Table of contents:
- 1. The overthrown Soviet symbol
- 2. Demonstration of thousands
- 3. In the middle of the action
- 4. Blocking the movement of tanks
- 5. Crowds of people in the store
- 6. Confiscated weapons
- 7. Rally near Red Square
- 8. Demonstration in Moscow
- 9. Patrolling
- 10. Anti-Soviet agitation
- 11. Funeral procession
- 12. At the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- 13. Tanks on Red Square
- 14. Leaders of the August putsch
- 15. The soldier waves the Russian flag
Video: Chronicles of a coup d'etat: photographs taken during the seizure of power in 1991
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
August 1991 was a difficult time when the country collapsed, foundations and human destinies collapsed. The photographs collected in this review are just a few fragments of the coup that happened a quarter of a century ago in the USSR and ended with the collapse of the Soviet empire.
1. The overthrown Soviet symbol
2. Demonstration of thousands
3. In the middle of the action
4. Blocking the movement of tanks
5. Crowds of people in the store
6. Confiscated weapons
7. Rally near Red Square
8. Demonstration in Moscow
9. Patrolling
10. Anti-Soviet agitation
11. Funeral procession
12. At the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
13. Tanks on Red Square
14. Leaders of the August putsch
15. The soldier waves the Russian flag
But literally 20 years before these events, life in the land of the Soviets was completely different. Evidence of this retro photographs taken by Soviet correspondents in different parts of the country in the 1970s.
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