| USA, UK, France and EU snub Russian victory day. 11:59 - May 9 with 3671 views | felixstowe_jack |
The USA, UK and France have snubbed the Russian victory day parade which celebrates the Allies victory of Hitler's Germany.
Rather ironic as Russian is at war with Ukraine, which as part of USSR, had the highest percentage of war time casualties and made up 20% of the red army at the time.
In another snub the EU President was visiting Kyiv today in support of Ukraine.
The Moscow parade was a much scaled down version with 25% less soldiers, less military hardware, no modern tanks on display and no air flypast. It was also an hour shorter than usual
The Russian people were banned from attending for the first time ever. Russian cited security issues and possible anti war protests as the reason for this.
Most victory parades in other Russian cities were either cancelled or much curtailed with Russian again citing security issues, possible anti war demonstrations and a lack of military hardware and personnel. |  |
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| USA, UK, France and EU snub Russian victory day. on 09:08 - May 17 with 363 views | controversial_jack |
| USA, UK, France and EU snub Russian victory day. on 00:32 - May 17 by DJack |
And did that "Red Army" include a very sizable Ukrainian element. |
Yes there was. There were Siberians, Belorussians, etc. The Red army was very diverse | | | |
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