The OMON division of Moscow police had to exert all strength to celebrate the anniversary of October Revolution November 7, 2006.
Photo: Alexander Miridonov
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Down High Street with Police
Activists of the Communist Party of Russia and radical movements marched down Tverskaya St., Moscow, November 7, to mark another anniversary of October Revolution. The unsanctioned event was opposed by over a thousand officers of OMON division of Moscow police. The victims of the standoff were passers-by, who faced the crowd calling for another revolution.
Yesterday, Moscow OMON attempted to break the longstanding tradition of marching down Tverskaya Street on the Day of October Revolution. About 3,000 activists that gathered on police-encircled Triumfalnaya Square broke into columns getting ready for a march. But unlike the rallies on Triumfalnaya and Teatralnaya Squares, there was no sanction for the sequel.
The slogans of Bolsheviks were: “Death to bourgeois!” and “The reds are in the city!” The first conflict with police sparkled when a Labrador of one of the officers started gnarring at a group of elderly communists. It was Moscow Duma’s deputy Vladimir Ulas that stood between the opposing parties and prevented that scuffle.
To avoid mass riots in the downtown Moscow, the police stepped aside for the activists to pass to Tverskaya Street. The real victims of the march were passers-by happened to be on the same side of the street with communists and radicals. Visitors of restaurants were in no hurry to go out, watching the crowd through windows. A new slogan of the National Bolsheviks repeated years of Russian revolutions, including the future one. “The 5th, the 7th, the 08th,” the crowd chanted from the middle of Tverskaya.
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