APTN - Moscow - 19 August 1991 1. Wide shot, Soviet tanks roll into Moscow as the Coup starts 2. Pull out, tanks on the streets of Moscow 3. Zoom in, Coup leaders press conference 4. Mid shot, Coup leaders Gennady Yanayev (right) and Boris Pugo 5. Wide shot, Muscovites erecting barricades 6. Wide shot, people chanting "Shame, shame' to the military APTN - Moscow - 15 August , 2001 7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union in 1991 "They (Coup leaders) were serious people ... smart people. They did it because their time was up, and they couldn't agree to that." APTN - Moscow - 19 August 1991 8. Mid shot, people trying to stop tanks 9. Wide shot, man throwing himself under the tank 10. Mid shot, Boris Yeltsin comes to greet his supporters 11. Wide shot, Yeltsin appeals to the crowd 12. Zoom in, Yeltsin speaks 13. Panning shot, people cheering APTN - Moscow -15 August 2001 14. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union in 1991 "He (Yeltsin) found a courage to stand against the coup, to lead the resistance, in fact. The situation was very tense than and no one could predict the outcome of it. One should give Yeltsin his due - he played a historical role back then, defeating the Coup leaders in their aspiration for power" APTN - Moscow - August , 1991 15. Wide shot, pro-democracy protesters outside the White House (Yeltsin's residence) 16. Mid shot, protesters erect barricade 17. Wide shot, trolley buses put across the road as a barricade 18. Mid shot, pro-democracy protesters 19. Close shot, same 20. Mid shot, APC breaks through the barricade 21. Same 22. Panning shot, burning APC 23. Wide shot, burning APC 24. Various, burning APCs and trolley buses 25. Various, crowd 26. Mid shot, Mikhail Gorbachev returns to Moscow after the Coup' defeat 27. Wide shot, Boris Yeltsin waves Russian flag STORYLINE: On the balmy day of August 19, 1991 shocked Muscovites watched the Soviet Army tanks roll into the Russian capital. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was at his seaside residence in distant Crimea when the hardline communist coup organisers visited him and urged him to give up power. When he refused, they put him under house arrest, announced a nationwide state of emergency and rolled tanks into Moscow. The group of his closest lieutenants, included the all-powerful Army and State Security and KGB chiefs. The result was an uproar across the Soviet Union, thousands went on to the streets to erect barricades in defiance of curfew orders. 10 years on, Mikhail Gorbachev says the coup organisers cared for one thing only - their personal well-being. He said he was too busy preparing the signing of a union treaty that would have given more power to the former Soviet republics and less to the centre, and underestimated the threat from some power-hungry members of his inner circle. On August 19, 1991, pro-democracy legislators gathered at the White House on the Moscow River, where the Russian parliament met. Boris Yeltsin, at the time president of the Soviet republic of Russia, rallied resistance from on top of a tank. He and the legislators were unequivocally opposed to rolling back the reforms put in place by Gorbachev. They called on their supporters to take to the streets and disobey orders of the coup administration. Several thousand people gathered outside the White House, resolved to fight if necessary After two days of tense stand-off on the streets of Moscow commanders of several military units decided to pledge their allegiance to Yeltsin and his government. After several short but vicious streets, troops loyal to the coup leaders admitted defeat and left Yeltsin and his supporters as winners. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/df87f74bd0c360814bcd0259aaec761c Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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