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May Day

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Originally part of 1st May
May Day isn't May Day anymore. Lost traditions and landmarks
14 years ago, May 4th 2009 No: 1 Msg: #71840  
May Day: there are no more parades on the Red Square in Moscow, like there used to be. For good or for worse (depending on ones political likes and dislikes), they're gone forever. Like the Berlin Wall. I've never seen either. In hindsight, they would have been dead interesting to see. What things that no longer exist would you liked to have seen? Reply to this

14 years ago, May 5th 2009 No: 2 Msg: #72004  
I saw these guys parading in London on May the first :

they were walking down through clerkenwell, which is a traditional hot bed for liberal political thought - Karl Marx used to hang out here - and they were holding lots of hammer and sickle banners and also some massive pictures of Stalin.
We were curious why they were idolising the image of a dictator that mudered millions of 'workers'. Did they really believe that we should go back to a centrally controlled and corrupt way of controlling peoples lives?
A lady we were working with who grew up in communist Slovakia hated it - she had grew up with the may day parades and said everyone hated them and the regime that forced them to wear their red uniforms and little yellow scarves.

Personally, how much fun would it have been to have to salute passing inter-continental nuclear weapons in red square? Reply to this

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