Photo top: They usually find the youngest school starter [always seven] and she is given a short little speech to make. Sometimes the oldest students make a speech but usually the Director of the School and senior staff make the speeches.
Year 9s or 10s often dance and put on a performance of some kind. It's also the done thing for the children to give flowers to the favourite teachers but at older year levels, this is seen as uncool and rarely done. After school, older kids often go into town and there's a sea of balck and white.
Russian boys dress up in suits and girls wear the traditional white blouse and black skirt, with hair in ribbons.
Photo 2: This is Georgia and though the colours differ, the cermonies are the same. See the children in the large U in the background? The teachers will all be up on the steps at the top of the U and the parents will be standing back behind the children. It's usually outdoors and the weather is often good. One of the reasons for being outdoors is that the assembly hall often can't contain the whole school and even then, they do the welcome in three shifts, with different year levels in each.
Photo 3: The universities go back too and though this shot is not of September 1st, they do celebrate it. Strangely, though I was at that university for 10 years, I never attended a September 1st, mainly because I was at the school one instead. These were my students of 501 and 502 groups.
Photo 4: September 1st is also the commemoration of Beslan, covered at the end of this link, with pics of two of the murderers who have a cell in London, one alleged connection being Berezovsky, protected by the British government. The Russians managed to get one of them - Litvinenko and another, Politkovskaya, also quite complicit, they got too but the others remain free to roam around London. Please spend time to watch this video too.To the left are photos of all the teachers and children murdered in the name of Chechyen "independence" and in the name of Allah [blessed be His name]. I wonder what Allah [blessed be His name] actually thought of this slaughter of the innocents. Would He have been well pleased or would He have consigned the murderers who abused His name to the hell they deserved ?
Click the pic to see the faces of the victims.
Thanks for the reminder. Memory eternal!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't make it all the way through the vid. Terrible.
ReplyDeleteThat the Russians also committed atrocities in Chechnya is conceded by most Russians I know and the whole cycle of violence is abhorrent.
ReplyDeleteThe root cause is that Chechnya is the prime portal of everything from Islam to drugs coming into Russia, aided and abetted by the southern nations.
An analogy is the Highland clearances, with the Scots replying [which they didn't of course but it's an analogy] with a pogrom in Berwick.
There is more to this atrocity than was ever published by the MSM. See links under 'Beslan - Child rape, torture and ritual murder' at The Religion of Peace™ Subject Index
ReplyDeleteThanks, Moss.
ReplyDeleteDeeply etched on the memory. I was shocked that work colleagues had forgotten about it.
ReplyDeleteThen the theatre attack later on.
Bungling by the authorities in both cases.
I really would like to see this better remembered in Britain. Look at that top pic of those little kids and then imagine them dead. Well, I can't actually imagine it.
ReplyDeleteThe role of the authorities again was a reminder that when government goes near anything, they b---er it up. They can keep their hands off the City for a start.
Politkovskaya?
ReplyDeleteShe was a journalist who opposed the Chechnya war and was harrassed and finally murdered by Putin's creatures.
What are you suggesting she is complicit in?
Is there some conspiracy theory here that I haven't understood?
Weekend Yachtsman - no, she wasn't involved in any conspiracy theory, jsut with Basayev who murdered all those children.
ReplyDeleteShe and Litvinenko were shown to be up to their necks with the London cell - hence what was done.
Of course, over here, the media presented nothing of that, esp. the Beeb, and therefore you have the view most Brits have - that it was the other way round.
Actually, it was an execution.
Things which are presented so black and white - that she was a freedom fighter, for example, should always be viewed with a healthy dose of scepticism.
Even our own heroes had their skeletons, so why shouldn't the Russian ones?