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Russia Marks Soviet Massacre of Strikers
by Naharnet Newsdesk 02 June 2012, 14:28

Russia on Saturday quietly marked half a century since Soviet forces brutally suppressed a rare protest led by striking factory workers in one of the worst massacres of the USSR's postwar era.

Twenty-six people were killed on June 2, 1962 when Soviet troops fired on the mass protest against working conditions and rising prices in the southern city of Novocherkassk.

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