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The Kremlin's May Day: "waving boughs of artificial flowers"

bowser — 5/2/2012 12:03:13 AM (archived)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/world/europe/putin-and-medvedev-join-moscows-may-day-parade.html

How the mighty have fallen.

"Tens of thousands of trade unionists, waving boughs of artificial flowers, marched to oompah music down the broad thoroughfare that leads to the Kremlin."

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The Kremlin's May Day: "waving boughs of artificial flowers" - bowser - 5/2/2012 12:03:13 AM
- Re: The Kremlin's May Day: "waving boughs of artificial flowers" - TB - 5/2/2012 1:05:45 AM
- It's important to remember... - ER - 5/2/2012 12:23:41 AM
  - Re: It's important to remember... - TB - 5/2/2012 12:31:10 AM
    - That's the same Wiki reference I used. - ER - 5/2/2012 12:41:28 AM
      - Yeah, and before that it was pagans dancing about fertility around poles. - TB - 5/2/2012 12:52:53 AM
        
        I'm not covering up anything. - ER - 5/2/2012 12:57:29 AM
        
        Heh. - TB - 5/2/2012 1:11:30 AM
        
        As long as there are capitalists, there will always be communists. - ER - 5/2/2012 1:18:41 AM
        
        THAT is a truism, and there is another. - bowser - 5/2/2012 2:00:41 AM
        
        OTOH, May Day will no longer be a Red holiday. - ER - 5/2/2012 2:29:10 AM

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