A festive procession and a rally of the Communist party in "Aurora"
Channel: КПРФ СПб ТВ
Date: 2016-11-10

November 7, 2016 in the city of three revolutions, St. Petersburg held a festive procession and meeting of Communists on the occasion of the 99th anniversary of the great October socialist revolution. 

Columns of demonstrators, among whom were members of the Communist party, Lenin Komsomol, the Union of Soviet officers, all-Russian women's Union "Hope of Russia", movement "children of war", Communist party of Finland, Communist youth League of China, defrauded investors and other public organizations of the city marched through the street of Academician Lebedev, Botkinskaya str., Finlyandsky Prospect via Sampsonievsky bridge to Petrogradskaya embankment to a place of eternal Parking lot of the legendary cruiser "Aurora", where there was a Communist rally.

Will not be superfluous to emphasize that the Leningrad Communists for many years a creative approach to the organization of festive events the head of the column of Communists were revolutionary soldiers and sailors from military-Patriotic club "Komsomolets" under the slogan "power to the Soviets!" And for the movement of a column of demonstrators carried placards showing the basic socio-economic demands of the party. Already at the venue of the rally its participants were in for a surprise – between speeches at the rally, the famous song "Komsomol volunteers" performed by the honored artist of Russia Anton Oleinik.

He opened the meeting with his speech the first Secretary of the St. Petersburg city Committee of the Communist party, member of the Central Committee of the Communist party, head of the Communist party faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Olga Arkhipovna Hodunova. She drew attention to the fact that the ideas of the Great October revolution is not dead – they find their followers in all corners of the globe. Dynamic socialist China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea, ideas of October live in many Latin American countries, building socialism in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. However, she noted that power in Russia today makes another attack on social gains, gave our people a Great October, and brought appalling figures of the degradation of Russia both in economic and in ethical terms. According to A. O., the state policy of stupefying the population, the Communists must oppose wider dissemination of program materials of the Communist party, explaining the basic contradiction between labor and capital, as well as the enduring importance of those social gains that have been bestowed on the people of the revolution.

The participants recalled the statement by the member of Bureau of the city Committee of the Communist party, Deputy head of the Communist party faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg V. I. Ivanov, Secretary of the St. Petersburg city Committee of the Communist party, a member of the Central Committee of youth of the Russian Federation R. I. Kononenko, a well-known writer and publicist G. U. Sadulayeva, head of the St. Petersburg branch of Russia and the IRR "Russian lad" by A. V. Vorontsov, head of the Latin American cultural center named after Hugo Chavez Lidovskaya Egor, the Brazilian Communist Christiano Lima, Secretary of the St. Petersburg city Committee of the Communist party VI Borodinchik and Communist Krasnoselsky district Pyotr Shcherbakov. All the speakers agreed in their rejection of the current course of the government and the need to support the working man.

The resolution of the meeting in which members demanded the immediate resignation of the anti-people government and transfer of power to a government of national trust, as well as the revision of the results of predatory privatization and nationalization of oligarchic ownership, was adopted unanimously.

The rally ended with fireworks on the Neva.