So Russia has a holiday on Monday

[mendeleev 68]

So my fiance tells me that Monday is a holiday in Russia. November 7 used to be a holiday to commemorate the Great October Revolution.

But communism is out of fashion, more or less, so they can't celebrate that anymore. But my Tanya cannot tell me what this holiday is.

Other Russian friends tell me it has to do with some great victory Russia had over the Poles a few hundred years ago. What is this victory?

Does this holiday memorialize the first partition of Poland, when, as memory serves, Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary partitioned Poland and led to its extinction as an independent state for a couple hundred years? (And, if so, what do the Poles have to say about this holiday?)

[john_and_marlene 162]

People's Unity Day

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/...63705cd201.html

[rellik 0]

Try this: http://www.russianembassy.org/

Click on holidays on the left side...Looks like it's "National Unity Day"

***Sorry for a redundant post...I wasn't quick enough....

So my fiance tells me that Monday is a holiday in Russia. November 7 used to be a holiday to commemorate the Great October Revolution.

But communism is out of fashion, more or less, so they can't celebrate that anymore. But my Tanya cannot tell me what this holiday is.

Other Russian friends tell me it has to do with some great victory Russia had over the Poles a few hundred years ago. What is this victory?

Does this holiday memorialize the first partition of Poland, when, as memory serves, Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary partitioned Poland and led to its extinction as an independent state for a couple hundred years? (And, if so, what do the Poles have to say about this holiday?)

Edited November 2, 2006 by rellik

[workin4somethin 0]

So my fiance tells me that Monday is a holiday in Russia. November 7 used to be a holiday to commemorate the Great October Revolution.

But communism is out of fashion, more or less, so they can't celebrate that anymore. But my Tanya cannot tell me what this holiday is.

I have been told that the main difference today is the name of the holiday, but it is now supposed to be a day of remembrance rather than a day of celebration.

November 7 is Day of Accord and Reconciliation. This holiday is celebrated in Russia since 1996. Prior to 1996, November 7 was an important Soviet holiday - Anniversary of Great October Socialist Revolution.