1986
- punkar7
- May 19, 2015
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Jeltoqsan, Kazakhs, December 16–19, riots that took place in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, in response to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's dismissal of Dinmukhamed Konayev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan and an ethnic Kazakh, and the subsequent appointment of Gennady Kolbin, an outsider from the Russian SFSR. Some sources cite Kolbin's ethnicity as Russian, others as Chuvash. The events lasted from 16 December until 19 December 1986. The protests began in the morning of 17 December, as a student demonstration attracted thousands of participants as they marched through Brezhnev Square across to the CPK Central Committee building. As internal troops and OMON forces entered the city violence erupted throughout the former capital of Kazakhstan. In the following days, protests spread to Shymkent, Taldykorgan, and Karaganda.
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1979-1990 Soviet involvement in Nicaraguan Civil War
1979-1992 Soviet involvement in Salvadoran Civil War
1977-1990 Soviet involvement in Ethiopia
1977-1991 Soviet involvement in Cambodian-Vietnamese War
1977-1992 Soviet involvement in Mozambican Civil War
1975-1990 Soviet involvement in Lebanese Civil War
1974-1990 Soviet involvement in Eritrean War
1974-1991 Soviet involvement in Ethiopian Civil War
1974-2002 Soviet involvement in Angolan Civil War
1969-1990 Soviet involvement in South Yemen
1966-1990 Soviet involvement in South African Border War
1960-1990 Soviet involvement in Nicaraguan Revolution
1960-1996 Soviet involvement in Guatemalan Civil War
1940-1991 Soviet Occupation and annexation of Estonia
1940-1991 Soviet Occupation and annexation of Latvia
1940-1991 Soviet Occupation and annexation of Lithuania.
1940-1991 Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
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