Day of Victory Was Celebrated in Many Cities across Russia

From Web Page of the Russian Communist Union of Youth (B)

MOSCOW – May 9th in Russia was celebrated in the traditional manner, despite the propaganda of the present regime of Russia. It is noteworthy that the Moscow authorities permitted only the CPRF (Zyuganov) to hold the march, all others were forbidden to march in the Red Square, only to follow the CPRF. That is why many dedicated communists and youth organizations were willingly or unwillingly forced to march after the CPRF column passed. There was then Anpilov, and then the columns of the RCWP-RPK and then at the end there followed the Orthodox Church column shouting “Christ Has Risen!

There were students, anti-imperialist slogans and placards. The Russian Communist Union of Youth (B) decided not to participate in the march but its members spread out into all marching columns and gave out revolutionary leaflets demanding the rebirth of the USSR and Socialism!

LENINGRAD - we took part in the march and laid wreaths to the fallen Red Army Soldiers and in the evening there was held a concert, poetry reading by veteran poets and what the task of communists are for urgent unity of action.

BRYANSK- The administration did all it could to minimize the idea of the Day of Victory, having police and small army cadets marching and only about 50 Great Patriotic War veterans were marching .Glory to these Veterans!

The city authorities filled the marching columns with their own supporters with their Czarist flags, while the CPRF was marching amongst them. Hardly any speeches about the meaning of the Day of Victory and in a short time the parade was over and everyone left.

KIROV - The Kirov organization of the Russian Communist Workers Party-RPK took part in the parade, in laying of flowers and wreaths at the Eternal Flame. For the first time the Union of Communist Youth took part and marched together with us. They came with large posters of Stalin. The city administration wanted to confiscate these Stalin posters, but the young Komsomol defended them and did not let them take them away.

It shows that since the Russian government is trying to block out our work, our march, our carrying of portraits of Stalin and Lenin, it is obvious that we are on the correct road towards the resurrection of the USSR and Socialism!