The 1961st state began massive purchases of grain from Canada, and one year later became fat and meat deficit soared in price by about a third.Later, as a result of acute food shortages in the USSR rose and dairy products.
unrest began in many cities of the state, but it turned out to be the most active city of Novocherkassk, in which the party program of food coincided with a reduction in wages in the biggest local plant manufacturing electric locomotives.As a result, workers took to the streets.They demanded talks with the city administration.
Novocherkassk massacre would not have occurred if not for the ridiculous negligence.Detonator became reckless phrase expressed by the director of the plant, which is the question of how the workers live, invited them to eat instead of meat pies Liver.This replica was random enough to powder kindled.
plant rose to strike
During the night all important city facilities - the telegraph, post office, city council and city committee - were taken by the authorities under the strictest security, the bank Novocherkassk hastily evacuated all money values.The garrison was put on alert.
Meanwhile, the area gradually filled with workers and members of their families who are in front of the Administration loudly demanded that it came to local leadership.However, this did not happen.
Administration panicked, asked the capital for assistance in suppressing the "anti-Soviet revolt."The city flew Mikoyan - the right hand of the General Secretary Khrushchev.In Novocherkassk troops entered, the crowd began to gradually replace the factory site.Around three o'clock in the morning begun remained in history as the "Novocherkassk", the shooting of demonstrators, which has long been mentioned in the press.
crowd of more than four thousand strikers, has been superseded, it gradually began to thin.The plant was completely under military control, the city imposed a curfew.
According to those who at that time was on the square, the crowd roared, and did not want to miss, not heeding the calls of the military.And then the soldiers gave several bursts of machine guns.They fired into the air, but the bullets hit a few boys who climbed trees with childish curiosity to watch the events.The bodies of the boys after and have not found.
Novocherkassk massacre entailed considerable sacrifices.Sixteen people were killed and more than forty - were wounded.The factory area has been literally flooded with blood that night quickly washed away, and the bodies hastily buried on the outskirts of the city in a mass grave.Relatives were not allowed to attend the funeral.
was arrested more than a hundred people.Two months later, a trial was held.Seven people, who, by the court, provoked the shooting in Novocherkassk, have been sentenced to death, the other seven - to life imprisonment.Although at the hearing, they tried to prove that it is not going to take any action, but only tried to negotiate, the judge did not believe them.
Novocherkassk massacre and the whole truth about it carefully glossed over more than two decades, and only twenty years later, the press began to appear relatively objective articles about these bloody events.And in the mid-nineties of the last century, the prosecutor's office launched an investigation, but those responsible for the deaths of civilians was never found.
