Lenin Forgotten, Moscow Workers to Honor Easter
Moscow administrators have decided to retain a vintage Communist tradition of civic pride but dedicate it to Easter, rather than Lenin, the Russian Itar-Tass news agency said Tuesday.
Under a practice known as Subbotnik--the working Saturday--worthy citizens give a day’s free labor to clean the winter-ravaged city after the spring thaw.
They will still toil on customary city projects, but no longer to mark the April 22 birthday of state founder and staunch atheist V. I. Lenin.
Tass said Muscovites this year will give up their time to honor Easter.
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