Before the end of the empire
Photo: protest action in Khabarovsk / Vlad Dokshin, Novaya Gazeta As in 1989, people do not want sausage, but freedom. A tired government, a massive desire for change and a demand for citizens to be able to influence what is happening in the country, combined with a television that has lost trust - this is exactly what we already saw three decades ago. This was followed by the loss of the Communist Party's long-term monopoly on power and the collapse of the Soviet empire.