premise: Over 10,000 members and supporters of the Russian Communist Party Monday held rally in downtown Moscow to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution.
  Earlier in the day, the Communists brandishing red flags of the party and slogans scroll marched across the central streets in the capital of Russia.
  The slogans that were carried by the communist-demonstrators read "A National Status to the Great October Holiday!", "Lenin! October! Socialism!" "November 7 was, is and will be the Holiday of People!", "State Television for the People and not for Bureaucracy!".
   Why did the supporters of the Russian Communist Party hold a rally?
hypothesis: brandishing red flags of the party and slogans