NBC Nightly News - 1991-08-22
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[0:02] Time tonight at 7:30.
[0:11] The founder of the Soviet secret police.
[0:13] His statue comes down as the people
[0:15] celebrate their victory. Mikall
[0:17] Gorbachoff returns to Moscow tired and
[0:19] angry but still defending a place for
[0:22] the Communist Party.
[0:24] [Music]
[0:28] This is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:30] Brokoff.
[0:32] >> Reporting tonight from NBC News
[0:34] headquarters in New York.
[0:36] >> Good evening. Mikuel Gorbachoff is back
[0:38] in the Kremlin tonight. Still alive,
[0:40] still in office, but his power and his
[0:42] future seem to be significantly
[0:44] diminished as he begins the process of
[0:46] working that out with Boris Yelson and
[0:48] the others who saved him. The people now
[0:51] have reclaimed the streets of their
[0:52] country. We'll begin tonight with NBC's
[0:54] Jim Aseda in Moscow.
[0:58] >> First, defenses came down. The last
[1:00] tanks loyal to Forest Yeltson abandoned
[1:02] positions they'd held for 4 days. For
[1:05] those they had protected, the first sign
[1:07] the coup had really failed. The
[1:09] barricades came down. Mikarov had
[1:12] returned, but the people around the
[1:14] Russian Parliament building were more
[1:15] interested in seeing their real hero,
[1:17] Yeltson.
[1:19] Already something was stirring. Another
[1:23] the coup leaders, the KGB, those were
[1:25] the dark forces in our country. Now
[1:27] we've beat them.
[1:29] >> A dragon had been slain. An angel
[1:32] reported lifted.
[1:34] >> Now we'll be able to drive.
[1:38] >> This is the real revolution. The
[1:40] revolution of 1991.
[1:43] >> And like all revolutions, it found
[1:45] release in the streets. Crowds kicked in
[1:47] doors of KGB offices sealed off
[1:50] communist party cells.
[1:53] The flag of the new revolution, the
[1:55] triri