Posted on 05/09/2009 9:29:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russia shows military power in Soviet-style parade
by Stuart Williams Fri May 8, 10:51 pm ET
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia was Saturday to show off its military might at a Red Square parade to mark its victory in World War II, in the latest revival of a Soviet-era tradition amid renewed tensions with NATO.
Ten thousand soldiers and 100 key items of military hardware were to be on display at the parade, which features heavy weaponry in a revival of large-scale show of power ordered by former president Vladimir Putin last year.
"Our armed forces... must be capable of reliably protecting the sovereignty of Russia and the peaceful life of our people, repelling any aggression against our citizens," President Dmitry Medvedev said in the Kremlin on Friday.
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Many of these personnel are land lubbing paper pushers. You don’t need them. A lesson the US learned during Vietnam, and the Russians and Chinese are learning now.
Better to save the money and build more weapons.
Given the horid state of mfg of “spanky new toys” *folks sending back their FLankers as ‘junk’ the Russians need something.
EXACTLY! That is why we might have a window of opportunity right now that hasn’t come our way since the time of Reagan.
I think you got that mixed up Lenin led the Bolsheviks also called the red army.
We were on the side of the ‘white army’
We were on the side of the White RUSSIANS fighting the communist Bolsheviks led by Lenin who was smuggled into Russia to destroy it by the GERMAN EMPIRE!
yeap the Germans have sure screwed up the world over the years.
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