Sunday 1 May 2016

Leftist march near the Red Square

Today we had breakfast in the hotel and decided what to do. One choice was the Tretyjakov Gallery, which was near the hotel, the other was the Red Square, to see the celebration of work (1st of May).
I chose the latter. We separarated so everyone could see what he/she wanted, not democraticly decided by the majority what he/she will see.
Before separation, we went together in the Kreml's direction to see it from a bridge, where we had a great view of it. Maybe we will visit it from the inside too, I'm not sure. At least, we took good photos with it.



We saw the crowd from the bridge and heared that the show is going. So we started walking in that direction. Sadly it ended and people were coming away from there. We wanted to go in the other direction, to visit the Red Square, but the policemen at the fence did not let us. So we walked around Kreml as long as we could and went back with the metro.



The next place to visit was a monument for the sins of men, that hurt children. Practicly 13 statues in a semicircle representing them. It made me think and amazed me. Great that we visited it.


After this, we were going back to the nearest metro station, which was Tretyjakov by the way, but saw a huge crowd on the next bridge,where we made the photos earlier, with red flags. They looked like Soviet flags. We had to go and see it for ourselves.
It turned out, that this was a march of the Russian Communist Party. They were singing songs, that I did not understand, only notices that they were singing Katyusha once.
It was weird, with all the socuet flags and stuff, We never saw anything like that back home. Those  soviet symbols are banned at home too.

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