Posted on 09/25/2012 2:16:21 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
A Pennsylvania high school marching band has caused outrage by commemorating the Russian Revolution in a halftime performance - brandishing red flags, military uniforms, hammers and sickles.
Historians and parents of students at New Oxford High School have lambasted the choice of entertainment which remembers an event that gave way to Communism and the deaths of millions.
Even though the school's colours are red, white and blue, they have adopted the theme of 'St Petersburg: 1917' for their halftime shows, including one last Friday, Fox News reported.
'It was Glee meets the Russian Revolution,' a concerned parent told Fox. 'They had giant hammers and sickles and they were waving them around. 'There is no reason for Americans to celebrate the Russian revolution. I am sure the millions who died under Communism would not see the joy of celebrating the Russian revolution by a school 10 miles from Gettysburg.'
Paul Kengor, the executive director for the Center for Vision & Values at Pennsylvania's Grove City College, added that he originally thought the performance was a joke.
'This is surreal,' he said. 'The Bolshevik Revolution launched a global Communist revolution that from 1917 through the 1990s was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people.
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I was thinking that the parents may not have know ‘the big’ picture.. and they, for sure, had no idea about the uniforms :p
Congratulations, Pennsylvanians. YOUR tax dollars support the petty bolsheviks in YOUR school system teaching YOUR children.
No one wants to take responsibility, like this President it’s never their fault.
How can anyone send their kids to a socialist school system? That is crazy! Did they teach these kids about the millions of suburban people starved and murdered by these great revolutionaries? Omg...
And to complete the show, the band instructor was executed for crimes against the state.
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Next week: Holocaust Halftime!
Hitler Youth slogan.... “FORWARD”
What the hell?
I’m agreeing with STUNNED SILENCE.
How did the show ever reach performance without someone saying SOMETHING!??!?!
well, that’s my question
Yeah superintendent Rebecca, we can appreciate the music... as a one-off piece during a band performance. That’s educational.
Carrying the symbol and wearing the uniforms is something the hell else entirely and you know it!
My niece noticed the same thing in college students during her year abroad. She was surprised foreign students were proud of their countries. She said the Americans were proud of their states or cities but not America.
Yes they are all public school educated.
If my kid were in that school I would probably be in jail for kicking someone’s A$$!!
Apparently Bolshevism is such the rage right now, there is no longer any pretense at hiding it. It’s quite alright that I lost countless relatives in the Siberian death camps, thanks to the murdering goons. That 6-7 million Ukrainians were tortured and murdered in one winter alone. They were mostly Christians, so who cares (in this new world order of hate-Christians).
What’s next, a celebration of Hitler’s favorite music? After all, he did listen to some nice music. What’s the matter with reenacting it? /s
I’m pretty much going to blow my lid right now.
Useful idiots!
Kids just getting ready for Obama’s second term.
They really will need to put up an international firewall, to prevent all this icky 'information' and pesky 'facts' from getting to the proles in the US.
“It is what it is.”
Please, someone strike thus sentence from the language.
“The climax was the execution of the Romanov’s ?”
Probably just some gun owner down the street. Much easier to find and teaches the same lesson.
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