Nostalgia dei padri rossi

(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

07/11/2009 A red banner with portraits of Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, right-left, is carried during a Communist demonstration marking the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Moscow, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Nov. 7 was for decades a holiday celebrating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that ushered in more than 70 years of Soviet rule. Former President Vladimir Putin abolished a holiday on Nov. 7 four years ago.