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To: Samogon

The 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Div was the primary force of the Moscow Military District following WWII positioned and equipped to forestall military mutiny attacks, which role it fulfilled twice, first during the coup attempt against Gorbachev. Yeltsin rallied and turned the Taman, second time during the Parliament occupancy attempt. Always the best equipped and maintained, they received almost all the T-90 tanks in western Russia. Served in both Chechnya wars. If they’ve been moved from the MMD it ain’t for a parade.


46 posted on 03/26/2014 12:41:39 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

It will be no parade for sure. Every day passed Ukrainian army is better prepared and population is ready to take up arms against aggressors.
On the other hand, a potential bloodbath with millions of their own perished never stopped Russian orcs.


48 posted on 03/26/2014 12:53:22 PM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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