Communism is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the October Revolution.
    In the early eighties, I spent a few years in the Soviet Union, working in refineries and chemical plants.
I lived in three different soviet republics.
There was a lot of obvious propaganda at that time.
On their television, they would show scenes from the American Depression era.
However they had their viewers convinced that the clips were from the early 80's, rather than the early 30's.
    Things there, also, seemed to work on the fink system, i.e. 1 fink for every 30 persons, or there about.
If someone came home from work, later than usual, or from a different direction, the fink would report it.
If it seemed suspicious, or to simply keep people on their toes, the KGB would talk to the person.
Even if they had a perfectly legitimate reason for being later than usual, the person would be terrified.
    They wanted every American, living there, to read, Ten Days That Shook The World, by John Reed.
He was an American journalist who witnessed the October Revolution, and wrote about it.
    When still in undergraduate studies, before I was saved, I sincerely believed that socialism was the answer.
A couple years after grad school, I was working briefly in North Dakota.
I was in a laundry mat, and saw a book someone left there, on top of one the machines.
It was a copy of the Blue Book of the John Birch Society.
I read it, and then read 1984 - my mind was blown - as if, "How could those books possibly be true?"
Then, the next week, my company sent me off to work in the Soviet Union.
After a few years there, it completely erased all hopes from my mind, that socialism would help the world.
    By the way, everywhere, there were large banners, and sometimes picture banners.
A common picture banner would depict Marx, Engels, and Lenin, together.
Once on a bus, there were American and French workers, and the ubiquitous translators (actually KGB).
As we drove past one, a friend of mine pointed to the banner of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, and said,
    "Look, Gino, Moe, Larry, and Curly".
The Americans all laughed, but the translators then desperately tried to find out the meaning of the joke.
Clearly, no one decided to explain it to them - good thing.
Anyway, that is why I find the following a bit humorous.

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Was it these three?

Or was it these three?
  

Or was it these three?

The centennial celebration of the formation of the workers paradise, or so it was called.
Октябрьская Революция !!!
Their calendar was still different at that time, then, on that calendar, it was still October, not November.