Communists of this city went into the steers and tried to march to the monument to V.I. Lenin where we always held meetings, but since 2007 the city administration has barred us from this place and we refused to be part of their manifestation near the regimes set-up tribune.
We held our meeting opposite them with our red flags and banners flying in the wind and with the pictures of Stalin held high. Our slogans were “Capitalism – danger to mankind!” “May Day – day of solidarity of the workers!“ “May Day – Day of Struggle!”
This year there came a Major of the Police to our meeting. When we started to sing the International, he came up to me and pinned a Red Ribbon on my chest. We all understood that some of the police officers are with us!
On May 9th at the Monument to Red Army there we always held meetings on this victory over fascism, and the present regime also held a meeting, but you would never know that it was dedicated to the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Out slogans were: “Glory to Generalissimo Stalin!” “For the Motherland – For Stalin!” “If it wasn’t for Stalin – we would not have won!”
This year, because of protests by the
people, the city administration did not fly the three-color bourgeois
flag. We flew Soviet red fags and the police demanded that we take the
red flags down. We refused and he threatened us with a fine of 1.000
rubles. We still did not budge. They then went away and left us alone.
We had young pioneers carrying the red flags now.
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