Day of Accord and Reconciliation
One of the most important holidays during the Soviet Era was Revolution Day. It was a time to honor and remember those who instigated the October Revolution of 1917, fought and died as a result of oppression and rebellion. On the new calendar, the date of this celebration is November 7.
Day of Russia's military glory
Until 1991, Nov. 7 was celebrated in the USSR as the country's main
holiday - the Day of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Even in
school history lessons everyone knows that on the night of 7 to 8
November (New Style), 1917, an uprising in Petrograd, committed by the
proletariat of Russia, that shot was standing on Nevsky berth cruiser
"Aurora" that the armed workers, soldiers and sailors captured mail,
telephone, telegraph and the Winter Palace, that they overthrew the
Provisional Government and proclaimed Soviet power, which then existed
in our country and seventy-odd years.
All these years on 7th of
November was a "red day in the calendar" public holiday celebrated with a
military parade and a demonstration of workers in Red Square. With the
collapse of the Soviet Union and the excommunication of the Communist
Party from power, it all ended.
Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov was born 7 November 1943 in Saratov, Russia. He is a prominent Russian military and political figure. From 2000 to 2012, he was the Governor of Moscow Oblast.
ReplyDeleteHe graduated from a Suvorov military cadet school, the Leningrad Military Commanders School and later from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, as well as the General Staff Academy.
During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Gromov did three tours of duty (1980–1982, 1985–1986, 1987–1989), and was best known for the two years as the last Commander of the 40th Army in Afghanistan. Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan, crossing on foot the Friendship Bridge spanning the Amu-Daria river on 15 February 1989, the day the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan was completed. He received the highest military award – the golden star of the Hero of the Soviet Union after Operation Magistral had lifted the siege of the city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan
Today was also born Leon Trotsky a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
ReplyDeleteTrotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918–20). He was also among the first members of the Politburo.
Trotsky's ideas formed the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought that is opposed to the theories of Stalinism. He was one of the few Soviet political figures who were not rehabilitated by the government of Nikita Khrushchev. His books, however, were released for publication in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. He was finally rehabilitated in 2001.
The Great October Socialist Revolution followed and capitalized on the February Revolution of the same year. The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks. As the revolution was not universally recognized outside of Petrograd there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–1923) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.
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