Heard on the news that people are still leaving this concert

Skipped school for two days to go to see MetallicA and AC/DC. It was pandemonium but when you are 15 it's exactly what you need. I'm 43 now my 3 yo daughter is sleeping in her room and I'm still there ... in Moscow... in 1991...

I WAS THERE !!!! It was the first in our country, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, a rock concert with the participation of Western bands. The entire USSR was there. People carried the flags "Chelyabiinsk", "Tallinn", and from all cities in general. I was lucky, I came at 10 o'clock in the morning, I watched people wake up around the fires, which arrived in the evening. Thanks to this, I was standing close, 50 meters, and almost in the center. The first cordon of the riot police was along the stage, the second was 50 meters away, so I was standing right next to the riot police, chest to chest. And empty bottles flew into my back and into the back of my head, which were addressed to the riot police. ) At the concert, there were about 100 wounded, mostly from riot police, the fights were terrible. The people were indignant that the riot police did not let them get closer to the stage ... The frightened authorities reinforced the cordon with some signalmen, apparently the nearest part of the FAPSI from Khodynka, these poor fellows were without armor and without helmets ... There were few sober ... It was reported that there there were at least 600,000 people! This is the most crowded concert of Metallica! The concert started at 14, first Black Crowes, Panther, E.S.T., all the while there was a carnage. ) Around 6:30 pm Metallica came out and the violence abruptly stopped!!! Fuck fighting, what can be divided, when - here they are, whose cassettes we listened to the holes all childhood, passed from hand to hand and copied from each other to a soapy sound ... and certainly never dreamed of hearing and seeing them live! Even the riot police opened their elbows and turned around to face the stage. The great power of art conquers any violence!!! You can also see on the video how some guys are standing and not shaking, but quietly listening. Here I was one of those. I oh...ate 200%. For me, this whole crowd ceased to exist. Just stood and listened, soaking up every sound, as if in tetanus. James later said in an interview that they were very scared when they saw a slam of 600,000 people, and with the participation of soldiers. :) They even wanted to refuse to perform, but they took the balls in their fists and went on stage! In this video, you can see that during the first song, James looks scared. What if this crowd rushes onto the stage, no troops could hold it back! They didn't realize that not only did each of these stoned, riotous teenagers not want to offend them, but on the contrary, we were ready to fight anyone to protect Metallica from all dangers! The great AC/DC came out at 20:00, I'm glad I saw and heard them, but it was more of a light rock'n'roll fan with their inflatable dolls and cannons scorching some kind of turnip. ) The Tushinskaya metro station, even with a great desire, cannot accommodate 600,000 people, so the survivors mostly dispersed on foot, people hung in clusters on the tram like in a chronicle about the war. And everyone had blissful facial expressions, just like children who were given the most desirable toy in life ... Tears flowed. If the word "epic" means anything, it's this. ) And Hatfield of all ... He said that now they would come every year, but their next concert in Russia took place already in 2007 at Luzhniki. And I was there too. ))) Dmitry from Belarus, 50 years old. And further. Metallica, if you ever read my comment, I just want to say one thing: we love you. Russians love you!

Probably the greatest 27 mins of metal ever captured on film. Damn.

and this is how metallica ended the cold war

James's voice was a perfect at this time

Imagine being Metallica and seeing an endless ocean of people, thats when you know you truly made it. All these people took that one day out of their lives to see YOU. They've planned for months to hear YOUR music. How incredible would that feel?

Just take a moment and imagine being Metallica there, on stage, in front of a million and a half people, thrashing out and being badasses in Moscow on the year the Soviet Union collapses. Sea of crowd, helicopters flying, flags of countries all throughout the world, representing the diversity of Metallica fans, even soldiers enjoying the music. All just seeing 4 guys jamming out. Must've been beyond surreal for the audience and a whole new level of craziness for Metallica themselves.

People wrote on their gravestone they attended this concert

As an American I truly love the Russian people. It is sad our politicians brainwash people into hating each other. I wish the US and Russia were closer. I have many Russian friends.

Божечки, я могу представить лишь как там было ОХУЕННО. Мне кажется это величайший концерт в истории. Мега эпично

I think we need this in Moscow right now.

In Mother Russia you do not rock the crowd, the crowd rocks you.

1.6 million people...holy shit imagine having that many people cheering for you!

О да! Одно из самых мощных выступлений Металлики! Я был на этом концерте!

11:20 Jason showing why he's the best backing vocals ever.

0:00 The Ecstasy Of Gold 0:59 Enter Sandman 6:24 Creeping Death 14:14 Fade To Black 21:45 Harvester of Sorrow

If I ever theoretically could travel to the past I would go to this

Боже , мне был 21 год и я только пришёл из армии. Как я был молод . 0.45 Флаг конфедерации . Это наша компания !!

*April 2022: Metallica needs to be sent back to Moscow ASAP*

I was at this concert in 1991. I have never seen so many people in my life before or after. Fans gathered from all cities of the USSR. The concert organizers did not expect such an amount. There was a threat to human lives when a crowd of thousands of people moving towards the stage began to put pressure on the first rows of spectators. The organizers used the police and the cadets, lined them up in chains, to divide all spectators into sectors so that the back rows did not move forward. But many drunken fans tried to break through to the scene through the police ranks. When they failed, they showed aggression towards the police and the cadets, began to throw bottles at them. The police responded with rubber truncheons and the incidents quickly ceased. The show was great, and we, the young guys brought a lot of emotions. But only now I understand that this show had a huge impact on the youth and was one of the elements of the controlled process of the hybrid destruction of our big country. The concert was free and we still do not know who paid for it ...

- It always amazes me that these choppers were flying right over the crowd. -

😮 Ох…. Батя мой был на том концерте, познакомился с моей мамой🎉живут душа в душу на даче ❤

AC DC, Metallica and Pantera in front of 1,6 Million people with free tickets...this is so insane

Imagine how it felt for the band members to play for such a huge crowd. Must have been the biggest thrill ever.

Imagine getting diarrhea and you're in the middle of that crowd.

I was 22 years old. Thank God I grew up in this period. Wouldn't trade it for the world!!

I'd give up a toe and a finger to be able to go back in time to see them and Pantera at this show. Fuck it. Maybe even a nut. This is beyond legendary.

World's greatest concert ever..

That has to be one of the best live performances ever.

How we all need to be together like this again.... hopefully one day ignore the higher power distracting us.. we are all brothers ✊️

1991, I was 2 years old. Just saw them last weekend, 2023, 2 nights different setlist! . It was amazing! I thought about this concert and all years that have passed!. I am lucky!.

I can’t believe pop artist in 2021 actually think of themselves as epic. Do they not see this 😍

This concert was such a fantastic moment in the collapse of the old USSR. All of the bands rocked that day...but Metallica owned the day. What a legendary performance.

Мощь! Качали тогда, качают и сегодня в 2022 году! Даже не представить какая громкость была на концерте, чтобы столько народа охватить 🔥который был просто в экстазе 😁

Goosebumbs, now i know again why i loved Metallica so much

1.6 millions people, Army singing and dancing, Army Helicopters watching the show,,, ONLY In RUSSIA

One of the best concerts ever...Period!

My dad was at this concert. He said when the concert was over and they were leaving, he couldn't reach the ground a few times and was carried together with the crowd.

0% Smart Phone 100% Enjoying the moments

USA flags, British flags, and others, Russians are cool people.

This show is crazy... huge energy on all arena.... best era of my life...!!!

1.6 millones de personas en el concierto. Se fue toda la ciudad a verlos, increíble.

Absolutely slaying the guitar in front of a crowd like that must be an unimaginable feeling.

Jesus, could you imagine what it must have been like for them to walk out on that stage? To see that many people cheering eagerly to see them perform? As an artist, that must have been the single greatest feeling in the world.

Contrary to all the usual "I was there at that concert" comments you get, I genuinely believe you were at this concert. Looking at the size of the crowd I'd be more likely to believe comments like "I wasn't there" to be a lie

Это моя глюбимая группа с тех пор, как я ее впервые услышал в 1988 году, друг привез из Москвы запись на кассете, и я не могу ни сказать это лучшая команда из всех существующих, энергетика, ударные, бас, отдельно соло, это и есть профи. У нас это Кино

This concert is being taught in history classes all over Russia

I feel safer from zombie apocalypse than millions of russians screaming "Die".

аж слезу мужскую пустил от красоты такой

If I got a time machine this is the very first thing I'd do

Metal will save the world. Metal is and will continue to unite us every where. You cannot kill the metal!

Imagine having to step on the stage after these guys just performed

Аудионаркотик самый настоящий! Безумно завидую свидетелям этого легендарного концерта, похожее вряд ли когда-то ещё случится - таких песен уже не пишут, да и у молодежи свои кумиры...

No mobiles, no cameras.

Мне 32 года , я помню как отец пришел пьянущий с этого концерта , и три дня мне разговаривал за металлику как круто они отыграли тогда в Тушино!!!

Это был глоток свободы чистый кайф

Iconic imagery. Amazing spectacle. Someone should make a good documentary about this event.

James Hetfield looks like a warlord leading his troops into battle

Russia: Where will you be holding your concert at? Metallica: The whole airfield

Metallica was playing in the PRIME TIME of their entire music career as their black album just released

Summer of 1991, I was 12 and I discovered heavy metal because MTV meant something at the time. Black Album was my intro to Metallica and now 41 years later I discover this treasure. 43Kouta thank you so much!!!

Jason Newsted, your intensity was the best. We miss you.

My God my wife and I had kids in that concert now they are all in university...btw I'm still on that concert

The greatest concert of all time ! 🌸

З0 лет назад, когда я впервые услышал Металлику я сказал сам себе, что это великая группа. И я не ошибся. Только это группа может собрать столько любителей. Вся Россия на ногах !!! Потрясающе !!!

The collapse of USSR was not because of weapons, but because of Rock Metal, Levi's and Marlboro.....

So much history behind this concert. To me, the best part is the audience who were totally glued to the stage instead of cell phones.

Look at this guy called Jason Newsted. How much energy he was giving to the band. I’ve never seen anyone like it. What a beast.

Imagine being in this crowd screaming and singing at the top of our lungs all the 5 songs with them 😐🤟🔥🔥🔥

Хэтфилд Молодой, в самом расцвете сил, лучшие годы. Позже он признал, это лучший концерт в его жизни. Обратите внимание на голос, по сравнению со студийной записью, эмоций намного больше. Он был в шоке. Такого количества народа, 1 600 000 никогда в жизни нигде не собиралось. Концерт внесён в книгу рекордов Гиннеса.

If someone says Metal isn't famous, show him this video.

BACK WHEN THEY WERE METAL GODS AND ALSO WHEN MUSIC HAD THE POWER TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER 🤘

I'm from Argentina, and i believe this is the best show ever, EVER.

Something like this could never happen in this age of music.

Я там был мне было 16 лет это был трэж!!!! Народ кидался бутылками из под пива в милицию попадало мимо в своих же те кидали обратно. Пули из бутылок летали над головами. Больше миллиона бухих. Тайно проносили пиво и что покрепче. В метро в Тушино давка выламывали сиденья на обратном пути с концерта. Ночные волки не помогли с порядком хоть и пытались, это было бесконтрольно, такого больше не было и не будет. Молодежи из Совецкого Союза дали вырваться на свободу, на целый вечер, это было очень круто. АС/DC там было тоже и еще пару крутых групп. Хэвю металл братва!!!!

What an EPIC concert!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my GOD....!!!! I'm a Heavy Metal hardcore-fan for almost 40 years and an Ex bass-player of Greek metal band, i have heard in my life all the greatest metal bands of 80's and 90's, and many more, i have seen many live concerts in Greece and i have to say that the Iron Maiden, the Metallica and the Judas Priest are the epitomy of the Heavy Metal Music worlwide. I LOVE METALLICA!!!!!!!!!! They have the momentum, the power, the inexhaustible energy and the pure passion of a true metal band. The sudden loss of Cliff Burton was very big and painful but the band continued the concerts energetically with more passion than ever and that's why this epic concert became. I think Metallica are for the Heavy Metal scene what the AC\DC are for Hard Rock scene. And that's why they are already in the pantheon of the greatest bands worlwide.

This had to be the most insane concert in this universe. You cannot even see the end of people it's just amazing. I can't imagine what y'all must have thought.

I can only imagine what it was like for those young people who had suffered under YEARS of repression and censorship. . To be FINALLY allowed to see a rock band . . LIVE! AND THEN. . . Their FIRST experience of raw, live rock is METALLICA. . At FULL BLAST. . In their prime! Fucking MINDS. . . . BLOWN!!!!!! The emotion would have been OVERWHELMING!!! It's like your whole life, the "emotion" and "freedom" dials were set at 1 or 2. . . Then you come to this show and someone turns the dials up to 40,000!!!

Wow. It's really nice that Jason's bass can be heard so strong and so clearly!!

¡Que pedazo de concierto me sugirió KZfaq de manera aleatoria! Potente, legendario y fresco, como si estuviera entre los asistentes tres decadas atrás.

THERE IS NO DOUBT THIS WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST CONCERTS OF ALL TIMES.

A war in Afghanistan, the Berlin wall, and the Chernobyl disaster were the undoing of the Soviet Union, but *Metallica* and *Billy Joel* are responsible for the introduction of rock and metal to the citizens. It was all over for the CCCP shortly after that.... Music is a powerful force of nature!

The power of Music! 1.000.000 people together in peace! PS: Fade to black still makes me cry

What a crowd...🎉 Unbelievable❤

I'm from Russia and I was there! More such will not be, sorry! I remember for a lifetime!

Much love to the Russian people from California. Don’t let our leaders keep us from rockin together!

Feels so good that I can hear Jason's bass in Harvester!

Самый лучший концерт в моей жизни

2:36 Robert Trujillo "Take me in the band"

0:58 Enter Sandman 6:22 Creeping Death 9:59 Creeping Death Breakdown 14:11 Fade to Black 21:42 Harvester of Sorrow

ESE FUE EL HIJO DE LA MADRE DE TODOS LOS CONCIERTOS ... EL MAS BRUTAL

Who’s still here on 2022 \m/ rock up plz !

at this moment.. all are hands raising up and cheering.. no phones. all are really enjoying the stuff.. 😎😎😎

Imagine the traffic once it ended

Ahhhh Lembro-me como se fosse hoje!!! Ouvia no LP de um amigo, sempre num final de tarde, curtindo um back antes de ir pra aula...kkkk Ele era filho de um general do exército e a mãe "preferia" que a gente curtisse, na casa dela...kkkk Eu tinha 19 anos de idade....kkkk

Tushino military airfield near Moscow, AC DC and Metallica headlined, the crown was officially 1,000,000 but unofficial estimates by the General in charge of crowd control was nearer 1,500,000. I'm British and was 20 in 1991 and spent the summers of 1989, 1990 and 1991 travelling around Europe. It's difficult to put into words the sheer feeling of optimism back then, across the Continent no, it wasn't the optimism of youth, it was more than that. The Cold War was petering out to its end, growning up during the Cold War.. There was always this underlying feeling of impending doom, just under the surface, like an unpaid debt you can't afford. So in part it was the relief that we weren't going to incinerate each other. But it was also the fact that half of Europe had lived under the grinding tyrrany and oppression of Communism (a source of utter incredulity to me is how western students who have grown up in an era of unprecedented economic and technological plenty, declare themselves Communists, even Stalinists. No one seems to have taught them the pile of 170 million corpses from Poland to Cambodia , not to mention the incredible heart rending destruction of lives through the terror of the gulag and secret police... Its all 'Nazi bad' when it should be 'ANY ideological utopian =very very bad').. Anyway, I remember travelling from Venice to Munich on an overnight train, in those days the long distance European trains had compartments which you turned into couchettes for sleeping. In July 1989 I shared a compartment with a Czech bloke called Martin. Communism was still in power in what was then Czechoslovakia. We sat up all night drinking beer and grappa and eating dried sausage, Martin spoke excellent English, was 20 years old and an engineering student. He'd saved for five years to go on a two week holiday to the West, he'd waited a year for his exit visa and had had to join the Party. I don't think I'd ever seen someone so enthusiastic about life, we all knew that the iron curtain was falling down and was on its last legs, Martin told us what it was like living under the communist regime. It was the first time he had been able to talk freely to ANYONE. Under communism, everyone wore a mask. You had to to survive, I've read about this before, the mask that people wore, hiding their true feelings and thoughts from everyone but your very closest family and even then speaking in euphemisms and whispers. The sense of optimism was because the wall was crumbling and everyone knew it. Watching this video, you can see in the faces of the crowd the joy of removing the mask, even for a few hours. 1,000,000 people. No trouble, no violence. Obviously we look back now, after 30 years and knowing the chaos Russia would descend into in the 1990"s but for that moment, there was pure optimisim.

Мальчики и девочки. Сегодня ровно 30 лет этому событию. Завидую каждому кто там был!

I was there. It was great!. We had some vodka and some special tobacco. It was fun. All bands were good. Then these guys began to play and it was like lightning and thunder!

Самый великий концерт в Мире...!!!