In 1993, the Russian capital, Moscow, was filled with tension.
On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union. On December 26, 1991, the Supreme House of Soviet Republics of the USSR held its last meeting and declared that the Soviet Union ceased to exist, that the Soviet Union was officially dissolved, that the Russian Federation became the sole successor state of the USSR, and that Yeltsin became president of Russia. After that, Russia was full of chaos.
In 1993, the October incident, also known as the shelling of the White House, also broke out. On October 3, 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared a state of emergency in Moscow. In the early morning of the 4th, Russian government troops were ordered to enter Moscow. At about 8:00 a.m., dozens of tanks and armored vehicles of government forces surrounded the Parliament building and then attacked. Government forces engaged in a fierce 10-hour battle with fighting teams loyal to Parliament. Finally, Speaker Ruslan Imlanovich Hasbulatov, Acting President of parliament, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rutskoy, appointed by Parliament, and several generals who supported Parliament were arrested. According to official announcements, the bloody clashes killed 142 people and injured 744 others. Afterwards, the news media called it the "October incident."
These old photographs record the Moscow of that time, the messy Moscow. The photographs were taken by Gennady Mikheev, a journalist for a Moscow newspaper.
At that time, Moscow was really a chaotic world, but it only suffered the russian people. This also confirms the old Chinese saying, "Prosper, the people suffer, die, and the people suffer." ”