On this day in 1993, a standoff between Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Congress of People’s Deputies turns deadly as army tanks roll into Moscow and open fire on the legislature. Nearly 200 are killed in hours of bloody street fighting. pic.twitter.com/82OTiKWupH
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