13.An armed Lithuanian volunteer guard wakes up as his fellow compatriot slept in Vilnius, Lithuania, on January 23, 1991. Hundreds of gunmen held vigil in the heavily fortified Lithuanian parliament while Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev urged all Baltic republics to prevent further violence.
13.1991年1月23日在立陶宛首都维尔纽斯，一位武装的立陶宛民兵在警戒中，他的同伴正在熟睡。数百名枪手在戒备森严的立陶宛议守夜，与此同时苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫警告所有波罗的海国家预防进一步的暴力活动。
14.Pall-bearers carry a flag-draped casket during a funeral procession through Vilnius, on January 16, 1991, for 10 of the 13 people killed when Soviet troops stormed the Lithuanian broadcast center the previous weekend. Hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians jammed the procession route to mourn their national heroes.
14.1991年1月16日，在一个横穿维尔纽斯的送葬队伍中，佩尔贝瑞肩扛着一个覆盖国旗的灵柩。上周末苏联军队冲进了立陶宛广播中心打死了十三人中的十个。成千上万的立陶宛人聚集在游行队伍里，悼念他们的民族英雄。
15.Hundreds of thousands of protesters pack Moscow's Manezh Square next to the Kremlin, on March 10, 1991, demanding that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his fellow Communists give up power. The crowd, estimated at 500,000, was the biggest anti-government demonstration in the 73 years of since the Communists took power, and came a week before the nationwide referendum on Gorbachev's union treaty.
15.1991年3月10日，成千上万的抗议者聚集在克里姆林宫旁边的马涅日广场，要求苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫和他的同事共产党人放弃权力，这是苏联建国73年来的最大一次反政府示威，这发生在戈尔巴乔夫同意全民公投的一个星期前。
16.A few weeks before the Coup, Mikhail Gorbachev stands surrounded by his so-called friends, all of them soon to be leaders of the August Coup against him. Vice President Gennady Yanayev, second from right, became the most visible of the Coup leaders. Here, they are lighting the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier outside the Kremlin wall in May of 1991.
16.政变前几个星期，戈尔巴乔夫和他的几个所谓的朋友站在一起，他们都在不久后八月的政变中反对他。从右数第二个是副总统纳季亚纳耶夫，是政变中最活跃的人。这里他们是为在1991年五月克里姆林宫墙之外的无名战士墓点燃火焰。
17.Soviet Army tanks parked near Spassky Gate, an entrance to the Kremlin and Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square after a coup toppled Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on August 19, 1991. Tanks rolled through Moscow towards the Russian White House, where Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Soviet-era Russian republic at the time, gathered his supporters after denouncing the coup.
17.1991年8月19日，经过一场推翻戈尔巴乔夫的政变之后，一辆苏联坦克停在靠近帕斯基门附近的地方，这是通往莫斯科红场内的克里姆林宫和罗勒大教堂的门户。坦克穿过莫斯科直指苏联的白宫在那里，苏联时代的俄罗斯的领导人叶利钦聚集起他的支持者谴责政变。
18.The leaders of the August Coup: from left, Soviet Interior Minister Boris Pugo, Soviet Vice President Gennady Yanayev, and Oleg Baklanov, the first Vice-President of the Soviet Defence Council. These men were members of the self-styled "committee for the state of emergency" which headed the coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Here, they gave a press conference on August 19, 1991 in Moscow.
18.八月政变的领导人：左，前苏联内务部长鲍里斯，苏联副总统根纳季亚纳耶夫，和Oleg Baklanov，苏联国防委员会第一副总统 。这些人是自己组织的紧急状态委员会的成员，这个委员会是反对苏联总统戈尔巴乔夫而成立的。1991年8月19日在莫斯科，他们举行了一场新闻发布会。加拿大华人网 http://www.sinoca.com/
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