Police in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia has detained two participants of a rally marking the centenary of the October Revolution for having unfolded flags featuring Communist symbols.
Around a hundred elderly residents led by local Communist leaders gathered near the eternal flame in the city’s Freedom Square on November 7, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported. Participants holding red flags sporting no symbols held a rally exposing “murderous democracy” and criticizing the government.
After the event, several of those assembled unfolded Communist flags. Law-enforcement representatives asked them to remove the prohibited attributes of Soviet power, but their request was ignored.
Following this, the police detained two aggressive activists – a man and a woman – and seized from them a red banner with an emblem of the Soviet Union. The pair were taken to the city’s Oleksandrivsky district police department.
The police said that the people unfolding the red banner had thus violated the Ukrainian law banning Communist symbols.
