Attempted coup d'etat in the USSR in 1991

USSR. Moscow. Fireworks on Lubyanka Square during a rally in support of democratic forces after the failure of the attempt by members of the State Committee for the State of Emergency in the USSR (GKChP) to carry out a coup in the country. The rally participants demanded the demolition of the monument to Soviet statesman and party figure Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. Andrei Solovyov, Gennady Khamelyanin/TASS