Page 261 - 4331

th
6 article was cancelled: about the leading
role of the Communist Party. Legal basis of
political parties’ activity and supremacy of
republican laws on the territory of Ukraine
were secured.
October, 25-28 The second congress of the Rukh took place.
1990 They formulated their program goal – to get
the independence of Ukraine by peaceful
methods. The Rukh counted 633 thousand
members.
November, 1 The sales of industrial goods and provisions
1990 only by consumer’s cards with tear-off
coupons was introduced. Crisis phenomena
spread in the USSR and Ukraine: prices rose,
industrial production reduced, fiscal deficit
and inflation increased.
November, 14 V. Fokin was assigned the Chairman of
1990 Council of Ministers of USSR instead of V.
Masol.
December, 30 The monument to Stepan Bandera was
1990 destroyed. It happened in his native village
Staryi Uhryniv, Kalush district, Ivano-
Frankivsk oblast. The authorities started a real
war against new monuments to heroes of the
national liberation struggle.
November, 14 The Supreme Council, by the majority of
1990 Communists (“239+1”) agreed to put to
criminal liability Stepan Khmara, a people’s
deputy, dissident and political prisoner. He
was accused of assault at the militiaman. The
incident had been planned beforehand. S.
Khmara’s arrest put the beginning to a long-
lasting crisis in the Supreme Council.

259