PDA

View Full Version : Moscow Victory parade 2010


trevpr1
13 Jun 10, 16:58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-6ymFxzLiM&feature=related

I knew this went on, but I hadn't seen footage. Western international contingents march past from 6:31
Martin Mayers
13 Jun 10, 17:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-6ymFxzLiM&feature=related

I knew this went on, but I hadn't seen footage. Western international contingents march past from 6:31

Ditto....I had no idea either....amazing footage though
trevpr1
13 Jun 10, 18:22
I'm particularly impressed with the way they had some guys march past in authentic WWII dress.
MarkDV
13 Jun 10, 19:09
I'm particularly impressed with the way they had some guys march past in authentic WWII dress.

Figures you'd look at the men wearing dresses...

OK, serious note, I like the irony of ending on Beethovens ODE TO JOY. Just another way to make Hitler turn in his grave ie German music being played at the Allied celebration 65 years later of Hitlers TOTAL and COMPLETE destruction.....

Good link.

Mark DV
Ada, MI
Ray Woloszyn
14 Jun 10, 19:28
Trev, you're 31 days too late. I posted this on May 12 from a different source! No harm, I liked it the first time.
trevpr1
14 Jun 10, 23:50
Trev, you're 31 days too late. I posted this on May 12 from a different source! No harm, I liked it the first time.


Ooops. Sorry Ray, I didn't see it.


It is here and makes the clip I posted look pathetic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPAdmlZCHI
Vinnie
15 Jun 10, 02:31
Figures you'd look at the men wearing dresses...

OK, serious note, I like the irony of ending on Beethovens ODE TO JOY. Just another way to make Hitler turn in his grave ie German music being played at the Allied celebration 65 years later of Hitlers TOTAL and COMPLETE destruction.....

Good link.

Mark DV
Ada, MI

The use of Beethoven is hardly new. They were broadcasting his 5th symphony's opening bars in 1944 as the V for victory in morse dot dot dot dash.
trevpr1
15 Jun 10, 04:12
The other thing is that Beethoven was as a matter of record a scathing critic of Tyrants. He intended one of his great works to be dedicated to Napoleon but, on hearing* what the man was actually about, withdrew the accolade. He'd have had no more time for Hitler, Mussolini or Bush.


*what?
Martin Mayers
15 Jun 10, 04:57
Re-enjoyed it all over again.

Add to list of things to do before I die.....'visit Moscow on Victory Day Parade'
Roadtogundagai
15 Jun 10, 21:42
The other thing is that Beethoven was as a matter of record a scathing critic of Tyrants. He intended one of his great works to be dedicated to Napoleon but, on hearing* what the man was actually about, withdrew the accolade. He'd have had no more time for Hitler, Mussolini or Bush.


*what?

Wasn't Bush voted into office - twice?
Derf
15 Jun 10, 22:23
Thanks Trev for the memories. I as in Red Square in April 1986. Would be cool to go back and see the changes that have taken place.
trevpr1
16 Jun 10, 02:28
Wasn't Bush voted into office - twice?


No - just once.
Roadtogundagai
16 Jun 10, 03:32
No - just once.

Beware the hanging chads...

http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/large/7_03a_lrg.jpg