Political Chaos Moscow
In September 1993 President Yeltsin dissolved the parliament and called for fresh elections. His market reforms known as “shock-therapy” were increasingly unpopular. Pictures depict a bloody and dramatic day in which armed groups of anti-Yeltsin insurgents lifted the siege of parliament (the White House in Moscow), sacked the mayor's office and launched an unsuccessful assault on the main television station. The rioters erected barriers in Moscow streets, near the White house (Russia's parliament building). Shots have been fired and several people injured after fights with security forces. Riot police used water cannons to disperse the crowds but were beaten back by a powerful and determined crowd of rioters.
During those October days the two enraged branches of power continued shooting each other with attack rifles and tanks. The video contains views of Moscow streets during withdrawal of the blockade around White house. Recorded are Left-wing radicals under gunfire, giving first aid to wounded, scenes of a pro-communist riot near the White house. The communist protesters are supporting rebel ministers occupying the White House. The rebels demand Yeltsin reverse his earlier decision to dissolve the conservative parliament. The rioters dance and sing communism song known as “International”.
We recorded: interviews to peaceful demonstrators and defenders of the White house, speeches of politicians (e.g. former President of the Supreme Soviet A. Lukyanov, Khasbulatov, Rutskoy, Zhirinovsky, Yeltsin, Gaidar etc.). Also shown are Yeltsin’s supporters with tricolor flags. The video contains numerous views of the White house, panoramas of the Red square Lenin’s mausoleum and Moscow streets. Also recorded: people climbing on tanks, calling the new regime “fascism”, burning wood and wires, rioters near the Duma, chaotic life of the Russians in 1993, beggaries on the streets, etc...
Scenes from the eighth page of the album below are filmed during the events of 1991 in Moscow.
