In Moscow, the Pervomaisky rally of the Communists and Monstrium are in parallel

Several thousand people took place as part of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, accompanied by an orchestra from Kaluga Square past the Kremlin to Theater Square. They sang military songs near the button accordion, carried posters with the image of Grudinin and Zyuganov, Stalin and Lenin, the correspondent of Novaya Gazeta reports.

“There would have been nothing of this without Stalin,” explains one of the photographs of Stalin and Gagarin on the same poster. - There would be no Stalin - and Gagarin would not be. And there would be no flight. It's obvious! "

Among the slogans, they also sounded “hands away from Grudinin and Zyuganov”, “Freedom to Putin from his position” and the classic “Lenin. Party. Komsomol ”,“ Mir. Labor ”and“ proletarians of all countries, unite ”.

One of the organizers of the column “Against torture and discrimination” Elena Bezrukova tells “New” that at first the rally against torture was planned to be carried out in a separate procession, but the Moscow City Hall rejected the application in the center, proposing it to Lublin, after which the activists decided to join the demonstration organized by the United Communist Party. At the rally, posters are also prohibited in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and the defendants in the work of the “new greatness”.

On "Monstration", the participants go through the framework. Among others, the supporters of the combination of carriers of Russia, the “Left Front” and its coordinator Sergey Udaltsov, participants in the “Okrofoochka”, human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, took to the Druzhinnikovskaya street.

“Montrination” is an artistic action in the form of a demonstration with intentionally absurd slogans and banners. In Moscow, the action was agreed .

Earlier, detentions were reported in a number of Russian cities, including in St. Petersburg and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, participants in the May Day actions.