[news] 90th Anniversary of the October Revolution

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

[As a] left-winger, I am supposed to venerate the day of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. But no, I have never felt like celebrating....And yes, despite all the atrocities and blunders and the totalitarian outcome of the October Revolution, the Russian people have all the reasons to commemorate the storming of the Winter Palace...As always, this year I felt an irresistible impulse to leave Moscow...Getting off the train in [St. Petersburg], I learned the news that the workers of the Ford plant commemorated the Russian Revolution's 90th anniversary in their special way – they went on strike.  


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