MOSCOW: It was a desperate plea from then Russian leader Boris Yeltsin that drew Gennady Veretilny to the barricades going up around the White House in central Moscow.
“I wasn’t a supporter of Yeltsin, I wasn’t a liberal or a Communist. I wasn’t a party man,” Veretilny told AFP, recalling the events of 25 years ago when he was working as a police investigator.
“But the appeal by Yeltsin — freedom, democracy, all of these new words — the people really believed in this. And I believed in it too, of course.”
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Source: The News International
