Tanks of the Tamanskaya mechanised infantry and Kantemirovskaya armoured division on the streets of Moscow on the first day of the State of Emergency, 19 August 1991

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Soviet tanks moving through Moscow, 21 August 1991. The Wednesday was in effect the final effective day of the State of Emergency declared two days earlier.

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