May Day in Moscow

I was in Moscow on May 1 and I have very joyous and vivid memories of that day.

Participants met on the Kalushni Prospect, near the monument to V.I. Lenin with thousands in attendance. All over the square there were being sold Communist newspapers, red flags, buttons and pins. Soviet songs were heard all over Moscow through countless loudspeakers. At exactly Ten in the morning the marching columns started the march with CPRF, Trudovaya Rossia, Trudovaya Moskva, Komsomol, Vanguard communist youth and Muscovites marching in columns.

The bourgeois television of Russia is always focusing only on pensioners and war veterans, but absolutely avoiding showing the hundreds and thousands of young people in the ranks of the May Day celebrations. Columns upon columns of young Komsomol members were sloganizing "Our Motherland-USSR", "Today with placards – tomorrow with automatic rifles", "Lenin Hero – Putin – scum!" "Capitalism is dirt".

The river was never ending of marchers who marched until they reached Theatre Square near the monument to Karl Marx. Here there took place a meeting where the CPRF had a speaker, chairman of the Union of Workers of Moscow, Union of Students, a member of the Communist Party of Iraq spoke to an ovation. The meeting was opened up with the singing of the "Hymn of the Soviet Union" and ended up with singing of the "International."

In my heart there came the words of Mayakovsky: "I am lucky, that I am part of this mighty force! All that unites – even tears and eyes…!"

No, Gentlemen "Democrats-Reformers"! you are celebrating your victory too soon over the USSR! You were able to with lies and traitorous acts to temporarily destroy our Motherland. But it’s not evening yet, gentlemen!