Russia: People Vent on May Day (baby Nazi, granny Commie, and more)

Moscow Times ^ | 05/04/09 | Alexandra Odynova

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Communist supporter Yelena Saratova shouting as she participates in a May Day march in St. Petersburg. About 4,000 Communists marched in Moscow.

People Vent on May Day

04 May 2009
By Alexandra Odynova / The Moscow Times
Tens of thousands of people took part in May Day demonstrations across the country, with many using the traditional labor holiday to criticize the government.

"We are marking this holiday against the backdrop of the global financial crisis for the first time," said Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov, whose party rallied about 4,000 supporters in Moscow for a march from Kolyzhskaya Ploshchad to Teatralnaya Ploshchad.

Mikhail Metzel / AP

A boy saluting at a DPNI gathering.

Zyuganov called for the government to consider an anti-crisis program prepared by the Communists. "The government must stop wasting money on big business and oligarchs," he said.

No violence was reported as organizations from across the political spectrum got a chance to air their views, including the banned National Bolshevik Party, which was prevented from staging several anti-Kremlin marches last winter. National Bolshevik activists marched with the Communists and carried banners reading, "Tomorrow belongs to us," the group said on its web site. The march was sanctioned by city authorities.

Mikhail Metzel / AP

United Russia and pro-government trade unions staging a Moscow march.

St. Petersburg police, however, broke up an unsanctioned National Bolshevik demonstration, detaining 20 activists with knives, pellet guns and hand flares, Interfax reported. Also, St. Petersburg police detained about 100 activists from anti-fascist groups for planning "a provocation" against the National Bolsheviks, Interfax said.

Some 300 Yabloko activists held an anti-government rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad. The demonstration was not sanctioned, but police made no attempt to break it up. The opposition Solidarity group also rallied.

Denis Sinyakov / Reuters

Riot police detaining a demonstrator after he lit a flare Friday during May Day demonstrations in central Moscow.

Dozens of activists with the ultranationalist Movement Against Illegal Migrants, or DPNI, gave fascist salutes and shook their fists at a sanctioned demonstration on Ploshchad Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava.

United Russia, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, together with trade unions drew more than 25,000 people wearing blue and red to the streets in central Moscow to support the Kremlin's policies, according to the party's web site.

Similar opposition and pro-Kremlin rallies were held throughout the country. Dozens of opposition activists were detained by the police at various unauthorized rallies.

A record-breaking 60,000 people participated in pro-Kremlin rallies across Chechnya, Chechen police told Interfax.

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Talking about Head Start....

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Russian Nazis...

These mooks are too stupid to realize that they would have found themselves at the receiving end of a German pistol sooner or later.

Here's what their beloved Nazis thought of them.

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The kid may be related to this guy:

[SkyPilot]

"Communist Supporter" is a great term.

I wish the MSM would use it as truthfully. We certainly have a lot of them.

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No kidding, someone must have forgot to tell the tyke how the Nazis felt about Russian Slavs.