Korrigjime

”May Day is marching across the planet”

• The month of youthfulness and freshness - when the whole world around is young and innocent yet again.

• In Russia we are meeting May Day as the day of spring and labor which is official holiday.

• In Soviet time (since 1917 until 1992) it was the Day of workers’ solidarity.

• In minds of most people in age it’s until now sounds with that subtext.

• I haven’t catch that time of demonstrations and workers’ strikes, so for me it is more known in the slogan - Peace! Labor! May!

• In first May’s holidays people usually go to their dachas, to work on their earth, to enjoy the spring and to fry kebabs.

• Oh yes, now fried meat on the grill is more the symbol of May Day than once the red flag of freedom.

• Times are different now - we are fewer stands in solidarity with each other than ever before...

• May is time of blossoms too (although in most part of the country they just are seeing the first grass by now).

• In my garden is blooming now a big wild apple tree and small cherry tree, which replaced plum, cherry plum and bird cherry, whereas the blooming of pear and sweet cherry came to naught after one frosty night.

• The blooming trees are strewn with flowers and looks festively giving a pleasure to eye.

• The same time most of my cold country force to paint curbs with white lime to get their part of May decoration.

• Actually, to paint tree trunks and curbs started in the years of Great Patriotic War in case to navigate in the darkness.

• After the War cities looked awful and whitewash became a kind of cheap decoration.

• It seems that the Soviet minds are so saturated with lime and money is still in short supply that ”the tradition” of this curb’s decor is still with us.