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"Lenin" is alive!
Among the participants in the communist demonstration, citizens with petty-bourgeois habits were seen
The series of November marches continued in Russia . Communists, who boycotted the new national holiday, National Unity Day, over the weekend, yesterday celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of the October Revolution. Having passed through the center of the capital, they staged a rally on Teatralnaya Square, where, according to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, about 7 thousand people gathered. Most of those gathered at this “red” march were like-minded people of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation leader Gennady Zyuganov, who stated that “The October Revolution is the largest event that has occurred on the planet in several centuries.” “Attempts today to rewrite history and humiliate October are groundless and hopeless,” Mr. Zyuganov argued. By the way, the leader of the Communists apologized in advance to Muscovites for the inconvenience caused by the festive demonstration during the working week - the authorities allowed the march from Pushkinskaya to Teatralnaya Square. “I hope that all Muscovites and car enthusiasts, without exception, will understand with understanding that traffic in the center of Moscow will be temporarily blocked, because we do not celebrate such an anniversary very often,” the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation told Interfax.However, the current leader of the Communist Party himself could not deny that even demonstrations in honor of the revolutionary anniversary are not only a festive procession, but also a kind of commercial event. In particular, the petty-bourgeois essence was clearly demonstrated before the start of the march by a citizen portraying the former leader. Shortly before the start of the march, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin walked along Theater Square, already decorated with red banners. He stopped at a group of policemen who were supposed to be standing in a cordon, and spoke to them about something. One of the policemen, after listening to the leader of the world revolution, approached the tent and bought him a cup of coffee. Lenin, with whom for 50-100 rubles. Anyone can take a photo, happily accepted coffee from the hands of an security officer.
However, there were few Lenin doubles, and even those with opportunistic habits, in the ranks of the demonstrators, but in the crowd there were often old men with long beards and hair, clearly trying to resemble Karl Marx, and citizens with an obviously bushy Budennov mustache. Pensioners in unison scolded the government and President Putin personally. “ There is no holiday on November 4th . This was all done to distract the attention of the people. Putin betrayed the noble cause of the KGB, he serves the bourgeoisie, not the people,” one of the “budyonny” told a Vremya Novostei correspondent.
There were also young people among the marchers. “I went to school and saw social inequality: children whose parents are cool have everything, but the children of ordinary engineers have nothing. I will fight for socialism!” - promised the Vremya Novostey correspondent from MAI student Pyotr, dressed in a commissar's uniform and holding the red banner of the revolution in his hands.
A group of drunken teenagers, who obviously happened to be at the march by accident, were shouting something about the Spartak football club. But they got tired of it pretty quickly. “Why should I shout, grandfather?” - asked one of the fans, addressing a pensioner walking next to him. The pensioner looked around - the columns were just passing by the Moscow City Hall building. “Shout: “Luzhkov to prison!” - he gave instructions to the youth. The youth joyfully took up the new chant.
However, mostly young people, diluting the columns of older supporters of the communist idea, still came to shout consciously. Several guys with a banner of the Union of Communist Youth, turning past the Kremlin onto Okhotny Ryad, began shouting: “We are going to the Kremlin! Russia without Putin!” “Guys, they can put you in prison for this!” - someone shouted from behind. In response, the young people lit fires.
It is noteworthy that the communists held their festive march in the center of Russian capitalism - on Tverskaya Street. The crowd walking along it attracted the attention of boutique sellers, who stuck to the windows and looked with some surprise at the people with red banners in their hands. The Reds caused no less surprise among the guests of the recently opened Ritz Carlton hotel, where the cheapest room costs 18 thousand rubles. per day - they even went out onto their balconies. The Bentley parked below reflected red banners.
At the rally on Teatralnaya Square, the communists used a technique recently intercepted from them by United Russia: the most time for the speech was given to a metallurgical plant worker and a “simple peasant” from the Moscow region. Gennady Zyuganov, in his accusatory speech, which was met with an ovation, called on everyone to choose number four on the ballot in the State Duma elections (it is under this number that the party is registered) and could not resist throwing a stone at his main opponents in the upcoming elections: “Let “ United Russia,” which promotes “Putin’s Plan,” does not forget that our country has already fulfilled other plans - Lenin’s plan and Stalin’s plan!”