One of the banners of the demonstrators, 1968 The 1968 Red Square demonstration (Russian: Демонстрация 25 августа 1968 года) took place on August 25, 1968 at Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia as done by the Soviet Union and allies of the Warsaw Pact that occurred during the night of August 20-21, 1968. The protest was held at the Lobnoye Mesto, a specific area built for executions, to avoid any violation of public order that could have occurred during the demonstration. They were sitting, as opposed to standing, to avoid any inconvenience to ordinary citizens; this did not help much. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library Russian abroad, Moscow, 19. ...
Lobnoye Mesto in the 18th century. ...
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ...
Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ...
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Unofficial Seal of the Warsaw Pact Distinguish from the Warsaw Convention, which is an agreement about airlines financial liability and the Treaty of Warsaw (1970) between West Germany and the Peoples Republic of Poland. ...
is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
August 21 is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lobnoye Mesto in the 18th century. ...
The protest
The protest began at noon as eight protesters ((Larisa Bogoraz, Konstantin Babtsky, Vadim Delaunay, Vladimir Dremluga, Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Viktor Fainberg, and Tatiana Baeva) sat at the Lobnoye Mesto and held banners with various slogans, including: Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz (August 8, 1929 - April 6, 2004) was a dissident in the Soviet Union (now Russia). ...
Vadim Dealunay, 1967 Vadim Nikolaevich Delaunay (or Delone, Russian: ; 1947-1983) was a Russian poet and dissident. ...
Pavel Litvinov Pavel Litvinov (Russian: , born 1940) is a Russian physicist, writer, human rights activist and former Soviet-era dissident. ...
Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library Russian abroad, Moscow, 19. ...
- "We lost our best friends" («мы теряем лучших друзей»),
- "Glory to free and independent Czechoslovakia" («Да здравствует свободная и независимая Чехословакия!»),
- "Shame to occupants" («Позор оккупантам!»),
- "Hands off the CSSR" («Руки прочь от ЧССР!»),
- "For your freedom and ours" («За вашу и нашу свободу!»,
- and "Freedom for Dubchek" («Свободу Дубчеку!»).
Additionally, a small Czech flag was held. Alexander DubÄek (November 27, 1921 – November 7, 1992) was a Slovak politician and briefly leader of Czechoslovakia (1968-1969), famous for his attempt to reform the Communist regime (Prague Spring). ...
Within a few minutes, seven protesters were assaulted by the seksots, loaded into cars, and handed over to the KGB. The Czech flag was broken, and the banners were confiscated. Since Natalya Gorbanevskaya had recently given birth, she was not made to stand trial. The other protesters convinced 21-year old Tatiana Baeva to declare that she had been at the Lobnoye Mesto by accident, and she was released soon after. Note: This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ...
Gorbanevskaya at the balcony of the library Russian abroad, Moscow, 19. ...
The KGB failed to find out which protester was holding which banner; therefore, all the banners were attributed to each protester, except for Tatiana Baeva, who was released. The banners were branded by the KGB as "anti-Soviet" and "false". [1][2] Note: This article is about the KGB of the Soviet Union. ...
Trial
Reaction to the trial During the investigation and trial, the defense revealed several inconsistencies in the accusations. One of the eyewitnesses declared that he saw protesters leaving the GUM, a large market in the vicinity, even though this market is closed on Sundays. Additionally, all eyewitnesses happened to be from the same military division, even though they all claimed that they ended up on Red Square accidentally. However, these inconsistencies were not taken into account during the trial. A number of different things are called gum: Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth Chewing gum, a type of confectionery Bubble gum Functional gum Gum base Gum industry Vegetable gums, natural gums: Guar gum Gum arabic Xanthan gum Postage stamp gum Gum Springs, Arkansas, a town Trees...
Lawyers for the defense had shown that there was no criminal intent in the demonstration held by the protesters [3], yet the protesters nonetheless received harsh sentences of up to several years in prison.
It was claimed by Yuly Kim that the sentences had already been written down before the trial [4]. Yuly Kim wrote the song "Iliich", which mentions the anger of Andropov and Brezhnev toward the demonstration and names three of the participants: Pavel Litvinov, Natalya Gorbanevskaya and Larisa Bogoraz.[5] Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Ю́рий Влади́мирович Андро́пов), (June 2 (O.S.) = June 15 (N.S.), 1914 - February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of...
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References - ^ Letter by Yuri Andropov to Central Committee about the demonstration, 5 sept. 1968, in the Vladimir Bukovsky's archive, (PDF, faximile, in Russian), http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~kaplan/IRUSS/BUK/GBARC/pdfs/dis60/kgb68-5.pdf
- ^ Andropov to the Central Committee. The Demonstration in Red Square Against the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia. September 20, 1968, at Andrei Sakharov's archive, in Russian and translation into English, http://www.yale.edu/annals/sakharov/documents_frames/Sakharov_008.htm
- ^ Talk by advocate S.V.Kallistratova in defense of V.Delaunay (Речь адвоката С.В.Калистратовой в защиту В.Делоне), in Russian. http://www.memo.ru/library/books/sw/chapt49.htm
- ^ Yuly Kim. Advocat's vals. (Адвокатский вальс), in Russian http://www.memo.ru/library/books/sw/chapt18.htm
- ^ Yuly Kim, "Ya sam sebe Iliich" (in Russian), http://www.bards.ru/archives/part.php?id=6188
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