Moscow: Bullet holes mar the walls of the Red Presnya stadium, where defenders of the Supreme Soviet were slaughtered en mass by Boris Yeltsin’s OMON shock troops following the assault on the parliament building on the night of October 3-4, 1993.
People later covered the stadium walls with graffiti and artwork honoring those who resisted and died in the last-ditch effort to prevent capitalist counter-revolution.
Here is one of the many stories of the stadium, related by Russian journalist Natalia Raduga:
“This stadium, near Drujinnikovskaya Street, was a home to many terrible memories of mass executions of the Russian patriots in October 1993. Many Cossacks, militiamen, officers of the Army - all taken prisoner by the Yeltsin government for acting as defenders of the White House - were lined up and executed in cold blood along the walls of this stadium. Commemorating this tragic event, thousands of candles were lighted, and many fires were lit along the wall of these martyrs for democracy on Nov. 13, 1993.
“The wall of this stadium is a silent witness to a heroic act of a 75 year-old woman. Defying the bullets whistling over her head, Varvara Petrovna, saved the lives of eight executed, but still alive Russian boys. She moved them away from the Presnya Stadium’s wall of death to her apartment. There she bandaged their wounds, treated them as best as she could, and kept trying to help them find their friends and relatives.”
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