Cursory googling tells me the yellow areas also celebrate a worker’s holiday on 1 May, it is just also a spring celebration, with the exception of Kazakhstan where they apparently celebrate all the ethnicities specifically as a post-soviet replacement for Labor Day.
This kind of giving up disguised as radicalism exists in every dialectic of oppression I can think of. It’s all very Christian, no praxis is possible but when you die you go to heaven and they go to hell.