ON 3 May Union published an Shooting in Liberty Square". and policeiten suddenly appeared and died on the road. c/0 happened Chicago in ibe happened on 1 May .. Soldiers rushed into Liberty They Struck down by volleys, people Tell and died on the roud. Thi happened the yesterday in San Salvador, one of America's estates — the state of El Salvador. This happened on 1 May.
CLOSER 1977 Pravda entitled They DETENCE volleys people fell This years ago. in MASSACRE USA, This and policemen members Square, shoot the partici peasanls.
Mikoyan.
dily regional CPSU. this task. brilliantly But when caused by the fact streets of demoustration. non-Russian TRIALS dairy coDarrived cartridest his could A strike was save bullets.
demonstrators Soviet newspaper singie was blocked by machine guns UULSEE directed at the CHHOTESE - at the feet of the Lenin monument h arrests square and in the adjacent _ names.
This happened 15 years ngo on 2 June 1962 in a country The crushing of this workers' directed of the Central Committee of the CPSU Jed by men two members of the Politburo Frol Kozlovy and Anastas women The direct leadership of the was General Pliev, commander of district and Basovy, the First Rostor committee of the been And they performed •problem occurred on the square about that the soldiers from the local garrison refused to shoot at the unarmed them (2). people — General Pliey quickiy exchangod them for soldiers THE STAY from other parts of the district. And these carried out the lask, were After they performed this exchanged for other soldiers. Why look at unarmed peacefui people who have been killed and maimed by your hand?
Since the new forces who were given explosive allowed nuthorities so claim tater tbat the murders on the streets of the city had been carried out by enemy agents, since the Sovie Army itself did not have guns containing cartridges of explo Neither Pravda nor any other ward about Riunce; authorities sook measures in the tion front hecoming known and extingulab any local rumours.
Novocherkass was surrounded by the anny, No-one was allowed in or out of the city. Indiscriminate searches and carried out, according to a secret list of The bodies of the dead and wounded were isken away. To The families of the dead and wounded were moved to distant towns.
A series of trials took place. Two of them were. *орел (entrance gained ouly by a past). At one of the trials nine Were charged sentenced lo deatb) and tRo (given years itiprisonment cach).
CORPSES People were so terrorised and intimidated, that if it had not for SOCTATALEILL. courageous work of Alexander Solchenitsyn, who sought out and accumulated intormation the Novocherkassk events, the world even today would not have known about The exact number of people who died is still unknown. But 30-80 corpses had remained on the square itself. I continues to be a secret as to how many died, killed after being wounded and bow many were executed aller a trial.
These deaths most not be | forgotten, nor forgiven:
We appent that 3 June le mary of these against the bloody terror of the authorities, Dare: May 1977Place: Moscow Signatures: Bukhmin.
Ventslova. Z.Grigurenko. Grigorenko. K. Garuskas: Lavut. Landa, Lukeuskalle.
Sakhurov.
Slepuk V.
Finkebtein.
Members of the Moscow, Ukrainian and Lithuanian Helsinki Monitoring Groups.
Trunslution by Helen Jamieson.
Huikers are paid scoording to th Valume 3 Solzheriteyn, Gulag Archipolago,
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