"Strike Is a Spark"
How Hrodna workers "undermined" the regime in the 90s and August 2020. In April 1991, a strike took place in Belarus, which went down in history as the most massive demonstration of workers in the struggle for their political rights. It started from the regions and covered dozens of labor collectives in different cities of Belarus, Belsat reports. Strike in Hrodna, the Early 1990s. Photos from the Hero's Personal Archive The beginning of 1991 did not promise anything good to the Soviet Union, which was already bursting at the seams. Economic reforms in the process of transition from a planned...