Posted on 04/09/2024 6:35:03 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Kazakhstan’s Defense Ministry has cancelled commemorative events, including a military parade, on May 9 to mark the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Political and economic factors appear to have played a role in the decision.
Victory Day, as the May 9 celebration is known across the former Soviet Union, has become Russia’s primary state holiday in the years since 1991. Elsewhere in the former Soviet empire, the occasion has receded in significance. In Kazakhstan, a military parade hasn’t been on May 9 since 2019. Even so, commemorative events honoring veterans have continued to be staged across the country.
Defense Ministry officials call it a cost-savings decision. The funds used to commemorate May 9 will instead go to “solve other problems,” including “maintaining the required level of combat readiness and mobility of units of the Armed Forces of Kazakhstan,” Kazakh media reported. The Defense Ministry added that the cost of previous May 9 ceremonies reached 4 billion tenge, or about $9 million.
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Time for you to start polishing your hammer and sickle pin! Only a month until your Red Square “Victory” parade!
F-16s not stronk as bull! Lol!
You know they are students and not soldiers but you have been spamming FR with the image leading people to believe and respond as though they are soldiers heading to the front.
What is your source that they are from Akademiia Gymnasium ninth grade class and not students of the Ivan Bohun Military High School?
I think we can safely ignore this particular member of Fulda Gap dreamers on FR. The Seventies called - they want your Cold War fantasies back.
Wow, that response to post 5 says it all about your credibility, you don’t know or care, you simply enjoy the trolling.
Great Success!
Stop watchink XiNN, Denny Davydov and PMSNBC as your primary news sources.
your identification of the particular school is oddly specific, and smells of Western Talking Points.
More of your strange, made up stuff.
My act of mocking the Clown Troll is NOT trolling.
Amazing.
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