How a 1965 Moscow protest demanding that the Soviet government obey its own laws helped launch the USSR’s dissident movement
Meduza · 6 Oct 2026

How a 1965 Moscow protest demanding that the Soviet government obey its own laws helped launch the USSR’s dissident movement

Sixty years ago, a protest in Moscow received almost no coverage in Soviet newspapers but helped launch the human rights movement. Several dozen people gathered in Pushkin Square to demand that the state abide by its own Constitution. They sought neither a change of government nor political reforms.


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