1st May

AFP March 7,1998: Red flags fluttered in the heart of Moscow and loud speakers played deafening Soviet military as Russians marked the 41st anniversary of death of Comrade Josef Stalin. Some, waving pictures of Stalin and Soviet state founder V.Lenin, listened as one speaker after another praised the virtues of socialism. Many accused Boris Yeltsin of trying to erase all traces of Stalin from Russain political life. "Even Churchill stood in respect for Stalin in his time. Yelsin is destroying the Soviet people, the powerful Soviet state built under Stalin," Shouted one speaker.


	People of Russia on Ist May AFP March 7,1998: Red flags fluttered in the heart of Moscow and loud speakers played deafening Soviet military as Russians marked the 41st anniversary of death of Comrade Josef Stalin. Some, waving pictures of Stalin and Soviet state founder V.Lenin, listened as one speaker after another praised the virtues of socialism. Many accused Boris Yeltsin of trying to erase all traces of Stalin from Russain political life. "Even Churchill stood in respect for Stalin in his time. Yelsin is destroying the Soviet people, the powerful Soviet state built under Stalin," Shouted one speaker.