BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

08/11/2007

Belarus Celebrates Anniversary Of October Revolution

Speaking on November 7, celebrated as the 90th anniversary of the October Revolution, Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka said that the events of 1917 led to an independent Belarus, Belapan reported. "Thanks to the triumph of the Great October, the dream of many generations of Belarusians has come true -- we have acquired an independent state open to friends," Lukashenka said in his address to the country. Belarusian leftist forces commemorated the anniversary by laying flowers by a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Minsk. The commemoration was held on behalf of both Belarusian communist parties -- the government-supported Communist Party of Belarus (KPB) and the opposition Belarusian Party of Communists (PKB), which has been suspended for six months by a Supreme Court ruling. PKB leader Syarhey Kalyakin said that the ideals of the October Revolution were "generally correct," but "what really existed in the Soviet Union differed greatly from the goals declared in October 1917." AM

Source:

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2007/11/3-cee/cee-081107.asp