Rally on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, August 25, 1991

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

August 25, 1991, Kyiv.

On the video: rally on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, people with blue and yellow flags, a portrait of Lenin covered in red paint, a poster "Ukrainian Republican Party"; a man addresses the people with a request to throw money into the box for the rally, then the following speak: deputy Oles Shevchenko, another deputy reads out a telegram dated August 19, 1991 from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR to the first secretaries of the Central Committee, regional and district committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine about supporting the State Committee for Emergency Situations; reads out a telegram from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine to local committees; calls for bringing Gurenko and other party figures to justice; the next man speaks out, talks about the need to seal the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, to preserve their archives; the next one speaks; near the makeshift rostrum they unfurl a red flag that was taken from the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, people shout "Glory! Glory! Glory!".