Kyiv Communists celebrate May Day, perhaps for the final time
A few hundred communist activists, mostly pensioners, gathered in Kyiv with their red flags and soviet symbols to celebrate May Day.
It could be the last time communists in Ukraine celebrate workers’ day in this way if a bill forbidding their symbols is signed into law by President Petro Poroshenko.
Euronews corespondent Sergio Cantone spoke to historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, head of the Institute of National Memory, who explained that Ukraine is now moving in a different direction.
“May Day should be rejected by Ukrainians because in Russia it is being celebrated in this Soviet way,” Viatrovych explained. “Now in Russia the Soviet past is being revived, something that contradicts what is happening in Ukraine where there is the Soviet past is being condemned.”
Meanwhile, a small group of teenagers, self-proclaimed anti-communists, tried to crash the communist gathering.
Police prevented them from doing so and made several arrests.
Cantone reported from Besarabka Ploshad w
It could be the last time communists in Ukraine celebrate workers’ day in this way if a bill forbidding their symbols is signed into law by President Petro Poroshenko.
Euronews corespondent Sergio Cantone spoke to historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, head of the Institute of National Memory, who explained that Ukraine is now moving in a different direction.
“May Day should be rejected by Ukrainians because in Russia it is being celebrated in this Soviet way,” Viatrovych explained. “Now in Russia the Soviet past is being revived, something that contradicts what is happening in Ukraine where there is the Soviet past is being condemned.”
Meanwhile, a small group of teenagers, self-proclaimed anti-communists, tried to crash the communist gathering.
Police prevented them from doing so and made several arrests.
Cantone reported from Besarabka Ploshad w
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