• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    There weren’t any confrontations like this that tturned violent during the fall of the USSR, for instance

    There actually were some brief instances of crowds firing rifle rounds at the Kremlin and getting return fire in response during the August 1991 protests. I don’t think it escalated though and I don’t think anyone died.

    Although these were pro-government demonstrators who wanted the USSR to remain intact.