Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Velikanova ya zama mai rabuwa a 1968. A wannan shekarar ta shaida zanga-zangar Red Square ta 1968, zanga-zangar jama'a ta mutane bakwai kan murkushe gyare-gyaren Prague Spring ta hanyar mamayewar Soviet da Czechoslovakia
Ka yi haƙuri. Ta tafi Square tare da ɗaya daga cikin masu zanga-zangar, mijinta Konstantin Babitsky, don yin shaida a matsayin mai shaida a kotu idan an buƙata. Kamar sauran masu zanga-zangar an kama Babitsky a wurin. An yanke masa hukuncin shekara uku a gudun hijira a Yankin Komi na Arewa. Kwarewar Velikanova a shari'ar inda aka karkatar da shaidarta kuma aka yi amfani da ita a kan Babitsky, ya sa ta yanke shawarar ba za ta sake shiga cikin irin wannan shari'ar ba. (Ba ta yi ba, duba ƙasa, lokacin da aka kai ta kotu a 1980.)