Members and sympathizers of the Communist Party (PCRM) on November 7 gathered together near the monument to the revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to celebrate the 97th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. They laid flowers at the monument and gave speeches eulogizing the revolution and the Soviet Union and criticizing the current Moldovan government, capitalism and bourgeoisie, IPN reports.
“The Great October Socialist Revolution laid the foundations of a new world where freedom, equality and fraternity are ensured indeed, first of all for the working class,” said Alexandr Isaev, who is a candidate for MP on the Communist ticket.
The head of the Union of Communist Youth of Moldova Diana Caraman noted that the Communist values are shared not only by those who lived in the USSR. “What is the Great October Revolution? It is a day that gave hope to the future generations. It is first of all a holiday of young people because the revolution of 1917 was staged namely by the youth,” she stated.
“This revolution united all the people of Russia and the soldiers because that absolutely imperialist and unjustified war started in 1914 was continued. It united the peasants who had no rights in the tsarist Russia. It united the workers or the working class that emerged then in Russia. It is important that these methods, principles and this theory of revolution were successfully implemented in other countries,” said the leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin. He noted that after the dismemberment of the USSR, namely the PCRM promoted the ideals of the revolution in Moldova and protected them from those who opposed them.
The Communist leader criticized the Liberal parties of the right, saying the parliamentary elections of November 30 will be the most series test for the PCRM because effort is now made to discredit the party and to prevent it from coming to power. He encouraged the participants to mobilize and to vote for the PCRM and against those who destroyed the inheritance of the USSR.
The October Revolution was a seizure of state power that brought tsarism in Russia to an end. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to October 25, 1917 (by the Julian calendar, which corresponds to November 7, 1917 in the Gregorian calendar). Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on October 24, 1917. The following day, the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia), was captured.
