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Originally Posted by S-2
Many don't know if Russia does threaten us or not. Your parades were once brutal displays of raw power and were unmissed except by intelligence analysts who prized the opportunity to view the latest in Soviet equipment. They served to intimidate us and inspire you. I note no functional difference now in this parade's purpose.
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I shall repeat - the purpose of these parades: tradition and a call of patriotic feelings. That I read in Russian the Internet-forums speaks me about what time spent for this parade - is spent not in empty.
Military parades also pass all over the world: on June, 13th in France; on October, 29th in Turkey; on January, 26th in India; on September, 9th in Northern Korea; on July, 5th in Venezuela.
Military parades in Russia is too ancient tradition, it existed even before education of the USA. Passage of technics is partially a tribute to parades during imperial time (when went horse build and guns lasted), and partially - memory of parade on November, 7th, 1941 when the technics left from the Red Area directly in fights near Moscow.
Yes, this distinction of cultures. I for example do not understand, what for in the USA flags (schools, streets) everywhere are hanged out, and the symbolics of a flag is used everywhere - from cowards up to benches. Probably, this your patriotic education, but I consider that it is "symbolism" and in some part "false patriotism" (superfluous expenditure of a paint
).