Recent military parade shows the Russians never really throw anything away (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

You know the 100th anniversary this month of the “glorious Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army” would showcase a bunch of vintage Soviet hardware, still in remarkable condition. The Russian Ministry of Defense has been releasing a bunch of images a military parade in Severomorsk in honor of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Red Army.
Severomorsk is a small town in the frozen Kola Peninsula near the main base of the Red Banner Northern Fleet, and, according to Izvestia, the state-run news organ, those participating were active soldiers and sailors from the local base’s units marching on the orders of one Admiral Nikolai Evmenov and not a group of reenactors. Makes you wonder what is in storage elsewhere in the Motherland!

Tankers with TT holsters
Trotsky-capped 1920s Red Army troops with three-line (7.62x54R) Mosins and mounted bayonets along with a Red commissar. The Bolsheviks hit on the commissar idea to make sure that former Tsarist officers kept enough red in their pencil, at the point of a revolver if needed.
Female medics in heavy coats with Nagant M1895 revolvers in traditional pebble holsters. Their feet are clad in Valenki, felt boots which are ideal for use on snow, which we hear Russia

Source: Guns.com