Skip the flowers
It’s not unlikely that many of my Estonian friends today were buying flowers or receiving them, congratulating the women in their lives. Intrinsically a sweet act, it may be somewhat of a veil trivialising a far greater and more poignant message. Women’s day is an ideal display of admirable intentions tainted through time, growing to nearly oppose what it once stood for. In some cultures, at least. While the day’s history is varied, Russia played an integral part in securing March 8 th as International Women’s Day, marking the strikes of textile workers at the beginning of the February Revolution. Kicking off the Russian Revolution and granting women the power to vote, the day was declared as an official holiday, and in 1965, a non-working day, “in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction, in the defense of their Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, in their heroism and selflessness at the front and in the rear, and also marking...