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Russia to revive May Day workers parade on Red Square
AFP ^
| April 30, 2014
Posted on 04/30/2014 7:53:12 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Russian workers will parade on Red Square on May 1 for the first time since 1991, organisers said on Tuesday, the latest Soviet tradition to be revived as a wave of patriotism sweeps the country.
"Crimea has returned to Russia and the trade unions are returning to the Red Square!" said Sergei Chernov, president of Moscow's trade union federation told a news conference.
International Workers Day, or May Day, was a key date in the Soviet calendar, instituted after the Bolshevik Revolution.
The celebrations became increasingly elaborate in the later years of the USSR, with party bosses presiding over ranks of marching athletes, soldiers, farm labourers and factory workers from the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square, awash with red flags.
In recent years, May 1 demonstrations have been relegated to a Moscow highway.
The decision to revive the demonstration on the iconic Red Square next to the Kremlin is the latest attempt to reinvigorate Soviet-style patriotism.
"This year the demonstration will also be anti-fascist, given the situation near our borders," said organiser Alexander Shershukov, president of the Union of Labour political party, repeating a common trope in the Russian media that neighbouring Ukraine has been taken over by "fascists".
Last year President Vladimir Putin used the holiday to revive a Soviet "Hero of Labour" medal that was handed out to especially productive workers by Stalin.
Organisers said they have invited Putin to attend the Red Square demonstration but have not yet received a response.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: communismkills; communistholiday; mayday; motherrussia; putin; redsquare; sovietreunion; ussr2
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Meanwhile, the US is having an economic slump ... and blaming the weather.
How very Soviet of us.
To: Tailgunner Joe
May Day--perfect time for Mother Russia to invade Ukraine.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Blame Obama. Putin is a populist and all these tantrums from US government about Ukraine are weakening pro-Western fractions of Russian elites. So their government is shifting left to cut Communist agitation inside the country.
To: Tailgunner Joe
This will be on You Tube I’m sure.
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:05:19 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Tailgunner Joe
This will be on You Tube I’m sure.
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:05:21 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Tailgunner Joe
Only a logical response to those Ukrainian Nazis pushing Russia around.
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:06:08 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
In fact you aren’t that far from truth with your irony. Ukrainian situation enables left wing in Russia.
To: wetphoenix
But the left wing in Russia never, ever would enable a Ukrainian situation. Got it.
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posted on
04/30/2014 8:17:46 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
~But the left wing in Russia never, ever would enable a Ukrainian situation. Got it.~
Have I really said it?
To: Tailgunner Joe
The Krauts have their torch lit parades and the Rooskies their mobile missile launcher drive bys.
Old world culture is so quaint.
To: Tailgunner Joe
Obama’s gonna counter it with a million man “Food Stamp Pride” march.
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04/30/2014 8:23:16 PM PDT
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mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: wetphoenix
No, of course not. You are not concerned with the left wing in Russia, or its Nazis, for that matter.
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04/30/2014 8:24:13 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
In fact I’m. I don’t like an idea of living under either commies or nazis.
To: wetphoenix
Then start acting like it.
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04/30/2014 8:30:08 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: wetphoenix
You seem pretty enamored of the Red-Brown alliance Putin has going.
To: 1rudeboy
What would you recommend to start with?
To: wideawake
What makes you think this way?
To: Tailgunner Joe
“Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the Century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory. Moreover, the epidemic of disintegration infected Russia itself” (Vladimir Putin, Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, April 25, 2005).
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04/30/2014 9:34:31 PM PDT
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familyop
To: wetphoenix
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familyop
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