Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall
Russian President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in downtown Moscow as part of the celebrations of Defender of the Fatherland Day on Thursday, February 23rd.
Congratulations to all who served in the Soviet Army and in the Russian Army.
We are the Army of our Country! We are the Army of our people!
The sacred words Moscow is behind us, we remember since the time of Borodino.
Soviet Storm!
Soviet Storm: World War II: temporada 1: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELlzBS5WrPu4s
Ura !
Neocons, and others – watch and tremble.
Militarism and pumping up armed forces is no prettier or civilised in Russia any more than the US or elsewhere. Armed forces are unfortunately a necessary evil, and I recognise that Russia is being threatened by the US through her NATO surrogate vassals. Nevertheless, this kind of super patriotism and glorifying the military is unedifying and actually serves to suggest that Russia is protesting too much. What I mean by that is that it makes it seem as if Russia is trying to put on a show of her military potential from a sense of fear and inferiority, and so to scare off her protagonists.
I have great admiration and respect for the long suffering Russian people and the great nation that is Russia. I consider Vladimir Putin to be the outstanding leader of his generation internationally, leaving his western counterparts to be seen as pathetic dilettantes, mouldering in corruption, decadence and degeneracy. But sometimes I think that the Saker, in his loyalty to and affection for Russia, over eggs the pudding. Russia under Putin has hugely rebuilt its military potential to date, however the kind of military displays as above as on many other occasions come across as propaganda on sites such as this. And that suggests weakness.
I have no doubt that today generation of Russia’s defenders will give their all in the defence of mother Russia, as their fathers, mothers, grandparents and so on, have done in the past. Just let us pray, for all of our sakes, that they don’t have to. Respect, from Ireland.
If Europeans form fools of themselves, the Russian tri-color will be unfurled over the Reichstag just like the old Hammer and Sickle was 70 years ago.
Just yesterday I came across an article relating how the Russians were making a mock-up version of the old Reichstag for “training” purposes, of course.
https://www.rt.com/news/378303-reichstag-russia-army-children/
It seems like no matter what you do, invariably, history always repeats itself….
Very skary stuff, eh? Makes one want to thank yahweh for [g]ato and the americans…
Gay.
Note the flag in the article header pic.
All the zionazi-nazi propaganda will never change that.
The picture is based on a famous photo published with other gorgeous color tinted period photos in
http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/3160049.html
Unfortunately the artist flipped the photo image so the layout of the flag is not true.
Like the Soviet Red Army before, the Russian Army now is the only bulwark left defending the world from the Capitalism’s global march for plunder and mayhem. Time to remember the fallen millions who generously gave everything for us to live.
Glory to the Soviet Army! Glory to the Russian Army!
Fair enough. Unfortunately even Putin also believes in Capitalism and denounced Communism early in the 90ties (videos on yt).
RF is a capitalist’s paradise itself. In the past it was a paradise for everybody, not just the new-riches.
@ Kirov
That may be so now, but Russian has experienced an alternative to Capitalism and may well revert to Communism eventually.
Capitalism is part of the Western strategy for world domination – that’s why NATO systematically destroys any country with a hint of a socialist programme for its people, including Russia, which still retains many social and economic policies from the communist period. And that’s why the NATO wardogs are up in arms about the Soviet – I mean the Russian threat. They know Russia may be capitalist now but they don’t trust it as its credentials are doubtful and will never be admitted to the “club”.
Putin is himself very ambivalent and he’s aware that the greatest Russians of all time (as per poll conducted in 2008) were Alexander Nevsky, Stolypin and Stalin, in that order. And Stalin was not Russian by birth! Most Russians are communist at heart but they are dismissive and distrustful of cliques, apparatchiks and other parasitic scum-rulers who govern for themselves.
We attended the ceremonies at 35th Battery Museum in Sevastopol yesterday.
Three generations of warriors were present and honored at the event, two from The Great Patriotic War, one from the Cold War, one young Starshi Lutanant who had just returned from Syria, three of our Berkut who fought in Kiev and assisted in manning our barricades during our Russian Spring of ’14 and several who are fighting for Novorossiya. My wife and I know all of them.
Baba Shura, who is wheelchair bound, was Partizan in Sevastopol for the entire war. The very old Polkovnik served from beginning to end in the Leningrad Front. Baba Shura is the basis for one of the major characters in my in process novel. She is sharp as a tack and lives alone in one of our outlying villages. Her grandson brought her to the event. He has served in Donetsk from the very beginning and is highly decorated. He is here on leave and returns to the Front shortly. The Cold War vet, first time we met was last summer. There was and is no animosity between us, as he once said “You did your job, I did my job. It wasn’t personal.” And it wasn’t.
Baba Shura’s story is poignant and indicative of Russia both then and now. Here is part of it, told to me in summer of 2015:
“My husband and I met two months before the Germans came to our city. I was in Army Nurse School and he was in Navy Academy, both of us with eighteen years. My dear friend S//////a was in school with me. When the Germans and their Romanians came we had not a full day’s notice from our commanders. My husband and his entire class were given two hours training with old rifles , given five rounds for each and sent to the line to defend Sevastopol. My entire class of student nurses was sent with them. We had nothing to help the wounded with besides what rags we could find. The boys had nothing besides their very old rifles, no grenades, no radios, no helmets, nothing but them and their teachers from the Academy.
By the end of the first day half of them were dead, but they stopped the Romanians who attacked them. By the end of the second day half of the remaining boys were dead and half of we student nurses were dead. By the end of the fourth day almost all of our comrades, his and ours, were dead. My husband had three school boys with him and only S//////a and I were alive from our Nurse School.
We went on our own to center of city and there we were taken in to a unit that was going in to the tunnels under City Center. That is where we fought the Germans and Romanians for the next four years. When the city was liberated my husband, one of his comrades from Academy, S//////a and I were the only ones alive from over 500 students sent to the front from our two schools.”
It is our honor to be present at the ceremonies, to speak to these veterans and thank them for their service to Russia and her citizens.
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President Putin opening words at a “Defenders Day” concert. As always he makes a good speech (English subs are available). But more important.I’d like you to see the strong ,confident,way he speaks.He totally shames all the Western leaders with his eloquence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fizSgZGvhk
Which of the next do you prefer the most?
a) win a war with huge casualties but lost the peace ?
b) win a war with minimal costs of lives and investments but lost the peace?
c) win without any war but lost the peace ?
d) lost a war but win the peace?
I’d prefer e) win without war “and” win the peace. Or if not that then f) win a win with minimal costs of lives and investments “and” win the peace.It appears your list lacked several obvious options.
The Phoenix rises, Alexandrov Ensemble at the Kremlin Palace, Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland, 2017.
Potpourri of songs of Army Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHqUA2o_Fo
Lots of young faces, the whole diversity of the Russian Lands, and many faces that show lives well lived.
Never fear, someone will always be ready to take up the challenge.
Long Live Alexandrov Ensemble!!! Urrah!!
Song of the Volga Boatmen, feat. Leonid Kharitonov, turn up the Bass!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNb54rwDQJM
Yes, a lot of young faces, empty shoulder boards and bare chests. Give them time and all will be good.
Слава Советской Красной Армии — ypa!
Wouldn’t it be great to watch the West’s criminals in charge being led right up to the gallows coming May 9th on Red Square? And then, on the centenary of the Russian revolution, continue with ‘the enemy within’ — Russia’s liberal traitors.
Голос Победы!