still can’t wrap my mind around it: Were we defending freedom or participating in a military coup? I have my doubts…hundreds of people died…No one but their families remembers them. “Woe to him who is building a city by blood…”*4 [Silence.] And what if General Makashov had won? There would have been even more bloodshed. Russia would have collapsed. I don’t have the answers…Until 1993, I believed in Yeltsin…