How it was 29.05.2001 (2001)

The theme of the program is "Dissidents on Red Square". 1968. August 25, 1968. Moscow, Red Square.

Eight people - philologist Larisa Bogoraz, poetess Natalia Gorbanevskaya, linguist Konstantin Babitsky, physicist Pavel Litvinov, poet Vadim Delone, worker Vladimir Dremlyuga, art critic Viktor Fainberg and student Tatyana Baeva unfurled posters at the Execution Ground with the slogans "

Long live a free and independent Czechoslovakia!", "

Shame on the occupiers", "

For our freedom and yours!"

A few minutes later, the eight were pushed into "

black maroons"

and taken to Lubyanka.

Tatyana Baeva was released after a while.

The rest were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment on October 9, 1968. Today Litvinov and Dremlyuga live in the USA, Gorbanevskaya and Fainberg - in France, Delone died in Paris, only Bogoraz Larisa remains in Russia.

The seven's appearance on Red Square was the only collective organized protest against the USSR's invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Guests in the studio: Shakhnazarov Georgy - consultant of the international department of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1968. Bogoraz Larisa - participant of the protest on Red Square in 1968. Tatyana Velikanova - widow of Konstantin Babitsky.

Luboš Dobrovský – a correspondent for Czech Radio in Moscow in 1968, and the Czech Ambassador to Russia until February 2000. Yastreba Nadezhda – a witness to the protest on Red Square in 1968. Genakovskaya Nina – a senior investigator for the Moscow City Prosecutor’s Office in 1969. Gorbanevskaya Natalia – a participant in the protest on Red Square in 1968. Kim Yuli Chersanovich – a Soviet, Russian and Israeli poet.

Chronicle: Soviet tanks in Prague on August 21, 1968, a rally at a Moscow factory against the liberation movement in Czechoslovakia, photographs of participants in the action on Red Square.