That’s when Yegor Gaidar addressed “Muscovites and all Russians who hold democracy and freedom sacred,” asking them to come to the White House to stand up for Yeltsin. It was exactly like 1991…We went down there…I went…There were thousands of us…I remember running forward in a crowd of people. I tripped and fell onto a sign reading, “For a Bourgeois-Free Russia!” The image of what awaited us if General Makashov won flashed before my eyes…I saw a wounded young man; he couldn’t walk, so I carried him. “Which
