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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The protests in Kazakhstan

Monday Jun 19, 1989
Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan

In Kazakhstan on June 19, 1989, young men carrying guns, firebombs, iron bars and stones rioted in Zhanaozen, causing a number of deaths. The youths tried to seize a police station and a water-supply station.


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