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On 1 June 1989 the Communist Party admitted that former prime minister Imre Nagy, hanged for treason for his role in the 1956 Hungarian uprising, was executed illegally after a show trial. [52] On 16 June 1989 Nagy was given a solemn funeral on Budapest's largest square in front of crowds of at least 100,000, followed by a hero's burial. [53]
Whole Year: Revolutions of 1989. January to 15 February – Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. [2] 6 February — Negotiations between the Polish government and the union ‘Solidarity’ opened. 27 March – 1989 Soviet Union legislative election: first contested elections in Soviet History. [3]
There was a sharp increase in economic inequality between 1988/1989 and 1993/1995, with the Gini ratio increasing by an average of 9 points for all former socialist countries. [44] These problems led to a series of crises in the 1990s, which nearly led to the election of Yeltsin's Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov , in the 1996 ...
With the government and CPSU shocked by the riots, on 22 June 1989, as a result of the riots, Gorbachev removed Gennady Kolbin (the ethnic Russian whose appointment caused riots in December 1986) as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan for his poor handling of the June events and replaced him with Nursultan Nazarbayev, an ethnic ...
The Singing Revolution [a] was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.
Resolution of the Baltic Assembly on the Events in Georgia on April 9 1989; The 9 April 1989 Tragedy and the Abkhazian Question; A Rustavi 2 documentary about the 1989 events (includes original footage) Report of the Sobchak's commission of inquiry (in Russian) Archived 2018-08-19 at the Wayback Machine; Eye of the Storm: Soviet Georgia Revolution.
Aftermath of the Revolutions of 1989 (2 C, 3 P) B. Breakup of Yugoslavia (5 C, 15 P) D. Dissolution of the Soviet Union (8 C, 91 P) O.
The 1989 October Revolution Parade was a parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on 7 November 1989 to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the socialist revolution in the Russian Empire in 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev (the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) and the Soviet leadership watched the parade from Lenin's ...