Huge drone strikes reported as Russia readies Victory Day security
1/ It's not just this Saturday's Victory Day parade that's been cancelled or cut back in Moscow; so too has the city's annual cleanup, for the first time in over a hundred years. The city will have to remain dirty for another year. ⬇️
ChrisO_wiki552/ Cleanup days, or subbotniks, originated in the spring of 1919 under Lenin's rule. They started as voluntary events mainly for communists (Komsomol members) and sympathisers. In later years, they became a familiar, characteristic feature of the "socialist way of life."
Militant Nerd16Fun fact: There was a story that at the first subbotnik Lenin carried a log, which is shown on a postal stamp you attached. In time so many people claimed they helped Vladimir Ilyich to carry it that Soviet joke said the log must've been a kilometer long.
