Almaty is quite a violent city and another reason why they moved their capital city North when their President took office.
The commies win another battle. Now they are off to Ukraine to bring it back into the Soviet fold. Then the Baltic states and then the Warsaw Pact.
And so once again in history, a totalitarian government sqeezes it people to the point they revolt and then said government murders 164 of them and imprisons 6000.
This is what the US federal government did last January but only murdered 2 and imprisoned hundreds who, by the way, are still imprisoned.