[TigerLikesRooster]

So they know now how Germans troops felt on Eastern front in WWII.

[nuconvert]

Lol.

[Silentgypsy]

Long time ago, I read a study from the Rockefeller Institute. They wet and chilled volunteers and the data indicated that the wet, chilly people caught no more colds, flu, etc. than the dry, warm control group. Gotta hit the books again.

[Red Badger]

Poo!
Pneumonia and flu are caused by bacteria and virus, not thin uniforms.................

[Lazamataz]

It does look thin.

[exDemMom]

The new uniforms are contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and viruses?

[KarlInOhio]

So much for the L'Empereur line. Toss out the Napoleonic retro look and return to a nice heavy Siberian overcoat.

[ClearCase_guy]

That whole “germ theory” thing is a capitalist trick! They aren’t gonna fall for that one!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Wow, they aren’t making Russians like they used to! Where have all the stone soup eaters gone?

[bunkerhill7]

Russia's too thin 'designer' uniform leads to pneumonia and flu:

Red Army to Switch to All-Weather Burkhas

[dfwgator]

They could have used Edna Mode.

[Pan_Yan]

The second half of the article is hillarious.

[Pan_Yan]

The second half of the article is hilarious.

[henkster]

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

[Buckeye McFrog]

good thing for them they were not so fashion conscious at Stalingrad

[calex59]

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.

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.

[ridesthemiles]

Old Russian saying:

They pretend to pay us.

We pretend to work.

[Mr. K]

They need red suspenders on bright green checkerboard slacks, paisley shirt and purple overcoat!

If you’re going to fight, CLASH!

[aruanan]

But he and his subordinates suggested that the conscripts had fallen ill only because their commanding officers had behaved irresponsibly and made them stand guard and work in sub-zero temperatures that no uniform could withstand for long periods.

The new uniforms had been tested and found fit for Russia's harsh winters, they added.

Concerns have previously been raised about the fact that many Russian officers and soldiers are too fat to comfortably fit into the new uniforms.

[Waverunner]

Perhaps a traditional fur uniform...

[fruser1]

This one looks nice though...