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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: REVOLUTION DAY RALLY

(7 Nov 1995) TYPE: Eng/Russian/Nat Around ten thousand Communists gathered in Moscow's Red Square Tuesday to celebrate Revolution Day. Eng/Russian/Nat Around ten thousand Communists gathered in Moscow's Red Square Tuesday to celebrate Revolution Day. The rally was addressed by the Communist leader and Presidential hopeful Gennady Zyuganov, but most Russians failed to observe the national holiday. The formerly supreme Communist Party has split into factions since the break up of the Soviet Union, but it's been fighting back in the lead up to parliamentary elections next month. In another part of Moscow, victims of the Gulag labour camps gathered to remember the more than 20 million people who died under Soviet rule. An estimated ten thousand Communists descended on Red Square Tuesday to remember the 78th anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The rally coincided with rising fears about the resurgence of the Communist Party in Russia. The Party looks set to do well in parliamentary elections next month. But, despite this, the gathering this year was smaller than last year and, even though it's an official holiday, most Russians ignored the anniversary. There were few young people in the crowd. For some, Communism is the only creed they have known -- and rising unemployment and crime have created a nostalgia about the Communist era which makes for easy political pickings. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) The holiday of November 7th is my life, freedom, worthiness, brotherhood and peace. SUPER CAPTION: Nadezhda Chegrova, Communist supporter Older Russians in particular, resent Russia's growing unemployment -- and perceived capitulation to the West on foreign policy issues. Many of the marchers turned out to show their solidarity with Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of the reborn Communist Party. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Chernomyrdin sold out to the party, Yeltsin sold out to the party that's why things are so bad. I think we resurrect the party. We will go forward to socialism as Comrade Zyuganov says and not backwards. SUPER CAPTION: Lev Lokov, Communist supporter Zyuganov -- a Presidential hopeful -- has played on the sense of disappointment which has become wide-spread since the Soviet Union's collapse. For many, the new Russia has brought nothing but hardship. But while Zyuganov is being eyed as a possible credible threat, the Communist movement as a whole continues to be in disarray. The fortunes of the supreme Communist Party mirrored the Soviet Union. In 1991 it broke into 5 separate parties. Some of its more extreme fringes were at the rally. As were a number of foreign Communists who had come to express solidarity. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yugoslavia proves capitalism has nothing to offer humanity but suffering and war. The only hope for humanity is Communism and the only way to Communism is the way of Lenin. SUPER CAPTION: Bill Davis, U-S Communist The main street in St. Petersburg was also a sea of red flags. An estimated 20-thousand marchers strode through the city carrying anti-government placards. They marched past Russia's imperial architecture and into the Winter Palace square -- the former winter home of the Tsar's family. But for many Russians, it was a day of mourning. While the old-style Communists marched, the victims of the Gulag labour camps remembered their dead. Over 20 million people are estimated to have died under Soviet rule -- many in the labour camps scattered around the Soviet satellite states. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...