Did communist countries celebrate Bastille Day?

by Orcris

Many communists glorify the French Revolution as the bourgeois revolution that crushed feudalism throughout Europe and transitioned the continent to capitalism. Because of this, did any of the communist countries recognize Bastille Day as an official holiday and/or hold celebrations for it?

WommyTiseau

did any of the communist countries recognize Bastille Day as an official holiday and/or hold celebrations for it?

No, no socialist states held Bastille Day as an official holiday, and if any of them held any celebrations they certainly weren't major. I can't find any records saying that the USSR, Yugoslavia, PRC or Albania held any celebrations for it. The Paris Commune was held at a much higher regard than the French Revolution, as it was viewed as a living example of a Dictatorship of the proletariat ^^^1, ^^^2.

The Marxist-Leninist view of the French Revolution was that it delivered one of the final blows to feudalism, that it was a bourgeois revolution and that as a bourgeois revolution it was more or less akin to the American revolution. Marxists view history as moving in spirals, and by the displacing and subsequent replacing of a class by another, so the displacement of the French aristocracy only replaced it with a new exploitative class. ^^^3 So,while progressive and revolutionary for its time, it is not proletarian in its class character. By celebrating a bourgeois revolution, a Marxist is celebrating the gains of the bourgeoisie, not the proletarian masses.'

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