Celebrating what the comrades started

March 8, 1917, saw Soviet female textile workers in Petrograd (today's Saint Petersburg) participate in a huge, citywide protest. Their demand, 'Bread and Peace', was not airy-fairy - it wanted the ongoing World War 1 to stop, food shortages to end, and tsarism to be thrown out.

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