Celebrations were held in Brest on November 7: a rally on Lenin Square and a rally to the Brest Fortress

Preserve and multiply traditions. The anniversary of the October Revolution is celebrated throughout the country. In Brest, a solemn rally was held on Lenin Square.

With flags and flowers, residents gathered to pay homage to history and remember events that influenced the fate of the country. Next to those who were born in the Union and since childhood understands the meaning of the holiday - the young generation, for whom the meaning of this date is only being revealed.

Yuri Segenyuk, head of the Brest Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus: After all, thanks to 1917, we did have social guarantees: an eight-hour working day, affordable education, housing, medicine. And you know, the Soviet Union, of course, was a strong country that won the Great Patriotic War, which built our country further in the postwar period. We were the first to go into space. And all these achievements are thanks, of course, to this Great October.

Participants of the rally visited an exhibition of retro cars, which later went to the festive rally. Drivers are those for whom the date of November 7 is still of particular importance.

Vitaly Demidov: I have many pieces of equipment. There is a field kitchen, GAZ-69, and here are my cars - this is PAS and GAZ-51. This is our past, this is our past, this is our past life, in which we grew up, lived, and this is every time the memories of our childhood and how we lived. It’s a time machine that takes us back to a time when we were so young, and our memories are so precious.

The rally ended with the laying of flowers to the Eternal Fire of the Brest Fortress. Celebrations have become an occasion to remember the past and talk about what is important for people today.

Read also:

1. 1.Belarus celebrates October Revolution Day