You know what helped hammer home the fact that the 4th of November is a holiday nobody cares about? The contrast to the amount of attention that a discontinued holiday - the 7th of November - got instead. Granted, this year it was the 100th anniversary of the October revolution, but still!
All throughout the past week we got news mentions, rallies, documentaries, thematic movies and talk show guests (a dude was claiming to be Lenin’s descendant), and 2 whole new TV series: “Trotsky” and "Demon of the Revolution”. (the latter is about Lenin, and the actor playing him is the same one that had the lead role in a space drama earlier this year, which adds a nice extra layer of surrealism to it)
So yeah, the country is still split on the question of the Octover Revolution being the worst thing that ever happened, the best thing that ever happened, or something in-between... But damn if we don’t care about it!! suck it, Unity Day
