Speech by Grigory Baklanov at the XIX All-Union Conference of the CPSU (1988)

XIX All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The conference hall.

The party leadership is in the presidium.

Behind the podium is the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Znamya", delegate Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov.

A brilliant speech.

He speaks about glasnost, freedom of speech and responsibility of the press, about the need for a law on the press (synchronously).

The hall applauds.