Communist MPs and sympathizers of the Communist Party (PCRM) Thursday laid flowers at the monument to the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ylich Lenin at “Moldexpo”, on the occasion of the October Revolution. In the event, the Communist MPs read a statement by which they call on the government coalition to dismiss the Cabinet by November 21 and to announce early parliamentary elections. Otherwise, the PCRM will bring together its sympathizers from all over the country to a large-scale protest, IPN reports.

The leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin said the October Revolution continues to cause panic, but it also brings hope for a better future. “The October Revolution removed the division of peoples into rich and poor and gave the most serious blow to nationalism. This is what real revolution and real revolutionaries mean,” he stated.

The Communist sympathizers who came with flowers at the monument to Lenin said that November 7 should be declared a holiday.  According to them, the current government steals what was built and done in the Communist period. That’s why it is the duty of those who have the Socialist period in their memory to defend Moldova from traitors and enemies. “Lenin did everything for the ordinary people to live well, to be able to study and to have jobs and it’s a pity not to honor him,” said a pensioner from Chisinau.

The October Revolution is also named the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. It was a coup by which the Bolsheviks took over the power from the Kerenski Government.