The 2nd Congress of USSR People's Deputies (December 12-24, 1989). The delegates discussed the abolition of the Soviet Constitution's Article 6 on the guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People's Deputy Gennady Filshin, DSc (Economics), speaks. Background left: Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Far right: Anatoly Lukyanov, First Deputy Speaker of the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament).
