Not that it will do any good, let me point out that the comment about Soviet Mayday marches with soldiers and tanks is a complete fallacy. I actually attended the 1978 Moscow Mayday parade as a tourist, and noticed nothing military. I asked, and it was explained that Americans alway confused the military parade on November 7 (the anniversary of the October Revolution) with the Mayday parade. There were military elements in Mayday parades only a few times, mostly during World War II. (I looked it up, and they were right.) The Mayday parade I saw in Moscow in 1978 looked a lot like some of today's parades, with groups of workers, not "marching" but walking, lots of flowers, and the signs mostly from unions, with a few neighborhoods and workplaces and peace organizations. In a very smart move, the last group of workers was the streetcleaners, complete with their machines, and after the parade passed by the route was spotless. There were relatively few onlookers, mostly tourists and older people who could not walk far easily, as most of the people there were part of the parade. Quite a nice, friendly event. All the old cliches used in this article are completely inapplicable to a Moscow Mayday parade of the last 40 years of the Soviet era. If you wanted to see a military parade, you had to wait for November. -Kevin Akin