The Parade 2009

Since the World War 2 was over there has been a tradition in Russia to conduct Russian Army Parades on the Red Square in Moscow. They have selected the best of the best soldiers from all the country to participate, the best armaments to show and it was rehearsed many times starting month or two before.

Then in 1990s, when economic situation was not too good in Russia, there was a number 50th parade at the Red Square, in 1995. After that parade there was officially announced that now, after 50 years has passed since the end of the war, this day would not be celebrated in such the grand manner. That meant no more mighty parades in future, no technics, just some soldiers marching.

Well, I can’t remember, why they changed their mind later, as far as I remember first year they kept the word and the parade was really minimalistic. But now the parades are triumphal again, here are some shots from the rehearsal of the upcoming event.

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Red Square in Detail

Probably everyone has seen Red Square and the Kremlin, probably they are the main symbol of Russia if to say in representation terms or associations.
Not everyone has seen those in big detail.
The star above is one of the Red Stars that are on top of the Kremlin towers. Each Red Star of the Kremlin weighs more than a ton but can rotate as weathercock wherever the wind blows. They are made from special “Ruby Glass” and have two layers of the glass making the stars looking red in any weather. The power consumption of each star is around 5 kWt. They have been damaged during the World War 2 and were refurbished later.
Below there are some more close-ups of the Red Square ensemble.
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Some Videos 10

We just yesterday remembered the Lenin’s tomb - the “mausoleum” and now here is the video of some pranksters dressed as mummies and visiting their brother holy Mummy. It seems that Russian police was against that.

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Flag is Wrong

Could there be more fail than this?
They had some Miss Something 2009 right at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, next to the Kremlin and stuff, and then you know “And the winner is….” - so came the girl that won, and they gave her a flag… And just later they got understood how bad it was - the flag was not Russian one - like there the same colors but up-side-down - and in tri-color flags the order of the colors is of much importance. There is a video below too.

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The Red Square Soccer

Now everyone can play soccer (European football) on the Red Square. Now people stand in long lines to do this.

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The Parade Rehearsal

This year they decided to held a big Russian Army parade in Moscow, Russia. Such parades were normal in Soviet Union but were not conducted since the early 90-s of the last century in Russia, after the Soviet Union collapse.
This time we have photos and a pretty long video showing all the stuff they gonna have at this parade at the 9th of May, the day that is celebrated in Russia as “The Victory Day” and they mean the victory in the World War 2. You are first who sees it, thousands of Russian would get the broadcast of the even not earlier than at that day.

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Lenin As He Is Today

Many of our readers know that in the middle of Moscow, right on the Red Square, next to the Kremlin there is a Lenin’s tomb, called “mausoleum”.

There, inside, mummy of Lenin lies. Really, not only Egyptians made mummies but Soviet authorities decided to make a mummy of Lenin as a symbol of Soviet Era and October Revolution.

This Lenin’s tomb was a real shrine for all the Russian people who came all over the vast Russia to visit the Red Square and mausoleum. There were alway long lines on entrance, people had to wait a few hours as minimum in order to enter and take a fast glance of Lenin, or the piece of what 70 years ago was called Lenin.

Nowadays many people demand to remove the body or the mummy from the middle of the Red Square and bury it, but still there are many people brought up in communist style who are against this so powers afraid on making some sheer action on the tomb.

And because its all made of flesh and bones, at least it was made of it, it needs some cleaning and service a few times a year. Here we have some screenshots from Russian TV channel where the operation of regular service on Lenin’s mummy was shown.

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