‘Hi! There’s a military coup underway.’: 30 years ago, Communist hardliners attempted a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Meduza editor Valery Igumenov, a college student at the time, found himself behind the barricades.

In the summer of 1991, my friends and I were 20-year-old college students who had no intention of participating in our country's politics in any way, shape, or form. But on the morning of August 19, politics came to us - in the form of radio broadcasts and tanks on the streets of Moscow. It was a real shock, even in 1991, when the Soviet system was coming apart before our eyes. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/23/hi-there-s-a-military-coup-underway