Students help each other to tie a headband with the words Volya (Freedom). On Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital, more than 50 students recreated the events of the 1990 "Revolution on granite". The Revolution on Granite was a campaign of large-scale actions of non-violent civil disobedience organised in advance by Ukrainian youth, mostly students. The protests lasted from 2 to 17 October 1990 in the Ukrainian SSR. The core of the protest events was a student hunger strike on October Revolution Square in Kiev (now called Maidan Nezalezhnosti). The protests ended with the signing of a
Students help each other to tie a headband with the words Volya (Freedom). On Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital, more than 50 students recreated the events of the 1990 "Revolution on granite". The Revolution on Granite was a campaign of large-scale actions of non-violent civil disobedience organised in advance by Ukrainian youth, mostly students. The protests lasted from 2 to 17 October 1990 in the Ukrainian SSR. The core of the protest events was a student hunger strike on October Revolution Square in Kiev (now called Maidan Nezalezhnosti). The protests ended with the signing of a resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, which guaranteed the fulfilment of the protesters' demands.
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