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Old 11-08-2009, 15:36 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Red Square parade 2009

Red Square parade focuses on WW2, not Revolution
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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.
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Old 11-08-2009, 23:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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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?
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Old 11-09-2009, 03:38 AM   #3 (permalink)
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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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Old 11-09-2009, 03:53 AM   #4 (permalink)
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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
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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).
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I love it. It is "enemy at the gate" all over again.
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that makes sense, in one pic only half the soldiers have rifles
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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
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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?
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that makes sense, in one pic only half the soldiers have rifles
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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...
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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
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na they would only alter the photos and arrest anyone who mentiones it.
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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.
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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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