Always ready

The mayor of Moscow wants to restore the Soviet sign “Ready for Labor and Defense.” “It makes complete sense to think this through. This sign would become a criterion for assessing the degree of physical fitness of schoolchildren,” Yuri Luzhkov said on Tuesday at a meeting of the capital’s government. The mayor is perplexed why “some” are afraid of such words as “pioneer”, “GTO”. “For some reason they believe that they are connected with the communist past.” And, truly, if times are returning, then the symbols, along with Soviet rhetoric, will return. A natural cultural process.