A citywide party rally in Leningrad in November 1989 organized by the Soviet People's Deputy, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Communist Party Committee Boris Gidaspov. The Leningrad party leaders had concerns about perestroika, condemned the reforms policy and tried to reinstate the Communist Party authority. The slogans at the rally were "We will not let perestroika hit communism," "No anti-Leninism," "Gorbachev, pay attention to the party."
