Protest Unhindered by Moscow Police
About 30 members of a new opposition party drew a crowd of about 200 at a demonstration in central Moscow on Wednesday, while police and KGB security men looked on without intervening.
Last week in Leningrad, organizers said, police used their fists to break up a demonstration staged by the party--the Democratic Union.
Yuri Mityunov, a Democratic Union activist, said that Wednesday’s demonstration marked the anniversary of an incident in the city of Novocherkassk in 1962, when troops reportedly fired on crowds protesting food shortages.
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