Why November 7^th Holiday Was Renamed?

Although the Soviet people did and do celebrate the November 7th as the holiday of the Great October Socialist  Revolution, as is reported in this issue of NSC – maybe not everyone of our readers knows that this  day was renamed as “National Unity Day”. This was done already in 2005 in order to eliminate the great significance of the October Socialist Revolution from the minds of the younger generation. The reason given by the present bourgeois regime was to “give this holiday historical significance by tying it to the 1612 expulsion by Russia of Polish and Cossack troops who briefly seized Moscow at that time.”

This renaming was done for two very specific political reasons:

(1) Eliminate from the minds of the people the great political and historical significance of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

(2) Build and nurture Russian nationalism amongst the younger generation.

The starting point was the law adopted in order to forbid any November 7^th celebration being held by Soviet people, Communist and anti-present regime protestors from demonstrating on the Red Square.

Maybe some of the NSC readers noticed in the daily media that on November 7, the   90^th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the thousands of Soviet people had to hold this event away from the Red Square. But the present regime’s sponsored, supported, funded and promoted youth organization was allowed to march in the Red Square and Mr. Putin with his sponsored and groomed young followers placed a wreath to the 17^th century liberators, but not to the greatest event that took place for all of humanity – the 1917 October Revolution.

How things are heading under Mr. Putin’s  tutelage is the following fact – a white supremacist from Texas, USA, Preston Wiginton, 43, was in Moscow to urge the over 5,000 Russian nationalists to build a strong Nationalist Russia. When they marched along the Moscow River, the signs read “Russians- stand up! and “Russia above all!” plus other Nazi-sounding slogans used in Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Although the 90^th Anniversary celebration was a huge success, with representatives of world Communist and Workers Parties marching together with the Soviet people, the desperate need for Communist Unity in former Soviet Union is still a dream, as unfortunately is also the international unity that must be achieved soon, before fascism starts to make headway as the only viable salvation for the US imperialism and its absolute controller, the US multinational corporate power.

The last question that must be asked of Mr. Putin’s Russia is: “Why did Moscow authorities give permission for these outright Nazi Groups and their fascist salutes to march unopposed in Moscow?”

Forgive me dear readers, but there is another question that must be asked of Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation whose party organized the celebration both in Minsk and in Moscow:

“Your invitation on the occasion  of the 90^th Anniversary of the October Revolution is great, very well done and full of Marxist ideological thoughts – but, as one reader of NSC in Moscow said: “The words of Zyuganov do not match the deeds of the CPRF!”

As a member of the ruling Russian Duma parliament, is CPRF taking a stand of condemnation of this fascist threat that is raising its ugly head on the streets of many Russian cities?

We are certain that the future struggle against the present Russian capitalist-nationalist regime demands UNITY ABOVE ALL!

When will this opportunism, this cancer and personal ambitions amongst some of the communist leadership in the  former USSR and in other countries, cease and wake up  to this dangerous reality that capitalism, followed by imperialism will always take the final  fatal step and become fascism?

As friends of Socialism and of the Soviet Union since 1918, we certainly do have the right to express our opinions! As Lenin said: “Socialist Democracy must come from below, not from the leadership at the top”!

Or, are some of the present leaders of the Communist parties think that now they are even smarter than V. I. Lenin?

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