Posted May 11, 2018 9:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

You can see a little bit of everything in the latest Russian military parade from Moscow — even Steven Seagal.
Tsar Vlad has certainly kept the magic alive in Red Square as seen in the above 70~ minute long May Day Parade from yesterday shown on Soviet Russian state TV.
The opening is good, especially the inner workings of the Spasskaya Tower’s big clock. Then cue the Kremlin Regiment (in rebooted Tsarist uniforms marching with spotless SKS rifles complete with blonde wood stocks) and Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu propped on an immaculate Lada open-topped limo that looks like it came from Brezhnev’s motor pool.
You can skip Putin’s speech from about the 13- to 23-minute mark and pick up with the Gosudarstvenny Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii played by the assembled Army bands complete with artillery percussion by a saluting battery of 122mm guns and the march is on.
Various ground units file past from all branches of the Russki military and, in an increasing departure from the old Cold War days of drab uniforms and helmets, more are wearing traditional 19th century Imperial Army style uniforms complete with St. George ribbons and cockades that include old monarchist Romanov elements. Out with the Commies, in with

Source: Guns.com

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