MOSCOW, RUSSIA, SUMMER 1993
Images from an anti-Yeltsin demonstration on the second anniversary of the failed coup. Two months later Yeltsin ordered tanks to open fire on the besieged White House to force the mainly Communist deputies out

The Soviet flag is waved in front of a building being restored by an Austrian firm

The placard reads: "Down with Yeltsin and his mafia who have been robbing and selling Russia, impoverishing the working people"

The demonstrators called themselves the National Salvation Front

The placard reads: "Remember, blackguard, Stalingrad!"

Far-right thugs marched alongside communists

Right: Pensioners shuffle past the Bolshoi Theatre

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