“Dear Comrades!” Is Andrei Konchalovsky’s Masterpiece Ideology smacks head on into love in the director’s film about the 1962 massacre of striking workers in Novocherkassk, starring Julia Vysotskaya. by Anthony Lane, New Yorker, Dec. 25 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/dear-comrades-is-andrei-konchalovskys-masterpiece
from Lane's review: "More than twenty-five people died in the demonstrations of June 2, 1962, in Novocherkassk, and more than eighty-five were wounded. And yet, for a long while, what happened there was expunged from the records. It unhappened... Not until 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, did the Chief Military Prosecutor undertake a review of the fatal events in Novocherkassk. Two years later, the bodies of the murdered, finally exhumed, were accorded a proper burial, though some have never been found." from Wikipedia: "June 2: The strike over the NEBF [Novocherkassk Electromotive (Electric Locomotive) Building Factory] continued overnight. In the early morning thousands marched from NEBF toward Novocherkassk's centre carrying portraits of Lenin and red flags; they were heading toward buildings of the city's council and executive committee;[13] though disorganised at this point the crowd was calm and peaceful. The crowd crossed the bridge spanning the Tuzlov river and was met by tanks commanded by Colonel Matvey Shaposhnikov who refused to open fire at the people; at the time many members of the CC of the CPSU, KGB, MIA and other high officials had already arrived and were present in the city. By the time the crowd reached the centre of the city authorities learned that they had passed the bridge unopposed - consequently deciding to quickly retreat into safety. As the march continued to advance toward the centre, more people started to join crowd, frightening the authorities further. The crowd attacked and looted several administrative buildings and police stations, sparking brief violence; demands to Mikoyan to come out and speak to people followed. At midday the army attempted to disperse the crowd using soldiers and armoured personnel carriers but failed and shortly after fired at the people, claiming the lives of 22 and wounding many others, including soldiers.[14] On the evening of the same day, two protesters were killed according to officials." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5091): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5091 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79396288/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
