FÊTE DE LA RÉCONCILIATION

For seven decades, November 7 was the main celebration of three generations of Soviets: the anniversary of the October Revolution (the Bolsheviks took power on October 25, 1917, according to the Julian calendar then in force in Russia), it was celebrated with pomp and circumstance. On November 7, 1990, the October Revolution was officially celebrated for the last time on Red Square in Moscow; on that day, as every year, the Soviet Army marched with the same impeccable pace past the stands of Lenin's mausoleum occupied by Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Lukyanov (the Speaker of Parliament and the soul of the August 1991 putsch). Today, the day is no longer even a holiday and is mainly celebrated by communists and nostalgic for the USSR of all kinds who meet and take advantage of the opportunity to take out flags, slogans and vintage clothes worthy of the most beautiful hours of brejnevism.