Posted on 05/08/2010 12:25:12 PM PDT by anymouse
The nighttime lights of Russia's capitol city Moscow glow like a giant luminescent spider web in a new photo taken by astronauts in space.
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Victory Day in Russia is May 9 – which also happens to be Mother's Day in the United States. It is a holiday that commemorates the end of World War II when Germany surrendered. American troops will take part in this year's Victory Day parade in Moscow for the first time in history, according to the New York Times.
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Another bow to foreign powers by the pretender in chief?
There have been threads on this for the past month.
The mainstream media has spiked the story.
There will be no pictures of US troops marching behind Stalin’s portraits. There will be no mention of the 61+ million murdered by the Soviets. There will be no pictures that do not flatter Russia.
I wonder, will the troops that are marching know if the Russians they are following are veterans of the Georgia invasion? The Afghan invasion? Will the medals on the old vets be from when they flew fighters and shot down US pilots in Vietnam and Korea?
Just curious.
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
That must the world-wide Web!
From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG
Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008
Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.
The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:
Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/
This illegitimate state of affairs continued until the events of 1989 when Poland finally shook off the Russian occupation. Which marks the true end of WW2.
I doubt the Polish Army will be marching with the Red Army in Moscow this May. Which country is more communist-influenced now, the USA or Poland?
This is nauseating. The only person who was equally a fan of the Soviets was Truman, who at that point was just following his master FDR and sent thousands of German POWs from Soviet territory back to the USSR, knowing perfectly well that they would be killed immediately.
These were people who had been captured fighting for the German army, and some of them were ethnic Germans from areas that had then become parts of Russia, while others were White Russians who saw joining the German army as the only way to attack the Soviets. We kept them in POW camps here for years, and then we sent them back to Russia, even though many people were pleading with us not to do that. And they were all killed.
"...at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the Communists suddenly transformed the 'Anti-Nazi League' into the "Hollywood Peace Forum," calling for American neutrality and using the slogan 'Let's Skip the Next War.'..."
--Ronald Radosh, from his book, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance With the Left
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4251
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
The whitest place on the planet is Moscow. And it isn't an accident.
Talk about being played for a sucker.
This otta be a fun thread. ;o) Thanks for posting anymouse.
Our cities are laid out willy nilly.
Boston is a nightmare - built up over old Indian footpaths.
During the Winter War, the Finns found that Russian regulars and draftees frequently committed suicide rather than be captured.
During the Big War, NKVD troops almost always fought to the finish. This was one of the reasons why.
I have one of those badges -- the big one hanging on the wall, with the red star. It's on my denim jacket, along with (on the other side) a Russian submarine captain's badge, identical to the one Sean Connery wore in Hunt for Red October. I picked them up at a gun show in the 1990's. I passed on a gorgeous blue Kursk medal, it didn't seem right to me to possess that, as it was a sympathy offering of the Russian government to the bereft families. I did, however, have a colorful enameled command badge from a Kresta-I-class DLGM, which I unfortunately lost in a movie house.
That all said, it would be a shambles for an American formation to participate in such a giant Redfest. I suspect hidden motives and treachery here.
They will be.
Komorowski prepares for Moscow trip - May 7, 2010 - Parliamentary speaker and acting head of state Bronislaw Komorowski opens a two day visit to Moscow tomorrow. He will represent Poland at Sunday’s parade to mark the 65th anniversary of Russia’s victory in World War Two.Komorowski told Polish Radio that he will have a face-to-face meeting with President Dmitri Medvedev and will thank the Russian people for their assistance in the wake of last month’s crash of the Polish presidential plane in Russia. He said that there is no ground to suggest that there have been any signs of negligence in the way Russia conducts the inquiry into the causes of the crash of the tragedy.
Referring to the controversies connected with the invitation of former president General Jaruzelski to the Moscow ceremony, the Speaker of Polish Parliament described it as ‘absolutely natural’. ‘It is also a natural thing that we shall be travelling on the same plane’, he added.
Komorowski invites Jaruzelski on board - April 30, 2010 - Acting president Bronislaw Komorowski, who is going to Moscow to participate in the celebrations marking the 65th anniversary of Victory Day, has invited Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to fly with him to the ceremony. General Jaruzelski - who introduced martial law to crush the Solidarity movement in 1981 - was invited back in April to Moscow for the 9 May parade to celebrate the victory over Nazi Germany, along side Polish war veterans by the late president Lech Kaczynski. In spite of political animosities between the then right-wing head of state and the former communist leader, the Chancellery of the President invited Gen. Jaruzelski on board of the presidential plane, explaining that Poland should have a dignified representation at the WW II ceremony.
Over 10,000 Russian soldiers, 140 aircrafts and helicopters will participate in the Moscow parade on the Red Square. The Allies - Great Britain, France, Poland, and the U.S. - will also take part in the ceremony. The Guards of Honour of the Polish Army are already rehearsing before the 9 May parade.
Poland was right up front as the first non-CIS country.
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