Posted on 09/25/2012 2:16:21 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
A Pennsylvania high school marching band has caused outrage by commemorating the Russian Revolution in a halftime performance - brandishing red flags, military uniforms, hammers and sickles.
Historians and parents of students at New Oxford High School have lambasted the choice of entertainment which remembers an event that gave way to Communism and the deaths of millions.
Even though the school's colours are red, white and blue, they have adopted the theme of 'St Petersburg: 1917' for their halftime shows, including one last Friday, Fox News reported.
'It was Glee meets the Russian Revolution,' a concerned parent told Fox. 'They had giant hammers and sickles and they were waving them around. 'There is no reason for Americans to celebrate the Russian revolution. I am sure the millions who died under Communism would not see the joy of celebrating the Russian revolution by a school 10 miles from Gettysburg.'
Paul Kengor, the executive director for the Center for Vision & Values at Pennsylvania's Grove City College, added that he originally thought the performance was a joke.
'This is surreal,' he said. 'The Bolshevik Revolution launched a global Communist revolution that from 1917 through the 1990s was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people.
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Oh my God, we over looked the band teachers! It would be the last time my child was a member of that band. They have some nerve!!
My child would drop band, post haste, until a new band director could be found.
People should be outraged.
Those kids don’t even know what this is about
The climax was the execution of the Romanov’s ?
Best description I have heard of this was “Lenin Meets Glee”
Obama may be embracing the brotherhoood but libs are going straight for Communism..where it counts ..in our schoolds
Obama may be embracing the brotherhoood but libs are going straight for Communism..where it counts ..in our schools
Neither did the Hitler Youth. That’s the scary part Geron.
I was going to say the same thing... but you beat me to it. It’s not their fault... hang the band director.
I am sick and tired of these liberal teachers that think they know what’s best for our kids!
A good one from Boney M.
“There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the bible like a preacher
Full of ecstacy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia’s greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on
He ruled the Russian land and never mind the czar
But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar
In all affairs of state he was the man to please
But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze
For the queen he was no wheeler dealer
Though she’d heard the things he’d done
She believed he was a holy healer
Who would heal her son
(Spoken:)
But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
for power became known to more and more people,
the demands to do something about this outrageous
man became louder and louder.
“This man’s just got to go!” declared his enemies
But the ladies begged “Don’t you try to do it, please”
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they’re not to blame
“Come to visit us” they kept demanding
And he really came
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia’s greatest love machine
He drank it all and he said “I feel fine”
RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They didn’t quit, they wanted his head
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia’s greatest love machine
And so they shot him till he was dead
Oh, those Russians...”
STUNNED SILENCE
Put “The Black Book of Communism” on the Summer reading list. Then administer a 150+ question exam on it the first week back in school.
Hey, those kids know it was a “revolution.”
American, Bolshevik, sexual.... whatev!
/sarc
YHGTBSM.
The principal ought to hang alongside. And where were the parents of these kids who’ve been rehearsing this half-time program? You’re telling me nobody knew or noticed what was going on until the performance? Sure.
there’s no list of the songs they performed though I wonder if they played “L’Internationale” whether they had to pay a royalty for it?
I am no longer shocked. These kids can’t have any idea what they are doing. 100 years ago is ancient history to them. As for Rebecca Hairball, the Superintendent... she is playing a little too dumb. She and the band director know exactly what they are doing.
Rebecca Harbaugh, the superintendent for the Conewago Valley School District, told Fox News that the band’s performance was “not an endorsement of communism at all.”
“It’s a representation of the time period in history called St. Petersburg 1917,” she said. “I am truly sorry that somebody took the performance in that manner. I am.”
“If anything is being celebrated it’s the music,” she said. “It is what it is. I understand people look at something and choose how to interpret that and I’m just very sorry that it wasn’t looked at as just a history lesson.”
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