Contemporary Number 6

The Sovremennik movie # 6 tells about a rally held in the city of Samara in memory of the victims of the tragic events in Vilnius in January 1991. Samara city, 1991. The protesters shout "Hands off Lithuania!", "Gorbachev resign!" (sync.). The type of posters in hand: "The strength of the CPSU is in the ignorance of the people", "The CPSU is on trial", "Black colonels will not pass", "No to red fascism." A man with the newspaper "Rebel" in his hands. The deputy of the Samara City Council Vladimir Nenashev asks to honor the memory of the victims of the tragic events in Vilnius with a minute of silence (sinhr.). One of the participants in the rally calls to express complete distrust of the government, which, according to her, made the people slaves of the CPSU (sinhr.). A woman at the microphone reads letters to Boris Yeltsin on behalf of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Samara (sinhr., Offscreen). A police car is driving along the city street. View of the monument "Red Banner" (Monument to the fighters for the revolution), covered with snow, at the intersection of Krasnoarmeyskaya and Chapaevskaya streets. (The monument was erected in 1977. Architect - A. Morgun. Sculptors - I. Fedorov, A. Frolov). View of the Monument of Glory, opened in 1971. (Sculptor - P. Bondarenko, O. Kiryukhin. Architect - A. Samsonov). View of the building of the Volga Military District. View of the Izvestia newspaper in a newsstand. A man sells the newspapers "Rebel" and "Community" on one of the streets of the city. Women with cans in line for draft milk.

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Announcer V. Tumanov, editor B. Kozhin, sound engineer V. Popov