WATCH Metallica Ignite 1.6 Million Voices in 1991 Moscow as Soldiers Abandon Posts and a Broken Soviet Union Trembles in Freedom’s Roar. In 1991, at the Monsters of Rock festival, Metallica performed before an astonishing 1.6 million people in Moscow, just weeks before the fall of the Soviet Union. This was a direct, raw symbol of freedom. Watch as the crowd roars and military helicopters fly overhead, a scene so powerful that soldiers were famously seen abandoning their posts to join the ecstatic mosh pit, creating rock history’s biggest “earthquake.”….
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