The civilian wall defending the Capitol of the Soviet Republic was invaded by an armored vehicle of the military coup d'etat on August 19, 1991. When it suddenly braked and retreated, three Moscow youths interfered; one youth jumped onto the armored vehicle and was shot dead. Two other youths were caught in the caterpillars of the armored car and crushed to death.
In the Soviet Union, after the collapse of Gorbachev's Perestroika revolution, a military coup was launched by communist conservatives on August 19, 1991. For almost six years after Perestroika, the citizens of the Soviet Union were in political and economic turmoil, struggling to make ends meet. It was the rallying of ordinary Soviet citizens for democracy that countered the military coup that took them back to the former Soviet Union. Temporarily, the military coup gained the upper hand in terms of armed force. It was the ordinary citizens of the Soviet Union who held back and crushed the Soviet soldiers against the military coup. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Soviet States (CIS) was reborn.
On the morning of August 19, an emergency committee was formed, Gorbachev was dismissed, and an anti-perestroika government was suddenly established. In Moscow, Soviet armored vehicles and tanks appeared in the center of the city. Citizens against the military coup gradually gathered in front of the parliament of the Russian republic, and on the evening of August 19, Moscow citizens barricaded themselves in front of the parliament. On the evening of August 19, Moscow citizens barricaded themselves in front of the parliament, and some of the occupying Soviet tanks turned to the side of the Moscow citizens. The KGB's special forces were also deployed to oppose the military coup. Against the tanks and armored vehicles of the military coup, Moscow women also stood up and pleaded with the soldiers to understand the citizens and not to shoot them. Gradually, the soldiers of the military coup turned on the side of the citizens of Moscow. About tens of thousands of Russian citizens gathered to defend the Parliament of the Russian Republic.
At 10:00 p.m. on August 19, an armored car of the military coup d'état went up in flames after being attacked by Molotov cocktails from the Moscow youth; at around 0:30 a.m. on August 20, about ten armored cars invaded the underpass under Kaliningrad Boulevard via the Sadovoye Ring Road. They rushed into the barricade and were unable to move. Several young men blocked the peephole of the armored car with blankets. When they tried to pry open the hatch, three young men were massacred by the soldiers of the armored car.
On August 20, at around 4:15 a.m., despite negotiations with the army high command, the citizens of Moscow did not leave the barricades of the Capitol, and at 10:00 p.m. on August 21, they notified the military coup d'etat that they would attack in the morning. The military coup ended when the conspirators fled to Crimea at noon on August 21, and on December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev dramatically resigned on state television, and the Soviet Union no longer existed.
