Signs, Shouts of Soviet Anger

Never before have the Kremlin’s high walls echoed to such words of fury on Revolution Day. As rival processions of right-wingers and radicals trooped across Red Square’s slippery cobbles, these were some of the slogans they shouted or the protest signs they raised, symptoms of growing Soviet anger:

RADICALS:

--”1917--the Crime. 1990--the Punishment.”

--”Communism Is Worse Than AIDS.”

--”The Fascists Annihilated Other Peoples, the CPSU (Soviet Communist Party) Its Own.”

--”It’s Easier to Win the Nobel Prize Than to Harvest Potatoes” (a reference to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s winning of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize amid the Soviet Union’s economic crisis).

RIGHT-WINGERS:

--”Throw the Anti-Communist Gorbachev Out of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”

--”Yeltsin Is the Kept Man of the CIA.”

--”Democratic Russia Is the Trump Card of Zionist Terror.”