Russia

Coup 1991

During the Moscow Coup in August 1991, Communists sent tanks to the Russian capital in an attempt to overthrow the pro western president Michael Gorbatchev. Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the street to confront the tanks, and defend the Russian parliament, where Boris Yeltsin the countries future leader had taken refuge. For US News&World Report ...

photo : Klaus Reisinger

REF. K270406054 

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