Nation celebrates Revival Day

Sixteen years ago, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the former Lenin Square protesting the Soviet leadership's unfair approach to resolving Daqliq Qarabaq conflict. People began raising other problems as well. The demonstrations were suppressed some 18 days later, but the square began to be called Azadliq Square. The Azerbaijani people did not only change the square's name but launched a new movement there. The gathering of hundreds of thousands of people in Lenin Square marked the weakening of the Soviet Union. ANS