Russia’s parliament burning after being attacked by Boris Yeltsin, 1993

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  1. Russia‘s Supreme Soviet burning after Yeltsin asked the armed forces to resolve the constitutional crisis in the post-Soviet times, 1993

    There, I fixed your title.

  2. It’s still the reason why Forsyth – alongside several other authors – so loves to use Tamanskaya in scenes of fictitious civil conflicts in Moscow. “Icon” is probably the best example (and not a bad book, either – aside from, spoiler, Forsyth’s hilariously clueless Imperial British idea of England saving Russia by having all Russians happily accept and embrace an English prince as Russia’s new tsar).

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