"We then were afraid of nothing": 30 years ago in Volgograd passed the first mass meeting against the power

Exactly 30 years ago, on January 21, 1990 in Volgograd the first of a train of the subsequent meetings against the management of regional committee of CPSU took place. Boiled not only the city, districts were connected to protest actions Volgograd Region – Dubovka, Kamyshin also. Under squall of criticism the first secretary of regional committee of Communist Party of the Russian Federation Kalashnikov Vladimir Ilyich whom together with other members of bureau of regional committee inhabitants accused of abuse of privileges got. The largest meeting, on memoirs of eyewitnesses of those events, collected about 30 thousand people on Tsentralnaya Embankment. And already on February 10 all came true what was demanded by the holding a meeting –...