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Sunday, October 5, 2003 |
The Guardian: "The Kremlin and western governments portrayed the unrest as a liberal regime suppressing angry communist hardliners and rightwingers. Yet 10 years after the bloodshed, in which at least 123 people were killed, Russia is exploding the myth that the crackdown was anything other than a putsch against Mr Yeltsin's political opponents.
There is now considerable evidence that Mr Yeltsin's men fomented the violence. Leonid Proshkin, chief investigator for high-profile cases at the prosecutor's office who led an investigation into the events of October 1993, told the Guardian in an exclusive interview that a column of pro-Yeltsin security men, backed up by six armoured vehicles, had accompanied Gen Makashov's group of armed protesters all the way from the besieged White House to Ostankino, clearly 'allowing them to reach the TV centre'."
After that, the dictatorial soak Yeltsin was considered by the West as the protector of democracy, pushing aside the fact that he had dissolved Parliament and attacked the Russian White House or Parliament building.
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© Copyright 2003 Hetty Litjens.
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