Table of contents:
- 1. Demand to secede from the USSR
- 2. Huge queues in almost empty stores
- 3. Riding a discarded statue
- 4. The last day of the existence of the USSR
- 5. Moscow family in front of the TV
- 6. At a concert of foreign artists
- 7. Gorbachev's press conference
- 8. The President of Russia in an armored car
- 9. USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev
- 10. While patrolling Red Square
- 11. Supporters of the President of Russia
- 12. Blocking tanks
- 13. Crowds of people block the way
- 14. Celebrations after the failure of the coup
- 15. KGB employee handing over weapons
- 16. Yeltsin speaking on the podium
- 17. Funeral of the victims of the coup
- 18. Classified document
- 19. Opening of the session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
- 20. Popular unrest
- 21. Road barricades
- 22. Running in front of a moving tank
- 23. Insurgents Sleeping with Weapons
- 24. Voting for the withdrawal of Ukraine from the USSR
- 25. Removing the barricades near the White House
- 26. Inspection of confiscated weapons
Video: The August putsch: chronicles of a coup d'état and an unconstitutional takeover of power in 1991
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
On August 19, 1991, the August putsch began, the purpose of which was to prevent the collapse of the USSR. The next day, it was planned to sign an agreement on the creation of the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics. But a force appeared that opposed this, and the result of the coup was an accelerated process of the country's disintegration. In our review there are photographs of those days.
1. Demand to secede from the USSR
2. Huge queues in almost empty stores
3. Riding a discarded statue
4. The last day of the existence of the USSR
5. Moscow family in front of the TV
6. At a concert of foreign artists
7. Gorbachev's press conference
8. The President of Russia in an armored car
9. USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev
10. While patrolling Red Square
11. Supporters of the President of Russia
12. Blocking tanks
13. Crowds of people block the way
14. Celebrations after the failure of the coup
15. KGB employee handing over weapons
16. Yeltsin speaking on the podium
17. Funeral of the victims of the coup
18. Classified document
19. Opening of the session of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
20. Popular unrest
21. Road barricades
22. Running in front of a moving tank
23. Insurgents Sleeping with Weapons
24. Voting for the withdrawal of Ukraine from the USSR
25. Removing the barricades near the White House
26. Inspection of confiscated weapons
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