USS Blue Ridge arrives for Victory Day celebrations

Brahmand.com ^ | 5/7/2010 | Brahmand.com

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The US Navy's Seventh Fleet command ship USS Blue Ridge arrive in Vladivostok on Friday to take part in festivities dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Allied victory in the World War II.

Seventh Fleet Commander, Vice Adm. John M. Bird who also arrived in Vladivostok will attend the Victory Day celebrations.

RIA Novosti quoting a spokesman for the US Consulate-General in Russia's Far East said, the Blue Ridge crew would take part in a military parade in downtown Vladivostok to symbolize the allied relations between the United States and Russia during the Second World War.

The cultural agenda of the visit includes a "culinary duel" between the US and Russian sailors, a number of sport events, and visits to local schools and children's hospitals.

The world famous Seventh Fleet Band will perform several concerts at various events and on the streets of Vladivostok.

Blue Ridge provides the capability for seagoing command and control of theater level forces by naval and joint commanders during peacetime or conflict, and provides naval support for U.S. diplomatic initiatives and objectives, according to the report.

[Trueblackman]

Hmmmm, they actually moved Building 19 for something.

[Screaming_Gerbil]

[Doofer]

Hmmmm, they actually moved Building 19 for something.

Don't you mean the Love Boat?

[microgood]

I got to do a shipcheck on the Mount Whitney (LCC 20) while in port at Nassau, Bahamas. Fun times.

[RoadTest]

“the Blue Ridge crew would take part in a military parade in downtown Vladivostok to symbolize the allied relations between the United States and Russia during the Second World War.”

It symbolizes a lot more than that:

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[RoadTest]

Try this link:

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[Houghton M.]

Why is all this celebrating taking place in Russia? Why no celebration here? Obama wishes we had lost the war?

[Cheburashka]

Why is all this celebrating taking place in Russia? Why no celebration here? Obama wishes we had lost the war?

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Because this is the Russian Holiday that is celebrated and revered most. The Russians don't have an equivalent to the Forth of July. The Russians ceased celebrating May Day and November 7(The October Revolution) when the Soviet Union fell apart. They celebrated Unity Day (November 4) under the Romanovs and resumed celebrating it under the Russian Federation, but most Russians have a poor understanding of what the significance is. (Just so you, know, it commemorates the Russian people driving Polish invaders out of Moscow back in the early 1600's.)

In sum, The Day of Victory is it for the Russians. Americans have never celebrated V-E with equivalent vigor.

[Tailgunner Joe]

A girl touches the poster with a portrait of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin
in a central street of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok, April 30, 2010.