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For those of us old enough to remember Moscow's "October Revolution"
parades in Red Square, this explians why they were held in November --
Russia did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until after the Bolsheviks
seized power in 1917 -- the Red revolution took place in (late October,
1917/Julian).