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US Servicemen To Take Part in Russia's Largest Victory Parade Ever
English.Pravda.ru ^ | March 3, 2010

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: belarus; cccp; coldwar2; communism; demicrazies; fsb; kgb; kgbputin; putin; redarmy; russia; sovietunion; ukraine; usefulidiots; ussr; victoryday2010
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
I didn't mention that the purges were also a large part of the reason why two and a half million Soviet troops, if I remember the figure correctly, couldn't walk over Finland with a wartime total population of only three and a half million.

Today, BTW, is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Winter War.

61 posted on 03/13/2010 6:07:02 AM PST by magslinger (Cry MALAISE! and let slip the dogs of incompetence.)
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To: Thunder90
Obama and other world leaders have also been invited.

Fixed it for you :)

62 posted on 03/13/2010 6:10:05 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: Thunder90

Add me to your list. I was drafted by JFK in 1961 when the commies built that wall around E. Berlin.


63 posted on 03/13/2010 8:01:35 AM PST by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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To: Owl_Eagle
It IS in their interests to create areas of destabilization and buffer zones of those unfriendly towards the West.

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.

64 posted on 03/13/2010 12:21:11 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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To: My hearts in London - Everett
......sarcastic, whiny reply.

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.

65 posted on 03/13/2010 5:21:20 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (Obama? Definitely eligible to be Prime Minister of the UK.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

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. ;~)


66 posted on 03/13/2010 5:45:27 PM PST by My hearts in London - Everett (So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.)
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To: ETL; flash2368; Owl_Eagle
I've read the replies on both your threads ETL. I have to go along with those who support our participation in celebrating the 65th anniversary of VE Day. What a monumental event VE Day was for those of us who lived through those war years and what a horrible price we paid!! If it were up to me, I'd airlift to Moscow, The Old Guard, 1/3 Battalion, along with a hundred surviving GIs from the Battle for Berlin. Our State Dept. would host a banquet for the old vets from all countries present and provide interpreters for the exchange of war stories. The Old Guard would march in the parade in their dress blues with chrome bayonets fixed on their rifles. What a terrific photo-op having our troops marching armed through the Kremlin - far more desirable than having Russian troops marching armed through DC, no?
67 posted on 03/13/2010 7:50:38 PM PST by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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To: shove_it

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.


68 posted on 03/13/2010 9:27:51 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Thunder90

Thank you for the ping.


69 posted on 03/14/2010 6:47:00 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
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