To Lenin with Stalin and Lukashenka (Photo)

• 9.11.2009, 11:29

Street actions organized by communists and national Bolsheviks were held in Belarus on November 7, which is still a state holiday.

Representatives of several communist organizations were laying flowers to the monument to Lenin since 10 a.m. the Communist Party of Belarus, lead by MP Tatsyana Holubeva, laid flowers too, Radio Svaboda reports. She said in her speech:

“I think this is the only state holiday in the post-Soviet countries. We have come here in spite of nasty weather to pay the tribute to great Lenin.”

Representatives of the Belarusian Party of Communists laud flowers as well. Party leader Syarhei Kalyakin said Belarus wouldn’t have become an independent state if it hadn’t been for the revolution.

25 member of the unregistered National Bolshevik Party laid flowers t the monument to Dzerzhinsky. The national Bolsheviks wore arm bands depicting a sickle and a hammer, and had an unauthorized march to Victory square along Independence Avenue.

They unfurled a red flag in the pedestrian subway near Victory square. Then they read a pray of the national Bolsheviks near the eternal fire: “Let your blood go to the party blood. Let us be the single whole. Yes, death!”

Militia didn’t hinder them.

Some tens of people, mostly old, gathered in the center of Vitsebsk. Most of them represent the pro-governmental Communist Party of Belarus and the opposition Belarusian Communist Party.

They didn’t raise flags. As head of the regional Belarusian Communist Party Mikalai Selivashka said, the city executive committee banned them to hold a meeting, but permitted to lay flowers to the monument to Lenin. The local authorities also didn’t invite the opposition communist for a city solemn meting.

The participants of the action came to Lenin square with portraits with outstanding, in the in view figures. They had two such portraits – a big coloured portrait of Stalin and a smaller one of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

Photo by "Radio Svaboda", "Nasha Niva"