US Servicemen To Take Part in Russia's Largest Victory Parade Ever

English.Pravda.ru ^ | March 3, 2010

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US servicemen will participate in the Victory Day Parade on Red Square in Moscow on May 9, Alexander Vershbow, assistant defense secretary for international security affairs said. The Americans will celebrate the 65th anniversary of Victory in WWII, the official said.

Vladimir Kozhin, an official spokesman for the administration of the Russian president, confirmed that Moscow had invited France, Britain and the United States for the parade. The French were the first to agree. They now decide soldiers of which troops will march in the heart of Moscow on May 9.

If all is arranged as planned, it will be the first time when foreign military men will step on Red Square pavestones as participants of the parade. Russia invited only military attaches of foreign embassies for victory parades before.

“The parade in 2010 is a special one. It will be the largest parade that has ever been held in Moscow during the post-Soviet years. We plan to use 130 planes and helicopters, as well as military hardware from private collections in the parade,” a spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry said.

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Sorry, had little choice but to go to Pravda for this story. Two earlier postings on this were pulled, the first for not providing a source, the other because it was from Bloomberg.

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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=

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From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Frank Marshall Davis

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

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The Americans will celebrate the 65th anniversary of Victory in WWII, the official said.

Darn, I thought they'd turned Chechnya into a glass parking lot.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Say what you want but they WERE our allies during WWII.

My dad was with Patton’s third armn and met many of the Russian soldiers in Europe. He also almost started Patton’s desired war with the Russians when he insulted a Russian officer by offering a pack of cigarettes to the officer in trade for the officer’s sidearm.

The officer then tried to force my dad to salute him but my dad refused. One of the other soldiers there told my dad to “shoot that sonofabitch” but my dad didn’t.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

The should have some Merchant Marine vets from the Murmansk run in that parade.

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Russian nuclear bombers in Cuba?
July 23, 2008

The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.

The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world’s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US “red line”.

The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military. He told the Russian daily:

“While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.”

The quote hasn’t been independently confirmed, but the Russian Defense Ministry added fuel to the fire when they refused to comment on the story.

The prospect of Russian nuclear forces being stationed in Cuba - which is, after all, only 90 miles from the US coast - would bring back some rather unpleasant memories for the US of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev launched an audacious and foolhardy bid to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.

http://www.siberianlight.net/2008/07/23/russian-nuclear-bombers-cuba/
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Russia to help Cuba modernize weaponry, train military
September 18, 2009

HAVANA, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Modernization of the Soviet-made military equipment and training of Cuban military personnel will be the focus of Russian-Cuban military cooperation in the near future, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Friday. Gen. Nikolai Makarov arrived on a working visit to Cuba on Monday, met with Cuban President Raul Castro and the country's military leadership, and visited a number of military installations.

"During the Soviet era we delivered a large number of military equipment to Cuba, and after all these years most of this weaponry has become obsolete and needs repairs," Makarov said.

"We inspected the condition of this equipment, and outlined the measures to be taken to maintain the defense capability of this country...I think a lot of work needs to be done in this respect, and I hope we will be able to accomplish this task," the general said.

Makarov said the Cuban request for assistance with training of military personnel will also be fully satisfied.

Although the Cuban leadership has repeatedly said it has no intention of resuming military cooperation with Russia after the surprise closure of the Russian electronic listening post in Lourdes in 2001, bilateral military ties seem to have been improving following the visit of Russian Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to Cuba in July last year.

A group of Russian warships, led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer visited Cuba in December last year during a Caribbean tour.

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20090918/156170428.html

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Venezuela Set to Develop Nuclear Power With Russia
September 29, 2008
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Russia will help Venezuela develop nuclear energy — a move likely to raise U.S. concerns over increasingly close cooperation between Caracas and Moscow.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,429441,00.html
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Venezuela's Chavez welcomes Russian warships
Nov 25, 2008
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela – Russian warships arrived off Venezuela's coast Tuesday in a show of strength aimed at the United States as Moscow seeks to expand its influence in Latin America. The deployment is the first of its kind in the Caribbean since the Cold War and was timed to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22Venezuela%27s+Chavez+welcomes+Russian+warships%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

More Yahoo search results for Russia and Venezuela connections:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu_X30pZJCJEAfCtXNyoA?p=Russia+Venezuela+bombers+tanks+arms&y=Search&fr=404_news
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From National Public Radio (NPR):
August 29, 2006
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been visiting countries such as China, Iran and Russia as part of an effort to build a 'strategic alliance' of interests not beholden to the United States. He considers the United States his arch enemy.":
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5729764

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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html

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PING.

[Squawk 8888]

Good idea, if any are still around. My uncle did escort duty with the Royal Canadian Navy on the Murmansk run and came back with tuberculosis.

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark.

[flash2368]

Everyone keeps screaming about the communists but if you go to Moscow now, you will not see anything that looks like Soviet Union communism.

It may well be basically a dictatorship but what I see when I am in Russia is capitalism, & entrepreneurship. The advertising makes Madison Avenue look sick. I do not see the sour depressed faces I saw on my first trip 9 years ago, and you best have a reservation or you will not get into any restaurant other than a fast food place on the weekends. Wish I could say that for Florida.

I would suggest that everyone with an ax to grind about Russia should instead direct that energy toward stopping the encroachment of islam because if things keep going like they are now...in 20 or so years the only safe place in the world for a Christian (or any non-islamic) could very well be Russia. The muzzies get to be a problem in Moscow and mayor Lushkov will do like he did the gypsies, put them on buses and ship them out.

Let the troops march and have a few beers together.

[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

To be added to or removed from this list, please FReepmail me...

[Thunder90]

Ukraine and Belarus are sending large contigents to march, so is Kazakhstan. I think that even the Chinese will send a contengent.

Obama and other world leaders have also been invited.

[Thunder90]

Really?

Russia is assiting Iran and Syria to the hilt. The only Muzzies who have a beef with Russia are the AQ types, and Chechens.

[Pavegunner72]

WOLVERINES!!!

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One would have to be a complete fool to believe everything Russia says in terms of terrorism there.

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I would suggest that everyone with an ax to grind about Russia should instead direct that energy toward stopping the encroachment of islam because if things keep going like they are now...in 20 or so years the only safe place in the world for a Christian (or any non-islamic) could very well be Russia. The muzzies get to be a problem in Moscow and mayor Lushkov will do like he did the gypsies, put them on buses and ship them out.

I'm not a huge fan of the Russians, but you're right on.

It's one of the few countries capable of the outright brutality it will take to scour the muzzies from the earth if it comes down to it.