Posted on 12/16/2010 6:30:58 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Russia's too thin 'designer' uniform leads to pneumonia and flu
The Russian army's expensive new "designer" uniform has been criticised for being too thin after hundreds of young conscripts in Siberia kitted out in it fell ill with pneumonia and flu.
By Andrew Osborn, Moscow 6:00AM GMT 16 Dec 2010
Parents of the sick conscripts blamed the army's new uniform which was created, amid much fanfare, by the flamboyant Moscow fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin.
Mr Yudashkin, who is famous in Russia for dressing Kremlin wives, won a multi-million pound tender to give the Red Army's successor a fashion makeover in 2007 after soldiers complained that their old uniforms made them look like they were serving in a poor developing country's army.
But parents said that the uniforms, which were debuted at a grand Red Square military parade in 2008, had put fashion before practicality.
"On the street they (our boys) literally felt naked," a relative of one of the soldiers told the government daily newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
"They gave our lads army boots made from fake leather with cardboard inner soles, socks, and light clothing clearly not suitable for winter."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
And getting chilled decreases your bodies ability to resist them.
They're made from old reusable shopping bags
This is not uncommon for the Russians. Look at the career of Vladimir Sukhomlinov:
(born Aug. 4 [Aug. 16, New Style], 1848—died Feb. 2, 1926, Berlin, Ger.) Russian general and minister of war who was largely responsible for Russia’s premature and unprepared entry into World War I.
Sukhomlinov took part in the Russo-Turkish war as a cavalry commander (1877–78) and was head of the officers’ cavalry school in St. Petersburg from 1886 to 1897, being promoted to general in 1898. He was Russian war minister from 1909 to 1915, and it was under him that the Russian orders for mobilization were given at the outbreak of World War I. At the time of Austria’s ultimatum to Serbia, Sukhomlinov assured the government of the combat readiness of Russian troops. The partial mobilization soon revealed the demoralized and unequipped state of the nation’s armed forces. As the war progressed, Russian combat operations were increasingly hampered by shortages of arms, ammunition, and other war matériel, but Sukhomlinov continued to insist that the army was adequately supplied. In June 1915 the thoroughly discredited Sukhomlinov was dismissed and replaced by the able General A.A. Polivanov.
Despite Sukhomlinov’s close ties with the tsar, public sentiment ran high and charges of malfeasance, corruption, and treason were brought against him by the Duma. He was arrested in April 1916, freed in October at the tsar’s instigation, and rearrested after the Revolution by the provisional government. At his trial in the autumn of 1917, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labour. He was freed by an amnesty granted by the Bolsheviks and went to Finland and later to Germany, where he composed his memoirs, Erinnerungen, published in 1924.
http://www.history.com/topics/vladimir-aleksandrovich-sukhomlinov
good thing for them they were not so fashion conscious at Stalingrad
I have seen the study before but I don’t believe it. maybe it depends on how long a person stays wet and chilled. I know that several times I have been severely chilled, I have gotten sick. One notable time I was caught out in 20 below weather unprepared and I ended up with the flu within a couple of days.
Sounds like it is politics as usual the world over doesn't it? Award the contract to someone you know and to he** with the troops.
Old Russian saying:
They pretend to pay us.
We pretend to work.
They need red suspenders on bright green checkerboard slacks, paisley shirt and purple overcoat!
If you’re going to fight, CLASH!
Common sense also rules in this instance. If cold and wet doesn’t help bring on flu and pnem. then why is it there are more cases in the winter?
Undress Blues?
But it breathes like Egyptian cotton.
If cold and wet doesn’t help bring on flu and pnem. then why is it there are more cases in the winter?
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Because people are indoors, in contact with each other, in buildings and climate conditions which nurture these bugs on surfaces, in the ducting, and in the air. You can’t catch a cold running outside without a coat; in fact, bugs are less likely to be floating around surviving out in the cold.
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