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 can’t believe the comments to that article......
Of all the time periods to represent in a musical presentation, it just HAD to be St. Petersburg, 1917.
Oh, okay.
Yes folks, they think we are stupid.
The band will change their tune next week as they learn what the Ukrainian famine was like as Moochelle’s Free Lunch Program has eliminated one of its main components...Food. Starve like a good comrade...
How long does it take for that site to post comments? I left a couple but they don’t appear.......
You need to go post on local blogs and newspapers there. Tell the story
communist Martyrs High School?
The 75th Anniversary of WWII is coming up, I wonder if they’ll do a stirring rendition of the Horst Wessel Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYIU09o1gsI&bpctr=1348616903
or maybe the Panzerlied:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg8nzQ060_4&feature=fvwrel
or Marcha Erika, a Waffen-SS march:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiDTDWg0pUI&feature=related
Don’t get me started...
Lenin, Lennon... it’s all the same.
I do to. I detest it. It reeks of resignation, weakness and insouciance.
It is an loathsome to all that is American.
IT SUCKS!
Good gravy!
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