Demonstration on November 7, 1989 in Leningrad (1989)

View of Palace Square during the demonstration on November 7, 1989 in Leningrad (top).

Drummers and trumpeters are leading one of the columns.

Demonstrators are carrying banners with slogans in defense of Soviet power and multi-colored balloons, the text of the Decree on Land on one of the banners, and the faces of the demonstrators.

Faces of passing brass band musicians.

Demonstrators are carrying banners with slogans in support of the power of the Soviets at all levels and multi-colored balloons.

A bunch of balloons flies into the sky.

Demonstrators on one of the streets of Leningrad are carrying portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and banners with slogans.

A column of schoolchildren with red flags is passing.

Banners with slogans are above one of the columns of the demonstration.

Soldiers are standing on the sidewalk in a cordon.

One of the columns of the demonstration is moving along a city street, a banner with the text of the Decree on Land is above the column.

Panorama of part of one of the demonstration columns, banners with slogans in support of perestroika, for democratic elections and freedom of speech.

Demonstrators carry banners with slogans in support of Soviet power and banners of Leningrad enterprises.