Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 17:27:18 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Lenin, Zetkin, Marx on sex? -Reply


     It sticks in my mind that Clara Zetkin was the
inventor/founder of International Womens' Day, ironically
enough while in the US in around 1909.  The "first Russian
Revolution" (that overthrew the tsar) was triggered by a
demonstration by women on that day, banging pots and pans
over food shortages and other problems---Feb. 26 (?) on the
old Russian calendar (the "February Revolution") and March
8 on the Gregorian.
     Anybody able to confirm/deny/correct any of the above?
Needless to say it is ironic that a holiday invented in the
US (if that is correct) is barely celebrated here at all.
     BTW, quack, quack, quack, :-).
Barkley Rosser


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