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Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: JoAn
Submitted by Fox:
Photos… http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/parade-…br>
Russia’s military is under close scrutiny. Russia has threatened to use force against its neighbor and would-be NATO member Georgia if Tbilisi attacks its Moscow-backed breakaway regions.
Russia remains a formidable military power and its nuclear arsenal is capable of wiping out the United States.
Its defense budget for last year was 22 percent higher than in 2006. Russia last year announced an eight-year program to spend $189 billion on new military hardware.
Former President Vladimir Putin last year ordered the resumption of regular patrols by strategic bombers, held large-scale military exercises with China and sent the navy to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
“Stories still emerge … of Russian vessels deploying on exercise, looking very impressive from afar, but having the hatches painted shut on their missile tubes,” said Nick Brown, editor-in-chief of Jane’s International defense Review.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0728200120080507?sp=true
WHAT'S WRONG WITH VICTORY DAY PARADE IN MOSCOW?
Lev Ponomaryov, the leader of the For Human Rights group, described the Victory Day military parade on May 9 as “muscle flexing.”
“I think that military vehicles at the parade are unnecessary for the country that tries to show its peaceful course of development,” he said. “Military vehicles at the parade show that we are flexing muscles and posing threat to the rest of the world.”
His attitude was shared by Arseny Roginsky, the chairman of the International Memorial Society.
“This is a symbolic act aimed to demonstrate our ‘muscles' to the entire world and our citizens and prove that we are strong and extremely powerful. It is an artificial attempt to revive the Soviet myth that if they fear, they respect,” he said.
The human rights activist does not understand (or pretends not to understand) that a military parade does stimulate the development of the armed forces, while ignoring the army does not raise its prestige and does not help to solve any problems.
However, this logic and these questions are typical of those who were not so long ago called “demschiza” (democratic schizophrenics). Valeria Novodvorskaya gave an interview to Gazeta on the eve of Victory Day in 2007: “I never celebrate May 9 and I do not recommend anybody to do it…if forward-looking mankind wants to celebrate something, it does it meekly and without fuss. Such grandiose parades like in Russia are organized by losers who lost the rest and who need a myth that they are worth something.”
Alexander Minkin wrote in Moskovski Komsomolets: “MAYBE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF NAZI GERMANY HAD CONQUERED THE USSR IN 1945, OR EVEN IN 1941. IN THIS CASE WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOST 22 OR 30 MILLION PEOPLE. I DON'T COUNT STALIN'S MILLIONS OF VICTIMS”.
http://english.pravda.ru/russia/politics/07-05-2008/105113-victory_day-0
Source: http://english.pravda.ru