On the anniversary of the October Coup of 1917 the YABLOKO party honoured the memory of fighters against Bolsheviks
Press release, photographs, videos, 07.11.2013
On November 7, the anniversary of the October Coup of 1917, the YABLOKO party conducted a memory action paying tribute to those who tried to defend democratic Russia in 1917 – cadets and officers who conducted armed resistance to the Bolshevik coup of 1917.
Activists with white carnations in their hands walked in procession from the monument to Gogol to the house at Znamenka 10 where the headquarters of the armed resistance to the Bolsheviks were located in 1917. Activists laid flowers and put an interim memorial plaque there. After this YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin announced a minute of silence.
“This day has been celebrated in country for almost 100 years already as the biggest holiday, but we know that it was the day of the Bolshevik coup, the takeover of power, and it was a fatal blow to the nascent democracy in Russia, ” said Sergei Mitrokhin.
On the threashold of the action, YABLOKO leader wrote in his blog that after the February [bourgeois] Revolution [of 1917 which put an end to the Russian monarchy].
the Russian people were determined to convoke the Constituent Assembly. All the political forces supported this call for the Constituent Assembly – from the right to the extreme left. The Provisional Government was set up in order to give the country into the hands of national representation which was to determine Russia’s perspective. In the night from October 25 to 26 the Bolsheviks abrogated the only legitimate and multi-party body that could implement this task.
“And now for almost 100 years, we have been living in a country where the people could never decide its future,” Mitrokhin said.
“We need to honor not only the victims of the terror, but also to pay tribute to those who were not afraid to rise even in a small number against the force which began destroying our country and cost of the country millions of victims,” said Galina Mikhaleva, Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political Committee.
Since 2010, YABLOKO has been holding memory actions on this day paying tribute to cadets and officers fighting against Bolsheviks. YABLOKO has proposed to make this a state tradition and ensure that the names of the fallen officers and cadets are immortalised by a plaque.
Posted: November 9th, 2013 under History, Human Rights.