Pennsylvania: “St. Petersburg 1917,” a musical commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution

Communism on Parade? 

High School Marches to Marx and Lenin

by Paul G. Kengor

“What do you think of this?” 

So began a phone call from Todd Starnes of FoxNews radio. Starnes asked me for a comment on a shocking story: A band at a high school near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania performed a halftime show titled, “St. Petersburg 1917,” a musical commemoration of the Bolshevik Revolution, replete with hammers and sickles, military uniforms, and red flags.

“No way,” I responded. “Are you sure this wasn’t a joke, a parody?”

It wasn’t. And parents of the students aren’t laughing.

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