Red Square parade 2009

xinhui · 11-08-2009, 15:36 PM

Red Square parade focuses on WW2, not Revolution
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2009-11-07 05:29 PM
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Russian soldiers in period uniforms have marched across Red Square to re-enact a famous World War II parade.

Red Army soldiers marched on Moscow's Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, and headed straight to the front line dozens of kilometers (miles) away to fend off the Nazi onslaught on the city.

Nov. 7 for decades was a national holiday celebrating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution that ushered in more than 70 years of Soviet rule.

Saturday's parade featured soldiers clad in World War II uniforms brandishing red banners and carrying World War II-era weapons. It reflected Kremlin efforts to draw attention away from the revolution in favor of Russia's wartime triumphs.

Former President Vladimir Putin abolished the Nov. 7 holiday four years ago.

**TopHatter** · 11-08-2009, 23:49 PM

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Originally Posted by xinhui

Saturday's parade featured soldiers clad in World War II uniforms brandishing red banners and carrying World War II-era weapons.

Good god, those are some really spooky pictures for some reason.

Is it because it's almost like somebody had a high-quality digital camera back in 1941?

Or is it sadness that those boys were running headlong to their certain deaths?

StevoJH · 11-09-2009, 03:38 AM

Wonder how much the Uniforms cost, and which warehouse those weapons have spent the last 70 years sitting.

Is it just me, or do the uniforms and banners in the bottom photo look more Imperial then Communist?

Andrey Egorov · 11-09-2009, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by StevoJH

Wonder how much the Uniforms cost, and which warehouse those weapons have spent the last 70 years sitting.

Is it just me, or do the uniforms and banners in the bottom photo look more Imperial then Communist?

The first one is VVS banner from Soviet Union. Second one is truly imperial, St. Andrew's flag, russian naval flag

**astralis** · 11-09-2009, 10:32 AM

hard to beat the russkis when it comes to these events. they beat the chinese, whom obviously try too hard, and the nkoreans (plain out creepy).

xinhui · 11-09-2009, 19:02 PM

astralis

I love it. It is "enemy at the gate" all over again.

**astralis** · 11-09-2009, 19:26 PM

that makes sense, in one pic only half the soldiers have rifles

andrew · 11-09-2009, 20:18 PM

Something wrong with these pictures.
The Gates (left) and the Chirch (right) were blown up by Stalin in the 30s.
They were restored by Elzin in the 90s

**TopHatter** · 11-09-2009, 20:25 PM

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Originally Posted by andrew

Something wrong with these pictures.
The Gates (left) and the Chirch (right) were blown up by Stalin in the 30s.
They were restored by Elzin in the 90s

And that picture was taken on Saturday. What's the problem?

Moroz · 11-09-2009, 20:41 PM

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Originally Posted by astralis

that makes sense, in one pic only half the soldiers have rifles

Hi is a great Kung Fu Master! Hi has a deadly finger!

It's my favorit song 'bout Moscow battle:

Years later:

ace16807 · 11-09-2009, 20:49 PM

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Originally Posted by andrew

Something wrong with these pictures.
The Gates (left) and the Chirch (right) were blown up by Stalin in the 30s.
They were restored by Elzin in the 90s

They're not going to demolish the buildings that weren't around in the 40's to make it era-accurate just for a re-enactment...

**TopHatter** · 11-09-2009, 21:11 PM

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They're not going to demolish the buildings that weren't around in the 40's to make it era-accurate just for a re-enactment...

The Russians? Probably not.

The CCP would. Count on it

Tarek Morgen · 11-09-2009, 23:02 PM

na they would only alter the photos and arrest anyone who mentiones it.

**TopHatter** · 11-09-2009, 23:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Tarek Morgen

na they would only alter the photos and arrest anyone who mentiones it.

Whenever I read about altered Soviet photos, that little rat-faced Nikolai Yezhov always comes to mind.

Tarek Morgen · 11-09-2009, 23:22 PM

I wonder if it had not been easier for the soviets to never make pictures of Stalin and simply copy him into the pictures when needed then to alter everyone out of the pictures with him that had fallen from grace.

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astralis *Foreign Service* Global Moderator Lei Feng Protege Join Date: 08-23-05 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 5,797 Country:	hard to beat the russkis when it comes to these events. they beat the chinese, whom obviously try too hard, and the nkoreans (plain out creepy). __________________ The human mind cannot grasp the causes of phenomena in the aggregate. But the need to find these causes is inherent in man’s soul. And the human intellect, without investigating the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions of phenomena, any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, snatches at the first, the most intelligible approximation to a cause, and says: “This is the cause!" -Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

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Tarek Morgen *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 02-08-07 Location: Kassel Posts: 1,862 Country:	na they would only alter the photos and arrest anyone who mentiones it. __________________ uh I might be wrong

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StevoJH Patron Join Date: 06-24-09 Location: Armidale, NSW Posts: 191 Country:	Wonder how much the Uniforms cost, and which warehouse those weapons have spent the last 70 years sitting. Is it just me, or do the uniforms and banners in the bottom photo look more Imperial then Communist?

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xinhui Forum Moderator Lei Feng Protege *Defense Professional* Join Date: 05-17-06 Posts: 4,408 Country:	astralis I love it. It is "enemy at the gate" all over again.

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astralis *Foreign Service* Global Moderator Lei Feng Protege Join Date: 08-23-05 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 5,797 Country:	that makes sense, in one pic only half the soldiers have rifles

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Tarek Morgen *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 02-08-07 Location: Kassel Posts: 1,862 Country:	I wonder if it had not been easier for the soviets to never make pictures of Stalin and simply copy him into the pictures when needed then to alter everyone out of the pictures with him that had fallen from grace.

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