Martin Antonenko
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Uprising at Nowotscherkassk!
On July 1, 1962, the largest workers' uprising in the history of the Soviet Union began in the southern Russian city of Novocherlask!
The day before, head of state and party leader Nikita Khrushchev ...
... in order to cope with another acute supply crisis in the USSR, ordered the increase of all food prices by up to 35 percent.
At the same time, the Soviet leader decreed a 35 percent cut in wages.
There are several reasons why it is now banging in Novocherkassk: the city, once the capital of the Don Cossack region, which was autonomous under the tsars, is suspicious to the authorities due to its predominantly Cossack population and - to the detriment of the nearby city of Rostov-on-Don...
- and the population, for their part, is therefore not particularly keen on the authorities, especially the party cadres, who are well looked after in extra shops ("Kommersant").
Early in the morning, the workforce of the city's largest industrial company, the locomotive factory ...
... closed on strike ...
... and the workers move to the city center to protest ...:
Deputies of the locomotive workers rush to other factories and also call on their colleagues there to go on strike. These calls are almost one hundred percent obeyed!
In the late morning, the protesting crowd counts down to tens of thousands ...
... the local population (mostly family members of the workers affected by Khrushchev's measures) show solidarity ...:
The crowd shows Lenin pictures (they hang in every office, you just have to take them off the wall!) and red flags to make it clear to the authorities that you are not against the system itself, but only against massive price increases at the same time with wage cuts!
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On July 1, 1962, the largest workers' uprising in the history of the Soviet Union began in the southern Russian city of Novocherlask!
The day before, head of state and party leader Nikita Khrushchev ...
... in order to cope with another acute supply crisis in the USSR, ordered the increase of all food prices by up to 35 percent.
At the same time, the Soviet leader decreed a 35 percent cut in wages.
There are several reasons why it is now banging in Novocherkassk: the city, once the capital of the Don Cossack region, which was autonomous under the tsars, is suspicious to the authorities due to its predominantly Cossack population and - to the detriment of the nearby city of Rostov-on-Don...
- and the population, for their part, is therefore not particularly keen on the authorities, especially the party cadres, who are well looked after in extra shops ("Kommersant").
Early in the morning, the workforce of the city's largest industrial company, the locomotive factory ...
... closed on strike ...
... and the workers move to the city center to protest ...:
Deputies of the locomotive workers rush to other factories and also call on their colleagues there to go on strike. These calls are almost one hundred percent obeyed!
In the late morning, the protesting crowd counts down to tens of thousands ...
... the local population (mostly family members of the workers affected by Khrushchev's measures) show solidarity ...:
The crowd shows Lenin pictures (they hang in every office, you just have to take them off the wall!) and red flags to make it clear to the authorities that you are not against the system itself, but only against massive price increases at the same time with wage cuts!
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