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Perpetrators. Soviet Army, KGB. Motive. Quelling protests. The Novocherkassk massacre ( Russian: Новочеркасский расстрел, romanized : Novocherkasskiy rasstrel) was a massacre which was committed by the Soviet army and KGB against unarmed civilians who were rallying on 2 June 1962 in the Soviet city of Novocherkassk.
The 1962 mass murder the USSR covered up. 26 dead, dozens wounded, 7 executed and hundreds sent to jail. In 1962 in the southern Russian city of Novocherkassk, a protest by unarmed workers was ...
Nov 22, 2017 · On June 2, 1962, Soviet soldiers fired on a demonstration by workers demanding better living conditions and lower prices. The shooting took place in downtown Novocherkassk, an industrial city near Rostov-on-Don. More than 25 people were killed, and more than 85 people were injured.
Jul 22, 2007 · The Novocherkassk tragedy exposed the fraud and hypocrisy of the criminal totalitarian regime. On January 1, 1962, wages were lowered by 30 to 35 percent at the largest electrolocomotive plant in Novocherkassk (NEVZ).
Subject essay: Lewis Siegelbaum. On June 2, 1962 several thousand workers from the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Works (NEVZ) and supporters marched to the Communist Party’s headquarters in the center of the city to protest nation-wide price increases for meat and dairy products that had been announced two days earlier. Failing to heed a ...
The Novocherkassk massacre was a massacre which was committed by the Soviet army and KGB against unarmed civilians who were rallying on 2 June 1962 in the Soviet city of Novocherkassk. A few weeks prior to the massacre, workers at the Electro Locomotive Novocherkassk plant (NEVZ) had organized a peaceful labor strike.
At the rally, the founding stone for a future memorial was laid at the city cemetery. In 1994, an official investigation followed. During the 1990s and the 2000s, the Novocherkassk shooting, commonly referred to as a massacre or tragedy, was publicly discussed and commemorated, including by both Russian presidents, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.
