Happy May Day Comrades

[SFLiberal]

Next to possibly Earth ay isn't this your most treasured day? So enjoy today Comrades and take a shot of vodka for me. Power to the working class!!!

Russia stages first Red Square May Day parade since Soviet days
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era on Thursday, with workers holding banners proclaiming support for President Vladimir Putin after the seizure of territory from neighboring Ukraine.

Thousands of trade unionists marched with Russian flags and flags of Putin's ruling United Russia party onto the giant square beneath the Kremlin walls, past the red granite mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin.

Many banners displayed traditional slogans for the annual workers' holiday, like: "Peace, Labour, May". But others were more directly political, alluding to the crisis in neighboring former Soviet republic Ukraine, where Russian troops seized and annexed the Crimea peninsula in March, precipitating the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.

"I am proud of my country," read one. "Putin is right," said another.

Unlike Kremlin leaders in Soviet times, Putin did not personally preside at the parade from atop the mausoleum. But he carried out another Soviet-era tradition by awarding "Hero of Labour" medals to five workers at a ceremony in the Kremlin. He revived the Stalin-era award a year ago.

Putin has described the breakup of the Soviet Union as a tragedy and overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy in March by declaring Russia's right to intervene in former Soviet countries to protect Russian speakers.

Laws have been changed to make it easier for Russia to annex territory from other former Soviet states and for inhabitants of other parts of the old Soviet Union to get Russian citizenship.

Since the annexation of Crimea, pro-Moscow gunmen have seized territory in eastern Ukraine and Putin has massed tens of thousands of troops on the frontier. He denies he is planning an invasion but proclaims the right to launch one if necessary to defend Russian speakers.

May Day, always an important date in the Soviet calendar and still a major holiday for Russians, has been marked by rallies in other parts of Moscow since the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, but until now parades were kept off Red Square.
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-stages-firs...NlYwNzcg--

[cletus1]

Next to possibly Earth ay isn't this your most treasured day? So enjoy today Comrades and take a shot of vodka for me. Power to the working class!!!

Russia stages first Red Square May Day parade since Soviet days
Reuters
By Nigel Stephenson 5 hours ago

By Nigel Stephenson
Related Stories

Moscow May Day parade lauds Putin as more Ukraine buildings seized Reuters
Putin changes law to ease citizenship for Russian speakers Reuters
Putin 'to visit Crimea' for May 9 military parade AFP
Why Putin’s Adventure in Ukraine Is Doomed The Fiscal Times
Putin 'walks the walk' over Ukraine but not as Obama wants Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era on Thursday, with workers holding banners proclaiming support for President Vladimir Putin after the seizure of territory from neighboring Ukraine.

Thousands of trade unionists marched with Russian flags and flags of Putin's ruling United Russia party onto the giant square beneath the Kremlin walls, past the red granite mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin.

Many banners displayed traditional slogans for the annual workers' holiday, like: "Peace, Labour, May". But others were more directly political, alluding to the crisis in neighboring former Soviet republic Ukraine, where Russian troops seized and annexed the Crimea peninsula in March, precipitating the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.

"I am proud of my country," read one. "Putin is right," said another.

Unlike Kremlin leaders in Soviet times, Putin did not personally preside at the parade from atop the mausoleum. But he carried out another Soviet-era tradition by awarding "Hero of Labour" medals to five workers at a ceremony in the Kremlin. He revived the Stalin-era award a year ago.

Putin has described the breakup of the Soviet Union as a tragedy and overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy in March by declaring Russia's right to intervene in former Soviet countries to protect Russian speakers.

Laws have been changed to make it easier for Russia to annex territory from other former Soviet states and for inhabitants of other parts of the old Soviet Union to get Russian citizenship.

Since the annexation of Crimea, pro-Moscow gunmen have seized territory in eastern Ukraine and Putin has massed tens of thousands of troops on the frontier. He denies he is planning an invasion but proclaims the right to launch one if necessary to defend Russian speakers.

May Day, always an important date in the Soviet calendar and still a major holiday for Russians, has been marked by rallies in other parts of Moscow since the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, but until now parades were kept off Red Square.
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-stages-firs...NlYwNzcg--

Is Kitzhaber a communist? Heck his party affiliation in the voter pamphlets says he is a Democrat.

[SFLiberal]

Next to possibly Earth ay isn't this your most treasured day? So enjoy today Comrades and take a shot of vodka for me. Power to the working class!!!

Russia stages first Red Square May Day parade since Soviet days
Reuters
By Nigel Stephenson 5 hours ago

By Nigel Stephenson
Related Stories

Moscow May Day parade lauds Putin as more Ukraine buildings seized Reuters
Putin changes law to ease citizenship for Russian speakers Reuters
Putin 'to visit Crimea' for May 9 military parade AFP
Why Putin’s Adventure in Ukraine Is Doomed The Fiscal Times
Putin 'walks the walk' over Ukraine but not as Obama wants Reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era on Thursday, with workers holding banners proclaiming support for President Vladimir Putin after the seizure of territory from neighboring Ukraine.

Thousands of trade unionists marched with Russian flags and flags of Putin's ruling United Russia party onto the giant square beneath the Kremlin walls, past the red granite mausoleum of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin.

Many banners displayed traditional slogans for the annual workers' holiday, like: "Peace, Labour, May". But others were more directly political, alluding to the crisis in neighboring former Soviet republic Ukraine, where Russian troops seized and annexed the Crimea peninsula in March, precipitating the biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.

"I am proud of my country," read one. "Putin is right," said another.

Unlike Kremlin leaders in Soviet times, Putin did not personally preside at the parade from atop the mausoleum. But he carried out another Soviet-era tradition by awarding "Hero of Labour" medals to five workers at a ceremony in the Kremlin. He revived the Stalin-era award a year ago.

Putin has described the breakup of the Soviet Union as a tragedy and overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy in March by declaring Russia's right to intervene in former Soviet countries to protect Russian speakers.

Laws have been changed to make it easier for Russia to annex territory from other former Soviet states and for inhabitants of other parts of the old Soviet Union to get Russian citizenship.

Since the annexation of Crimea, pro-Moscow gunmen have seized territory in eastern Ukraine and Putin has massed tens of thousands of troops on the frontier. He denies he is planning an invasion but proclaims the right to launch one if necessary to defend Russian speakers.

May Day, always an important date in the Soviet calendar and still a major holiday for Russians, has been marked by rallies in other parts of Moscow since the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, but until now parades were kept off Red Square.
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-stages-firs...NlYwNzcg--

Is Kitzhaber a communist? Heck his party affiliation in the voter pamphlets says he is a Democrat.

You and I both know that JFK would not recognize his party if he was alive today. The Dems just haven't gotten around to changing their name. The Blue Dog Dems are extinct, replaced with the likes of Pelosi, Reid and Obama.

[KateBush]

Do you believe the bullshit you post?

[csrowan]

Do you believe the bullshit you post?

It certainly seems that way. He's just a far-right parrot.

[Prospero]

Putin has described the breakup of the Soviet Union as a tragedy

In another context, President Lincoln probably would have described the breakup of the American union as a tragedy, if secession had been successful. And that attitude had more to do with the ongoing westward extension of the United States than with any particular political philosophy. The centralized state control of the USSR, extended into eastern Europe and southward into Islamic territories, owed more to Caesar and Napoleon than to Marx.

[illcommandante]

May Day commemorates the murder of anarchists by Chicago's law. It was our holiday, in the beginning. And, it should be, again.