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Communist supporters carry portraits of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, from left, during a rally to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolution, marking a long-sacred former holiday that was an official working day for the first time in decades in Moscow, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005. President Vladimir Putin signed a law late last year canceling the Nov. 7 holiday that used to mark the anniversary of the 1917 revolution and replacing it with the Day of People's Unity, a Nov. 4 celebration of the end of Polish intervention in 1612. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)