Communist Party members laid flowers at the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow on the Day of the October Revolution. Flowers were also laid at the monument to Marshal Zhukov. According to a Kommersant correspondent, the event was attended by about 1.2 thousand people.
“I call on all patriots to celebrate this main holiday today, on 7 November. This is the holiday of the working people, this is the holiday of our great statehood. This holiday showed a new world, a new future, and as long as we remain faithful to this holiday, we will definitely have new victories, and new discoveries, and new space achievements, ”said the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov after the ceremony (quoted by RIA Novosti ).
On November 7, Russia annually celebrates the Day of the October Revolution. On this day (October 25, old style) in 1917, an uprising took place in Petrograd, which ended with the proclamation of the power of the Soviets.
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