[faithhopecharity]

Naturally a certain high-office-occupant (islamo-)Nazi isn’t there to commemorate our victory over the Nazis. Figures.

[tcrlaf]

Steven Segal was sitting in the “Invited VIPS” Audience section, in Red Square

[KC_Lion]

Was it like last years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4x_OmqGs40&feature=youtu.be&t=12m5s

[blueunicorn6]

Did they get that new tank to run so it could be in the parade?

“We have a turban engine like the Americans.”

“No.....turbine engine......turbine......that’s what the Americans have.”

“Damnit! I should have known a head wrap wouldn’t work.”

[nathanbedford]

In the wake of the fall of Berlin 70 years ago the victorious allies were contemplating bringing the remnants of the Nazi regime to account in the Nuremberg trials. One of the charges leveled against them was the waging of war. But no such charges were leveled against the Soviet Union who were complicit with Hitler by virtue of the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact with its secret codicils for the division of Eastern Europe.

Of course at the time of the fall of Berlin the Soviet armies were the overwhelming dominant military force in Europe but that equation entirely reversed only a few months later with the detonation of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now the balance of power (assuming the production of a few more bombs by the United States) was entirely in favor of the United States who were in exclusive possession of that weapon until the Soviets exploded their version in 1949. During this window no attempt was made to bring the Soviets to account for their war crimes, indeed, no intent was made to free the slaves and satellite states of Eastern Europe who came under Soviet occupation.

At the time of the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, no attempt was made to bring the communist regime in German Democratic Republic to the bar of justice for their crimes. At the time of the fall of the Soviet Union no such effort was made.

There is undeniably a double standard when it comes to the crimes of the left as opposed to the crimes of the right.

The victory of the Soviets of The Great Patriotic War was not a victory of a lesser evil over a greater evil but of one kind of evil over an another kind of evil.

[jmacusa]

WW2 was a shotgun marriage of convenience between the USSR and the West. Nothing more. Never forget that Old Joe Stalin was quite content to go strolling down the garden path with Old Adolph, happily invading Poland three weeks after the Krauts did most of the heavy lifting and snapping up the Baltic States. And he sat fat and sassy in the Kremlin every night during the fall and winter of 1940/41 while the Luftwaffe pounded London and other British cities. From 1945 and today Russia has been our enemy and Old Vlad has been making trouble and seems bent on making a lot more. Screw the Russkies.

[IluvmyKalashnikov]

I wonder if the ruskies ever fixed their busted tank. Nothing like a shiny new multimillion dollar piece of equipment crapping out just driving down the street. Imagine the disaster if it actually gets hit.