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The Novocherkassk massacre How the Soviet authorities murdered peaceful demonstrators in 1962 and kept it a secret for decades, until the victims fought backMeduza18:53, 22 november 2017On 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. For decades, the Soviet authorities kept the incident a secret, executing another seven demonstrators and sentencing another 100 participants to 10 years in prison. The truth about the Novocherkassk massacre only started leaking to the media during Perestroika, and a formal investigation didn’t occur until after the collapse of the USSR. Meduza special correspondent Daniil Turovsky visited Novocherkassk and met with people who have guarded the tragedy’s memory for 55 years. Turovsky also studied the criminal records, books, films, and archival documents related to the massacre, in order to retell the full history of the incident, from the terrible events on the day of the shooting to the efforts decades later to find the victims’ graves and bury their remains properly.Read more at: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/11/23/the-novocherkassk-massacre
