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| Remembering the fallen |
by New Worker correspondent
New Communist Party leader Andy Brooks joined diplomats, trade unionists and local dignitaries at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in Southwark on Sunday 13th November to honour the 27 million Soviet citizens who died in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.
New Communist Party leader Andy Brooks joined diplomats, trade unionists and local dignitaries at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in Southwark on Sunday 13th November to honour the 27 million Soviet citizens who died in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany.
There were brief speeches from Philip
Matthews, the chair of the Soviet Memorial Trust Fund, Southwark mayor Kath
Whittam, local Labour MP Neil Coyle and Alexander Kramarenko from the Russian
embassy.
Wreaths were laid by diplomats from the
Russian and Belarus embassies along with other floral tributes from the NCP,
the Marx Memorial Library, veterans associations and representatives from the
Russian community in London.
The ceremony ended with the exhortation
spoken by Russian Convoy Club veteran Stanley Ballard, followed by two minutes
silence and the reveille.
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