Moscow, Russia, August 1991..Pro-Yeltsin soldiers with a portrait of Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin on their armoured personnel carrier. Pro-democracy demonstrators supporting Russian President Boris Yeltin take to the streets to defy tanks and soldiers sent by hard-line Communists, who imprisoned Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in an attempted coup which collapsed after 3 days..
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