On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country’s victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country’s national identity.
Russia only had one tank on display during its Victory Day parade this year.
Every year, Moscow wraps itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, a celebration of its victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
Today marks the 79th anniversary and Mr Putin addressed the parade in the Red Square, talking up his country’s military capabilities in a speech aimed as much at a foreign audience as a domestic one.
Vladimir Putin used his Victory Day speech this year to try and warn Russia’s combat forces were “always ready” but admitted the country was going through a “difficult period”.
They did the same thing in 2023, one tank, a WWII T-34 last year.
‘The Second World War T34 tank was the only one present - as it was last year too.’
I thought this story sounded familiar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Moscow_Victory_Day_Parade
Isn’t that one of the T-34 tanks Russia had to buy back from the country of Laos some years ago?
Correct, and it wasn’t even made in the Soviet Union:
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/russia-receives-30-vintage-t-3485-tanks-from-laos
I also thought the one, lonely tank seemed familiar (had to check the article date to make sure it was new). Thanks for posting that so I didn’t have to dig up last year’s.
ok I did look at your wikipedia page and went to some links for it trying to find this but im sorta curious what was the typical number of tanks before? I know you are unlikely to just know this but worth a try.
Again, Wikipedia , but in 2020 they had ‘around 250 plus vehicles… and 80-strong (aircraft) flypast.’
The ‘250 plus’ seems to be armored vehicles, they counted ICBM and intermediate missle launchers separately.
2023 and 2024, no planes either
thanks. I appreciate that. Wow. What a difference.
That’s what tends to happen when you send a parade army into a war it was never meant to fight.
Last year there were a couple of T-34s standing on the sidelines, though they may not have been in working order.
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I’d love to earn a ban from the worthless tankies.
It’s not hard! Just say pretty much anything that’s not deep-throating dictators…
Hell just say NATO is a defensive alliance and they go off the rails. I’ve picked up a few long bans for that alone.
NATO is a defence alliance, the world bank was made to rebuild Europe, the IMF was designed to keep currencies of members stable, and the EU was made to keep France and Germany (and later Italy) from killing each other again in 20 years (believe it or not it’s hard to go to war with your trading partner). Taken together they are the core institutions responsible for the relative safety of the entire western hemisphere in the wake of WW2.
Too true. I told a guy to stop throating putin’s removed and earned a ban.
Just exist for a while, if you’re a reasonable person in a comment thread, chances are you’ll get preemptively banned anyway!
Maybe don’t invade your neighbors then, you miserable cunt.
Would have been sweet if a drone flew in and blew that one up too.
…and putin commenting “yeah, really difficult period indeed”.
Imagine inheriting the corpse of the Soviet Union and having less tanks than literally anyone, much less a nation you’ve invaded out of your weird Tsarist-era port obsession.
Russia only had
oneits only remaining functional tank on display during its Victory Day parade this year.they’ve been going through a difficult period since 26 March 2000, vladimir.
They’ve been going through a different period since the year of our Lord 862.
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Yes, but is best tank in all of Russia.
That’s one tank too many.
I have a suggestion for next year’s parade:
You think they can spare 4 soldiers from the Front?
yeah that conversion to dictatorship is long, hard fight, but apparently worth it. youre almost there, putin!
I also only have one tank so I empathize.
Putin admitting that to times are hard is actually really dangerous. If you don’t acknowledgel there’s a problem, there’s no problem to solve. Purin just acknowledged a problem…
But anyway… This is yet another sign of the Russian economy booming! Russia is busy figuring out what they’re going to do with all the money, so they didn’t have time to build any tanks!
Again?
in a clown suit, next year, putin will be the only attraction and russians will joyfully throw him tomatoes and banana peels : it will be the best military parade ever.
