Commies Celebrate in Moscow

(Moscow, Russia) Tens of thousands of communists celebrated the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution this past weekend.

More than 150,000 citizens took part in the rallies across the country, according to the Interior Ministry, and in Moscow thousands of supporters marched Friday evening from Pushkin Square to Teatralnaya Ploshchad to commemorate the Revolution.

Led by Communist Party head Gennady Zyuganov, his deputy Ivan Melnikov and a group of girls in red satin caps holding carnations, the demonstrators marched down Tverskaya Ulitsa toward the Kremlin, blocking two lanes of traffic.


Gennady Zyuganov, center, with other communists last Friday
The global financial crisis was one of the key themes in the rally.

"Capitalists! I recommend you start reading [Karl] Marx's 'Das Kapital,'" Zyuganov told the crowd in a speech.

Interestingly, it appears that most people didn't know exactly what they were celebrating. Confusion was caused since several days of commemoration popped up concurrently on the schedule. Besides celebrating the Bolshevik Revolution, people also rallied for People's Unity Day, the 1612 Defeat of Polish Invaders and the Day of Accord and Reconciliation.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.