Nevada - Kazakhstan

The film tells about the first mass meeting, which took place in February 1989. in Alma-Ata, where the demand for an end to nuclear tests was voiced. The 40-year test of nuclear weapons at the Semipalatinsk test site led to the tragedy of people living in the adjacent territory, as well as to the contamination of the environment with radioactive substances. OO Suleimenov, a poet, writer-literary critic, public and political figure of Kazakhstan, read at the rally an appeal to all public organizations of the country, to supporters of the movement for banning nuclear tests in the state of Nevada (USA) and demanded to stop nuclear tests in Kazakhstan. On the same day, the Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement was born. (Video recording). NDP “On February 17, an underground nuclear explosion with a capacity of up to 20 kilotons was carried out at a test site near Semipalatinsk. The test was carried out in order to verify the results of research in the field of the physics of a nuclear explosion. " Fragments of the meeting. NDP on the faces of the protesters. Posters in Russian and Kazakh. OO Suleimenov is speaking from the rostrum in the hall, the audience is applauding. OO Suleimenov calls for the unification of the protest movements in Kazakhstan and the state of Nevada in order to force the governments of the nuclear powers to sit down at the negotiating table and sign an agreement banning nuclear tests in all spheres. Those present at the rally elect the chairman of the Movement Against Nuclear Tests - OO Suleimenov was unanimously elected. The captain of the stockpile of the missile forces, an invalid of the Great Patriotic War, who lost five relatives who fell ill with cancer, is making a speech, demanding that the entire territory of Kazakhstan be freed from nuclear missiles. The woman speaks from the rostrum about the future of her grandchildren. The man talks about the consequences of nuclear tests for children. The man speaks Kazakh (sinhr. Translation) that thirteen of his relatives died of cancer, thanks M.S. Gorbachev for the right to tell about his misfortune. OO Suleimenov says that the Kazakh people are faced with the question of survival, sums up the results of the performances. A rally in the street (filmed from a building window), in the background - cars are passing by. View of the building in which the rally is taking place, on the street people listen to the speakers through the loudspeaker.

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