May Day Rallying Cries in Moscow
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MOSCOW — Western Kremlinologists once scrutinized slogans used in May Day parades for clues to emerging Soviet government policies. The signs and banners carried by union workers and radicals across Red Square on Tuesday reflected both bread-and-butter concerns and political demands. Here is a sampler:
For Real Work, Real Pay
Food Is No Luxury
No to the Lowering of the Standard of Living
We Want to Live, Not Just Exist
Prices Under the Control of the Unions
Socialism? No Thanks!
The Blockade of Lithuania Is the Shame of the President
Dictator Equals President Without Elections
Down With the Empire of Red Fascism
72 Years on the Road to Nowhere.
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