Roughly 1,000 communists marched June 28, 2007 from the Cosmonauts Alley to Ostankino TV Center to protest against political censorship on TV.
Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov
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The Reds Rally for Blue Air
Roughly 1,000 communists marched June 28, 2007 from the Moscow Cosmonauts Alley to Ostankino TV Center to protest against political censorship on TV and manifest demand for the TV air. For this purpose, the activists trashed an old TV set and made a bonfire of portraits of TV celebrities - Mikhail Leontiev, Nikolay Svanidze, Andrey Malakhov and Xenia Sobchak.
The March Against Political Censorship on TV has become an annual event in Moscow. This year, however, the protestors broke into the democratic opposition and communist one. Yabloko staged its event a month ago and ignored the yesterday’s march of communist.
Yesterday, roughly a thousand communists gathered in Cosmonauts Alley at about 5:30 p.m., MSK. The youth produced party flags and stretched the red cloth of many meters, while communist supporters of elder generation expressed their feelings through posters reading: “TV, Enough Lies about Communists!” Some slogans, however, were of clear nationalist nature, ranging from “Away With Jew Vision! Russian TV – for the Russians!” to “We Need De-Zionism of TV!”
“Revolution!”, “Lenin, Party, Komsomol!” the crowd was chanting en route to Ostankino TV Center. The speeches of leaders were predictably over-emphatic. In the end, the activists threw an old TV set to the improvised dustbin, called it a day and broke up with the sense of performed obligation.
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