Hey Moscow, Your Soviet Is Showing
By Wyatt Earp | January 2, 2010
It warms the heart to know that Russia is starting the New Year with dignity and class. They are letting people express themselves, and embracing freedom for every single citizen.
Oh yeah, they are also manhandling “dangerous” 82-year old women. Lovely.
MOSCOW – Police detained dozens of anti-Kremlin activists, including an 82-year-old Soviet dissident dressed as Santa Claus’ female helper, at a New Year’s Eve rally on Moscow’s main shopping street Thursday.
Hundreds of riot police surrounded a Christmas tree in the centre of the city and arrested the opposition activists as they gathered to defend their right to peaceful protest.
A man dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, was dragged through the snow to a waiting bus. Soviet-era dissident and rally organiser Lyudmila Alexeyeva, dressed as Snegurochka, Father Frost’s female assistant in Russian fairy tales, was escorted to a bus by riot police.
Dude, really? The woman is 82-years old. I highly doubt she is going to overpower the Moscow Police Department.
Topics: Snarkasm | 6 Comments »
January 2nd, 2010 at 3:51 pm
She’s small, but she’s wiry!
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Proof – She might be one of Stalin’s ex-wives! Shoot her!
January 2nd, 2010 at 4:51 pm
JBTs strike again… sigh…
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Old NFO – Seems to be a recurring pattern.
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:10 pm
and fast…
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
I know it sounds strange, but it’s actually an improvement over the old USSR… Back then, the protesters would’ve just disappeared and it would’ve never been reported at all.
The idea of freedom of anything is taking a while to percolate through Russia, but at least it’s getting there, according to some of the Russians that I read.