November 7 is a day off for everyone, but the holiday is far from common. For the next generation, November 7 is a completely alien holiday. They know little about the fateful shot of the Aurora.
Modern children do not understand why October Revolution Day is celebrated in November. They are surprised that once there were two whole days off "on October" - November 7 and 8. They still find it strange our habit of thinking one thing, saying another, dreaming about a third.
They are being told about the new-old style, about the introduction of the Gregorian calendar on the territory of Russia. They still do not fully perceive the situation, because Russia and the USSR are foreign countries for them. Children did not live in the country where we lived, representatives of the middle and older generations.
There is a historical abyss between our children and us. They were born in Belarus, we are in the USSR. And the holiday on November 7 is also different for us.
The writer says that over time, and a lot of it is needed, with the attitude to the holiday everything will become much calmer than now. In a few decades, November 7 will be as significant to us as the Paris Commune. Now Vladimir Nyaklyaeu noticed in an interview "Belorusskie Novosti" that it is not worthwhile to judge this day unambiguously: “ One cannot but keep in mind the people who have lived with this holiday all their lives. To impose this holiday on the young is senseless. Attempts to somehow synthesize sovietism and democracy are also quite controversial. We have not yet sailed on the ship of history from the huge iceberg called the USSR so far to understand what is left behind us. "
In general, the main problem in the issue of assessing both the historical date and the holiday, the writer sees in the fact that today we are trying "Humanly approach the celebration, assessment of the holiday and day inhuman in its essence." He himself does not celebrate November 7, but he also does not adhere to those who oppose communism on this day: "To express my civic position, other dates are closer to me - Freedom Day, for example." At the same time, Uladzimir Nyaklyaeu believes that people should be given the opportunity “Who wants to stigmatize the revolution, who wants to praise. Too many people in our country have their destinies connected with this date ”.
TV presenter and writer Tamara Lissitskaya is warm by November 7. For her, this day is associated with pleasant childhood memories: “I remember well that on that day my mother cooked delicious chicken, and my father and I went to the demonstration. I hardly understood what a demonstration was, but I liked the very atmosphere of the holiday, I liked sitting on my father's shoulders. I had a lot of balls and the attention of others. Then we returned home, my mother met us, everyone watched TV together. "
As a child, says Tamara Lissitskaya, no one thought about what kind of holiday it was. Over time, when alternative information about the revolution appeared, childhood ended. Today Tamara Lissitskaya talks about November 7, which is most likely “People will not miss the opportunity to drink some for or against what happened 90 years ago. I really won't have to, because I work on this day. "
Will not celebrate on November 7 and, director of the research and production private unitary enterprise "Reliable programs", chairman of the board of directors of the portal TUT.By.
“What kind of holiday is this? This day was not such for me either before or now, ”Yuri Zisser was surprised and said: “For me, this is not a holiday, but an opportunity to quietly work an extra day, which is rare.” 
According to the ex-head of the Supreme Council of the BSSR Stanislav Shushkevich, "Soviet people at one time were" slightly "confused" regarding the symbolism and significance of this day.
The politician sighed that at one time, due to his official duties, he could not help but go to a rally or not attend festive events. Shushkevich considers this day to be a day of remembrance for those who "Ruined the barracks communist system." The politician today does not recognize the holiday of November 7: "Probably, I'll go to the dacha, my wife will send to put the site in order before winter."
The deputy of the House of Representatives shared with us a hooligan story related to November 7: during her student time, in the mid-70s, marching in a column past the representatives of the Supreme Council, her cheerful company shouted: "Fuck long live i pasetstsa Belarusian bird was booing!" - "Fuck!" The demonstrators and the host of the demonstration mistook these outcries for communist slogans.
According to the deputy, today this holiday, on the one hand, is nostalgic for those who are helped to remember their youth, and on the other hand, causes, if not rejection, then indifference of those who were not born and raised in the USSR.
Olga Abramova intends to devote the first half of the day to economic affairs, and then, according to her, inspired by the Social March, she will start preparing materials on this topic for an Internet page or online diary.
The head of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions said that after everything that was announced in the late 90s about the October Revolution and its consequences, the change in attitude towards this day is not surprising.
On this day, the trade unionist calls on to think about what such shocks as a revolution lead to, and what price had to be paid for it, especially for the Belarusian people. Such dates should be marked very meaningfully, Yaroshuk said.
For him personally, the holiday does not matter, said the trade union leader, in addition, on November 7 he will work: it is necessary to prepare the visit of the Swedish colleagues and the upcoming seminars.
He was joined by the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party. In conversation with "Belarusian News" the politician said that "There is no such holiday as the day of the October Revolution for him, as well as for the overwhelming majority of Belarusians." History, the politician specified, is characterized by different periods, there was also a communist one, which turned out to be "Dead-end branch of development." "But there are those who believe in this holiday, do not see the dead end, is it necessary to cancel the holiday because of this?" says Gaidukevich.
And the politician hopes to take advantage of the day off to finally get some sleep, take a break from traveling to the regions before the parliamentary elections.
On November 7, the editor-in-chief of the Tovarishch newspaper, the publication of the Belarusian Communist Party, promised not only to lay flowers at the Lenin monument on Independence Square with party representatives, but also to drink vodka in honor of the holiday.
A Communist Party spokesman shattered the symbolism of the day into two aspects: the historic breakthrough to democracy that ended in failure, and the breakthrough in social justice that helped solve major social problems. It is not October that is to blame for what happened after it, but those who were at the helm of the country, exploiting Lenin's ideas, considers the editor, calling themselves "Marxists and Leninists."
On November 7, Sergei Voznyak will unload a new edition of Tovarishch, which will arrive from Smolensk. "A good article by Sergei Kalyakin is published in the new issue - a modern view of socialism", - the editor explained his desire to work on an almost professional holiday.
, the head of the "Syabry" ensemble, said "Belorusskie Novosti", that as a law-abiding citizen for a long time perceived November 7 as one of the main days in the calendar: "We have been instilled with this attitude since childhood." Then there was a collapse of hopes, disappointment: “I was touched by the collapse of the country, where there was a large audience of our ensemble. Now I think that in 1991 we experienced the second revolution. So I don't see any point in talking about the ideas of 1917. As for the holiday, for example, "Syabry" together with the group "Modo" by Raimonds Pauls became laureates of the Soviet song contest dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. Thus, 1977 was our first success in Moscow. Who would have thought then that this date would ever be called into question? "
Anyway, Anatoly Yarmolenko congratulated everyone who celebrates the Day of the October Revolution: “Why deprive someone of pleasure? There are already a lot of disappointments in life, everything is so fleeting, changing so quickly. Against the fact that November 7 is a day off for everyone who does not celebrate, including, I have nothing against it at all. This day off is the result of the October Revolution, against which it is difficult, I think, to object to anything. "
Moscow. Spring 1991. Magazine repair tool. This is Andrei Golovyova / Tookhonika GAR /.
October Revolution Day remained in Belarus a holiday and a day off in the 1990s thanks, most likely, to the socialist convictions of the head of the country, Alexander Lukashenko. Probably, then he still believed that state diktat was an effective way of managing the economy, and perhaps at the same time he wanted to play on the Soviet nostalgia of a part of the Belarusian and Russian electorate.
However, since then, much has changed in the economic policy of the Belarusian state, and in the mood of the Belarusians, and in the behavior of the eastern neighbor.
Last year, the head of the country congratulated "dear compatriots" on the day of the October Revolution in a short text, actually three paragraphs.
Why is it proposed to celebrate the day when not on the territory of Belarus and not Belarusians, but the Russian Bolsheviks did something, and moreover, then quickly and completely officially gave Belarus to the German troops? Don't get me wrong, the Kaiser's troops for Belarus were a much better option than the Bolsheviks, here I fully support the Bolsheviks.
The Brest Peace Treaty, according to which the Bolsheviks ceded the bulk of Belarus to Germany, became one of the main reasons for the declaration of independence of the Belarusian People's Republic. Source wikipedia.org In the first paragraph of the congratulations of the head of the country, it was noted that this is a special event that had a significant impact on world history and the fate of many peoples. You cannot argue with this - however, the fall of the Roman Empire, which existed for hundreds of years, is even more important for world history, but we do not celebrate it.
Then the head of the country mentioned "social benefits, ideals of equality, peace, interethnic harmony that developed in the Soviet era." However, this year, the main newspaper of the country's leadership, which archived its name “Soviet Belarus”, openly discussed and wrote materials about the “benefits” that were received by representatives of all social groups of Belarus under Soviet occupation - in the execution pits in Kurapaty and near other Belarusian cities. Let according to the order, but state employees and activists of the state heritage of the Komsomol conduct subbotniks at the site of communist murders.
As for the "ideals of equality", everyone who has come across the USSR remembers the popular saying: "the people and the party are one, only the shops are separate." The proverb combined the Soviet slogan with the opposite reality - total shortage in combination with special distributors, special rations and other special supplies for the party-Soviet nomenclature. An ordinary doctor, officer, teacher, for his honestly earned rubles, could not buy what a communist functionary received at a reduced price or even free of charge.
Empty shelves in Soviet stores for ordinary people. Source lenta.ru However, even now - what kind of equality are we talking about if we compare the capabilities of a young man or girl from a village or small town with the capabilities of children of Minsk state officials? Do they have equal access to education, physical development, and the opportunity to get a job with good earnings? The answers are obvious.
As for "peace" and "interethnic harmony", it was interethnic conflicts, financing of wars around the world, and then the direct participation of the USSR in the war in Afghanistan as a result that destroyed the "inviolable alliance." Dubious achievements.
As a result, in last year's congratulations to the head of the country, it remains to talk to us about the affairs of bygone days - "a powerful impetus in industry", Soviet space, science and, of course, "military heroism."
Finnish infantry fighting vehicle Patria. Photo wikipedia.org. And here the October Revolution is incomprehensible - Finland, even without the power of the Communists, created (and has preserved to this day, by the way) a strong and modern industry, the astronauts of the United States walked on the Moon even without the Communists, and soldiers of all countries of the world showed military heroism, regardless of the presence of the Bolsheviks in the army. ...
Rather, on the contrary, the Soviet state and the Red Army during World War II, thanks to the Bolsheviks, showed an unheard-of level of desertion and desertion to the side of the enemy. And this is official Soviet data, no "anti-Sovietism" - during the war years, more than 994 thousand Soviet soldiers, officers and generals were convicted by Soviet military tribunals alone. Moreover, 135 thousand of them were shot.
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This is about 15 times more than the Nazis shot their soldiers and officers during the war. Despite the fact that the Wehrmacht actually existed and was exposed in 1944, a large-scale conspiracy against Adolf Hitler.
I am writing this text on the evening of November 6 - and so far there is no congratulations on November 7 of this year on the website of the head of Belarus. Hopefully it won't. If not this year, then next.
Only a few days ago, on the Catholic holiday of All Saints, Metropolitan Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz especially noted that the coming of the Bolsheviks to power was a tragedy, and suggested a day off - just like the already existing day off on Radunitsa. In four days, 1409 people signed a petition in favor of this proposal - and I think that there will be much more signatures if all Belarusian Catholic bishops join the hierarch's opinion.
Metropolitan Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz during the All Saints' Day Evening Mass at the Minsk See. Photo catholic.by. Belarus has changed, economic policy has changed, people have changed. Soviet nostalgia is disappearing, and the patriotic values of independence and Belarusian culture are expanding.
Even under the rule of Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus does not want to be a colony of Moscow and a second Transnistria.
Yes, if you didn’t know, then the unrecognized “Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika” is the only “state” in the world where November 7 is also a day off. Let's make it unique.
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