Tanks return to Red Square

[XabbaRus]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7200669.stm

Now that I'd love to go and see.

[STEED]

This is the greatest parade ever.

1945 Victory Parade in Colour


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1945+Victory+Parade+in+Color+&search=Search

[Konovalov]

Another Putin feel good initiative. Would make for a good photography trip though. :yep:

[mrbeast]

Knida miss the military parades that the USSR used to have, I can just about remember them on the news when I was a kid.

[Onkel Neal]

Hi, I did get to see the tanks and artillery in Red Square, in 1995, during the 50th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. :)

[mrbeast]

Hi, I did get to see the tanks and artillery in Red Square, in 1995, during the 50th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. :)

That must have been very cool:cool:

[JSLTIGER]

Just another sign that things in Russia are becoming more and more like the old Soviet Union.

[Oberon]

Tanks return to Red Square, Missiles return to the Bay of Biscay (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7204286.stm)

So, when are we remilitarising the Fulda Gap? :hmm:

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Tanks return to Red Square, Missiles return to the Bay of Biscay (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7204286.stm)

So, when are we remilitarising the Fulda Gap? :hmm:

Fulda Gap? Nah, no more. Try the Estonian-Russian border :D

Actually, I bet they won't remilitarise the border. Certainly it won't become Fulda. The Russians got at least as much hostile border as they had as the Soviet Union, and a whole lot less resources to guard it with. Short of sharply extending conscription back to the good old pre-1967 days of 3-4 years, they'll never come close to scraping the correct amount of men...

[Oberon]

Yeah, I highly doubt things'll get that bad, it's just Vlad flexing the muscles and raising national morale. If we had much left in the way of military muscle then I dare say we'd flex it back, but in the meantime it's back to the old "Russia acts, we react" times.
Must make life in the Northern RADAR stations interesting... :hmm:

[elite_hunter_sh3]

steed thanks for the 1945 victory videos.. ive been looking for em.. hehe i already downloaded them :arrgh!:

[Redbrow]

hell I miss the Soviet Union as an enemy! Two steel knives rubbed together makes for a sharp edge. And their last great plan of dealing with the US, three wave nuke attack, followed by SS-9s loaded with 50 different types of super bioweapons (if one didn't get yah the other 49 would!) was just so total war - I am almost sorry I missed it! :o

[Tchocky]

hell I miss the Soviet Union as an enemy! Two steel knives rubbed together makes for a sharp edge. And their last great plan of dealing with the US, three wave nuke attack, followed by SS-9s loaded with 50 different types of super bioweapons (if one didn't get yah the other 49 would!) was just so total war - I am almost sorry I missed it! :o

I'm going to flush the "not sorry" toilet

[antikristuseke]

hell I miss the Soviet Union as an enemy! Two steel knives rubbed together makes for a sharp edge. And their last great plan of dealing with the US, three wave nuke attack, followed by SS-9s loaded with 50 different types of super bioweapons (if one didn't get yah the other 49 would!) was just so total war - I am almost sorry I missed it! :o

Im definately not sorry that the soviet onion got peeled and as a result of that my country regianed its independance after 50 years of ocupation

[Onkel Neal]

hell I miss the Soviet Union as an enemy! Two steel knives rubbed together makes for a sharp edge. And their last great plan of dealing with the US, three wave nuke attack, followed by SS-9s loaded with 50 different types of super bioweapons (if one didn't get yah the other 49 would!) was just so total war - I am almost sorry I missed it! :o

Im definately not sorry that the soviet onion got peeled and as a result of that my country regianed its independance after 50 years of ocupation

Hear! Hear!

[Onkel Neal]

Hi, I did get to see the tanks and artillery in Red Square, in 1995, during the 50th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. :)

That must have been very cool:cool:

I can't put my hands on any pictures from the military parade right now, but here's one of the Onkel (or Comrade Onkel as I was known in the USSR) at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/images/moscow10001.JPG



50 bonus points to any of you Russophiles who can tell me where I took this picture and 5 people I met there... :smug:
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/images/moscow1.JPG

[Yahoshua]

From what I can guess, it's a wall of past russian leaders?

[JSLTIGER]

Is it the cemetary where the crewmembers from K-19 that died in the nuclear accident are interred?

[dean_acheson]

Novodevichy Cemetery?

[Onkel Neal]

Novodevichy Cemetery?

Bingo!