Red Square Victory parade: preparations

[Loki]

This is one thing that I want to witness in my lifetime. Must be awesome.

This year's preparations are being made already:

[Tabiti]

Perfection, discipline, order, strenght, veneration...just beauty! Things all military and political parades have to show, to help people feel being a gear-wheel of a great eternal machine. But during the years and years parading, the true meaning and events on the exact celebrate date begin to fade, and fade, and fade, until it becomes only "the parade date", until the next government rejects it and puts another "parade day"...

9th May is 9th May and everyone has right and must have personal opinion (positive/negative) for it and not to accept it only as "the big parade"!

[Beorn]

There are plenty of places in this world I would love to visit in my lifetime and Moscow is one of them.

My father and sister both speak Russian quite fluently and, my sister in particular, would always go on about the history and culture of Russia.

It would be a sacrilege for having to put up with those stories to never go and visit.

[Æmeric]

Isn't this the parade where they celebrate their victory over Germany & the rape of millions of German, Hungarian & other European women. Not to mentioned the mass murder of millions of German civilians in the east & the deportation of the survivors westward out of Silesia, East Prussia & Pomerania?

[Æmeric]

My father and sister both speak Russian quite fluently and, my sister in particular, would always go on about the history and culture of Russia.

Why do your father & sister speak Russian fluently?

[Manifest Destiny]

Isn't this the parade where they celebrate their victory over Germany & the rape of millions of German, Hungarian & other European women. Not to mentioned the mass murder of millions of German civilians in the east & the deportation of the survivors westward out of Silesia, East Prussia & Pomerania?

I'm sure someone might consider such facts to be "irrelevant".

[Beorn]

Why do your father & sister speak Russian fluently?

My father was taught Russian and German as a child, and can speak both fluently enough to get by in the two countries. As for why he was taught them would be down to the curriculum of Bristol schools after the war, I suppose.
As for my sister, she simply fell in love with the Russian nation and people. She taught herself Russian and has been once, I believe.

I did try and teach myself Russian, as well as German, but both languages bored me to death that much that I gave up wanting to learn them.

[Thorum]

There are plenty of places in this world I would love to visit in my lifetime and Moscow is one of them.

My father and sister both speak Russian quite fluently and, my sister in particular, would always go on about the history and culture of Russia.

It would be a sacrilege for having to put up with those stories to never go and visit.

I have been to Moscow, Wat, and you would love it!! It is truly a bustling and growing city. So much history...Lots and lots to do, boat tours, University, Circus, Dolphinarium, Museums, Red Square, Cafes, book shops, I could go on... up

[Thorum]

Isn't this the parade where they celebrate their victory over Germany & the rape of millions of German, Hungarian & other European women. Not to mentioned the mass murder of millions of German civilians in the east & the deportation of the survivors westward out of Silesia, East Prussia & Pomerania?

I can answer that question: No.

[Æmeric]

My father was taught Russian and German as a child, and can speak both fluently enough to get by in the two countries. As for why he was taught them would be down to the curriculum of Bristol schools after the war, I suppose.

Sounds as though the schools in Bristol were ran by a bunch of lefty marxists who were preparing for the day the Russians conquered England & created an English Socialist Republic modeled on the DDR.