International (Marxist) Women’s Day – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

Question: What do International Women’s Day and Vladimir Putin have in common?
Answer: Both were promoted by the KGB.
It is upon us once again: International Women’s Day. I’ve been writing about it here every year since our dumbed-down modern culture started mindlessly celebrating this Marxist holiday, utterly unaware of its poisonous roots. Here’s a good description of those roots, captured contemporaneously in a 1920 statement by leading Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai:
The 8th of March is a historic and memorable day for all the Russian workers and for the workers of the whole world. In 1917, on this day, the great February revolution broke out. It was the working women of Petersburg who began this revolution….
In 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, Clara Zetkin brought forward the question of organizing an International Working Women’s Day. The conference decided that every year, in every country, they should celebrate on the same day a “Women’s Day” under the slogan “The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism”.…
“Working Women’s Day” was first organized ten years ago in the campaign for the … struggle for socialism. This aim has been achieved by the working class women in Russia [in] the soviet republic.
Kollontai here referred to comrade Clara Zetkin, the infamous German socialist. In 1910, Zetkin had proposed the following motion at the Copenhagen Conference of the Second International: “The Socialist women of all countries will hold each year a Women’s Day, whose foremost purpose it must be to aid the attainment of women’s suffrage. This demand must be handled in conjunction with the entire women’s question according to Socialist precepts.”
Yes, IWD was indeed a national holiday in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries. Those are the facts.
Zetkin became the founding patroness of International Women’s Day (IWD), with Kollontai picking up the torch a decade later at the Kremlin and at th…