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The
worst thing is that Americans are to blame for this holiday. It began
on March 8, 1857, when women garment workers in New York went on strike
to protest working conditions and low wages. It was later declared
International Women’s Day by a group of European women socialists and
then brought to Soviet Russia. For decades in Russia, it was a
combination of Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day, with a bit of spring
celebration thrown in. Today, it remains a day when men spend too much
on flowers and try to come up with too clever speeches. Мы
женщину сегодня славим. Ей пальму первенства несём. От всей
души её поздравим С весенним мирным Женским днём. It’s
Woman whom today we praise A golden palm to her we raise!
From our heart we congratulate her, On Women’s Day we glorify her!
Мужчины, берегите женщин, Чтоб сберегли они мужчин. Men, take care of women So that they will take care of men.
Мы
поднимаем свои бокалы за 8 Марта — единственный день в году, когда
женщина соглашается со всем, что говорится в её адрес! We raise our glasses to March 8 — the only day in the year when a woman agrees with everything that’s said about her!
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