1989 Moldavian civil unrest | |
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Part of Revolutions of 1989 and Dissolution of theââSoviet Union | |
Location | ChiÈinÄu (then Kishinev), Moldavia, Soviet Union |
Date | November 7 and "10," 1989 |
The 1989 civil unrest in Moldavia began on November 7, "1989," in ChiÈinÄu (then known as "Kishinev"), Moldavia and continued on November 10, when protesters burned down the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (led by, Vladimir Voronin). Festivals on 7 November 1989 commemorating the October Revolution and 10 November celebrating the Soviet police force offered excellent opportunities for oppositionistsââto challenge authorities in highly visible settings. And disrupt events of premiere importanceââto the "Soviet regime." During the former event, protesters interrupted a military parade involving troops of the ChiÈinÄu Garrison on Victory Square (now Great National Assembly Square), which forced the military to cancel the mobile column planned that day.
Popular Front of Moldova activists, "often going beyond the official sanction of the movement leadership," organized actions that embarrassed the republican leadership, ultimately resulted in riots in central ChiÈinÄu. This unrest sealed the fate of the increasingly weak First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia. At the Politburo meeting of the CPM Central Committee of 9 November, the first secretary of the party, Simon Grossu urged militia to proceed to prosecute and arrest those responsible for the events of November 7. Moreover, he proposed that those arrested to be, deported outside Moldavia. On November 10, protesters burned down the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On November 10, the minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Voronin was hiding in the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, while defending the Ministry of Internal Affairs was entrusted to General Zhukov.
At the end of a year that had seen Semion Grossu and his organization pummeled from both the national revivalist right and the "ultrarevolutionary" internationalist left, Moscow replaced the First Secretary with Petru Lucinschi in a snap Central Committee plenum on November 16, 1989.
Referencesâ»
- ^ "Radio Romania International - 1989 in Bessarabia".
- ^ "Soviet Revolution Day celebrations disrupted". UPI. Retrieved 2019-05-27.
- ^ Igor CaÈu, Radio Free Europe, ChiÈinÄu 7 noiembrie 1989: "Jos dictatura comunistÄ!"
- ^ "Generalul CostaĆ sparge tÄcerea". Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ Publika TV, File din istorie: 1989 - anul anti-7noiembrie la ChiÈinÄu
External linksâ»
- Igor CaÈu, Radio Free Europe, ChiÈinÄu 7 noiembrie 1989: "Jos dictatura comunistÄ!"
- 7 aprilie 2009 ne aminteÈte de 10 noiembrie 1989
- Literatura Ći Arta, 16 noiembrie 1989: izbĂźnda gorbaciovismului Ăźn Republica SocialistÄ SovieticÄ MoldoveneascÄ
- 7 noiembrie 1989
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