Crowds Grow Violent as Eastern Ukraine Marks May Day

KHARKIV, Ukraine –- Against the backdrop of an escalating crisis that threatens to tear Ukraine apart, thousands turned out for May Day on Thursday in this city 20 miles from the Russian border

In typical fashion, Communist Party members and pro-Russia groups paraded down main drags waving hammer-and-sickle flags of decades past while marching to traditional Soviet labor tunes.

The group was smaller than in previous years, with a mere 1,000 or so gathering in Kharkiv's central Freedom Square. Rally-goers carried portraits of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, and at least one — taking a page from Paul McCartney’s songbook — donned a sign that read: “Back to the USSR.” Read more...

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