The conference of the People's Movement of Ukraine: a story about "extremism" in the party's ranks

The conference of the People's Movement of Ukraine: a story about "extremism" in the party's ranks

1989, 14 min

An "anti-Rukhiv" story, which refers to calls for "extremism" and "disorder" during the founding conference of the People's Movement of Ukraine, which took place in Kyiv in 1989.

The journalist also talks about the attempts to "impose" a yellow and blue flag and trident on Ukrainians, the need to dissociate themselves from "carriers of nationalist ideas" and the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, and "separatism and nationalism" that the public is "warned against."

Speeches: Pavlo Kyslyy, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Volodymyr Yavorivsky, People's Deputy of the Ukrainian SSR, Vyacheslav Chornovil, leader of the People's Movement, publicist Yevhen Sverstiuk, Leonid Kravchuk, head of the ideological department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

In the video: people in the hall and on the sidelines, Dmytro Pavlychko in the presidium, a patch on his sleeve "Rukh", applause in the hall, a rally, a trident on a banner, Ukrainian flags on the participants of the rally, Leonid Kravchuk in the hall, people in the hall, a rally on the street.