one tank parade
Posted on 05/09/2023 9:28:16 PM PDT by Cronos
It would be hard to image a more fitting symbol of Russia’s declining military fortunes than the sight of a solitary Stalin-era tank trundling across Red Square during the country’s traditional Victory Day celebrations on May 9. For the past two decades, Vladimir Putin has used Victory Day to showcase modern Russia’s resurgence as a military superpower, with dozens of the very latest tanks typically taking part in each annual parade. This year, however, the only tank on display was a T-34 model dating back to World War II.
Inevitably, the embarrassing absence of tanks at this year’s Victory Day parade has been widely interpreted as further evidence of Russia’s catastrophic losses in Ukraine. Social media was soon buzzing with posts poking fun at the Kremlin. “Modern Russian military equipment can be found much more easily at Ukrainian military trophy exhibitions than at the Victory Parade in Moscow,” noted the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s official Twitter account. Others were less subtle. “There was one tank at the parade in Moscow! We laugh all over Ukraine,” posted Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko. “There are farmers in Ukraine with more tanks than that,” quipped another Twitter user.
Tuesday’s one-tank parade was the latest in a series of blows that had already cast a shadow over preparations for this year’s Victory Day celebrations. In the month preceding the holiday, more than twenty cities across Russia canceled plans to hold military parades. While security concerns were officially cited, these cancellations fueled speculation that Russia simply doesn’t have enough military equipment available to stage regional parades, with the vast majority of tanks and other vehicles having already been sent to Ukraine.
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one tank parade
Already posted
I would point out over the decades this is not the first time they’ve only used one tank etc
The theatrics of a parade are hardly evidence one way or the other of how well they are doing in Ukraine.
Another propaganda article. It is all we get from either one side or the other it seems anymore.
Both Ukraine and Russia’s crushing defeats have been “weeks” or “days” away now for 14 months.
Retarded. Anyone with the slightest sense of decorum would know you don’t throw the normal festive event in the middle of people and soldiers sacrificing. You do a somber event, don’t waste your assets for parades, and instead… roll out a single T-34 to remind people that it’s a critical, hard and existential fight.
It has the added benefit of reducing the needed logistical and security effort, and not providing a fat target for Uke terrorists.
Well played.
You and your good friend jmacusa sure jump in fast to throw ice water on Ukraine and support the invaders from the north. Why would you keep up with Moscow parade tank numbers over the years? That is a queer bit of knowledge to have unless you are really “in” with the neo-Bolsheviks.
Imagine, knowingly or unknowingly, spreading propaganda from Kissinger’s Atlantic Council.
Yeah. Like this guy.
Putin brutally mocked over lone vintage tank in Russia’s scaled-down Victory Day parade
05/09/2023 2:35:18 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 44 replies
NY Post ^ | 5/9/2023 | Snejana Farberov
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4151970/posts
Panicky Putin rushes through speech at flop Victory Day parade with ONE rusty WW2 tank after Kremlin ‘assassination bid’
05/09/2023 5:17:46 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 24 replies
Sun UK ^ | 5/9/2023 | Tariq Tahir and Jerome Starkey
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4151802/posts
Occam’s razor.
it was a critical, hard and existential fight defeating the Nazis back the 1940's. That is the event that Victory Day in Russia is commemorating.
(Note that I despise "verbing" ("smokescreens"), but utilize it here for accurate simulation of what the pansies do).
Gee…
I hope Putin dies of a very infected rectum, and the Russkies get out of Ukrain. Then I hope the people of Russia rise up against the oligarchs and pave Red Square with their bodies. Then I hope all the Putinistas that the FSB has paid are all revealed after the executions.
There were plenty of ICBMs in the parade. Why focus on the tank?
“There are farmers in Ukraine with more tanks than that”
LOL
WOW! Triggerred much?
Actually, that may be PRECISELY the message intended.
Just saying.
All of you who keep salivating over the “brilliance” of these murderous thug bastards, make me want to vomit.
Wth is wrong with you idiots, do you have an ounce of common sense?
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