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There is an interesting history here in Ivanovo.  You would never hear about this city, in a US history class, but here it is tought that the very first soviout revolutionarys came from this citie.  It is a and was a factory town, and it only makes sence for labor inequalitys to fule such ideas.  In my History class last semester when we coverd the Russian Revolution, Ivanovo was not mentioned.  When I asked my profesor why, he said it was not important were things started.

There is a monument at the very center of Ivanovo.

The dying solder drops the flag, and another will always pick it up and continue the fight.  

Also it is considered an old man passing on the flag to the new generation.

A rose grows from a factory pipe.

These are at the very center of town.  It is a local tradition for wedding partys to come to this monument.  Another local wedding tradition is to take a lock and atach it to a bridge.  We have walked acrose 2 bridges a number of times and both have many locks atached to them.  Some very new locks, and some very old.  Masha wants me to spesify that the wedding tradition of visiting the monument is for the one with the flag passing, and not the factory pipe.  I was confused since they are at the same location, but I guess it is spesific.