STEVE HURST, FMR. MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF: This uprising came after Yeltsin declared that the parliament was now out of business. And enormous crowds of people formed around the parliament in support of the anti-Yeltsin forces, a group of people that were made up of right wingers, old commies, who didn't want to see the changes that were going on in Russia at the time. Yeltsin sent tanks and special shock troops to surround the building, and it was obvious what was going to happen. These people were determined they were not going to give in. More and more armor surrounded the building. And it was an astounding thing to watch Russian forces firing their cannon at what had been the center of the opposition to this fascist coup against Gorbachev. It was almost a neck-snapping kind of a historical transition that had happened in this very place from a group of people, many of them the same, who were there in the uprising were, now, against, Yeltsin, the man they had supported. And eventually, Yeltsin did what he promised he would do and he sent in special troops a lot of people got killed.
CNN 20: Yeltsin Crushes Hardliners, October 4, 1993