Communist Party High School Closed
Anatoly Vavilov, a director at Moscow’s Party High School, Wednesday gathered his books on Marxist economics and said farewell to the institute that educated Communist functionaries for decades.
Early Wednesday morning, a group of Moscow city officials placed a seal on the front entrance to the school without warning and ordered all employees to leave.
The high school, where world-renowned Communists like former Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek studied the Communist Manifesto, was closed by city authorities acting upon a presidential confiscation order.
When the Party High School reopens, it will become the Russian Humanitarian University under the direction of Yuri Afanasyev, a respected Soviet historian and leader in the country’s democratic movement.
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