Posted on 03/12/2010 12:26:09 PM PST by ETL
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.
Today, BTW, is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Winter War.
Fixed it for you :)
Add me to your list. I was drafted by JFK in 1961 when the commies built that wall around E. Berlin.
No. This is an error. What they have done is not in their interest and has already backfired on them badly. Russia's stupid and evil invasion of Georgia has destabilized the entire Caucasus and advanced the cause of ethnic separatism all over Russia itself. Russia's problems in the North Caucasus have only increased since Russia's genocidal invasion of Christian Georgia. Russia will pay for unleashing their pet Chechen muslim red army jihadists against Georgia. They never learned from Beslan. Beslan was blowback from when Russia supported Shamil Basayev's jihad against Georgian in Abkhazia in the early nineties. Now there will be more Beslans.
You are accurate there, and I apologize. You may call upon me at any time for directions to any historical source or reference materials at my disposal.
Now that’s right neighborly of you, Kenny Bunk! More Mainiacs should be like you and me and we might not have left for Florida. ;~)
Sends a terrible message. Not only in light of the 10s of millions of people killed at the hands of the Soviet Union, but in terms of what Russia has been up to since (supporting and supplying damn near every enemy we’ve ever had). And with this 80s-era pro-Soviet communist radical as our president, a guy who’s bending over backwards to appease KGB Putin on many fronts, it’s downright sickening.
Thank you for the ping.
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