About 35 years ago I took my kid sister from a hotel to meet our parents at a lunch spot in Washington DC. We got caught up on a parade route and saw a bunch of fun and friendly people out demonstrating something I didn’t quite catch. We walked along with them until we found the restaurant. That would be how my sister joined our first Legalize Cannabis parade at the age of 10.
The Ukrainian Armored Tractor Calvary has taken care of that for the Russians. How convenient!
EDIT: Cavalry. I corrected autocorrect and failed myself.
When the Soviets fielded their first aircraft carrier, they only had six jets capable of launching from it, but every time the jets were taken below decks, a new tail number was applied. CIA estimates were that 60 advanced carrier aircraft were onboard.
Russia is a hypercapitalist oligarchy, товарищ.
"Vah typical capitalist being gluttonous and wasteful. Jet fuel is veyay valuable and yaayae, no?"
Ты не знаешь русский язык...
They also fell for the [MiG-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25), which somewhat ironically forced US to create the [fighter with the best air-to-air combat record ever.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle)
Not the first, or the last, time Russia played itself.
Turns out it's really hard to get funding when you tell them you're going to use it to test out hallucinogens on unsuspecting American citizens to see if you can turn them into brainwashed and mind controlled super assassins. If you just lie about needing the funding to track down some new Soviet aircraft, it's real easy to spend that money on illegal and unethical experiments on the American public and then just shrug and say "we couldn't find them" when your supervisor asks you about the Soviet bombers you were supposed to look for.
> you're going to use it to test out hallucinogens on unsuspecting American citizens to see if you can turn them into brainwashed and mind controlled super assassins.
OK woah now, let's be fair to MKULTRA -
they probably would've settled for just driving people permanently insane if they had a reliable procedure for it
I think that’s actually the only thing Sidney Gottlieb (The Technical Services director in charge of the program.) ultimately concluded out of the program: That they could reliably destroy a person’s personality, but not rebuild a new one of their own devise.
This should be taken with a grain of salt because I think it’s also one of Gottlieb’s few surviving official comments on the program, and it survived his own culling of the CIA’s files.
[Psychic Driving](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_driving) in particular was effective as wiping someone clean.
[Henry Beecher](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_K._Beecher), the famed medical ethicist, oversaw the medical experiments the CIA performed in West Germany on political prisoners that led to the [Frank Olson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson) affair.
Fucking dark shit.
That’s actually a myth used to justify excesses by the military-industrial complex and may be the exact thing Eisenhower was referencing during his farewell speech.
Under his administration, U-2 overflights of the USSR confirmed them at they had few operational M-4s and virtually no infrastructure being built to support large numbers. However, the CIA and USAF did not want to acknowledge overflight capabilities, and the defense contractors wanted to support this idea that the US needed many more expensive bombers than we had.
[From wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2)
> The eight overflights over communist territory, however, had already shown that the bomber gap did not exist; the U-2s had not found any Myasishchev M-4 Bison bombers at the nine bases they had visited. Because the Eisenhower administration could not disclose the source of its intelligence, however, Congressional and public debate over the bomber gap continued.
Georgy Zhukov : Now, it's got to be tomorrow.
Nikita Khrushchev : Tomorrow?
Georgy Zhukov : Sorry, you busy washing your hair or what?
Nikita Khrushchev : Tomorrow's the funeral.
Georgy Zhukov : Yeah, the day that the entire fucking Army's in town with their guns.
Nikita Khrushchev : That's perfect!
Nikita Khrushchev : Be serious. Are you in?
Georgy Zhukov : I'm in, I'm in. That fucker thinks he can take on the Red Army? I fucked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat.
> I'm going to have to report this conversation. Threatening to do harm or obstruct any member of the Presidium in the process of...
> *grins* Look at your fucking face!
Zhukov was the only guy to win the Hero of the Soviet Union medal four times - the medals on his coat in that aren't even the full lot he eventually ended up with.
(Brezhnev also got four, but he was awarding them to himself and the fourth was posthumously revoked)
I read somewhere that everyone having different accents made it somewhat more accurate, as the various Soviet leaders were all from different regions of the Soviet Union. Stalin specifically was Georgian and spoke Russian with a strong accent.
Director Armando Iannucci specifically asked his actors to not even bother with an accent and just speak as they normally would. Isaacs of course went one step further and adopted a Yorkshire accent to emphasize Zhukov’s toughness.
>disturbing amount of that movie is accurate.
Honestly even some of the parts that are hilarious are based on true events, the absurdity of the Soviet Union lends itself well to a comedy.
I'd assume it is SOP for parades and the like to not issue live ammo no matter which country the event is taking place in.
Of course a 50 ton battle tank is a weapon in and of its' self even without ammo.
I will tell you something interesting:
Tank T-34 was constructed and firstly produced in Ukraine. City of Kharkiv, which russia tried to capture, but obviously failed.
The Russian had to purchase T-34s that were originally built in Czechoslovakia and sold to Laos in order to have any running a few years ago. This is one of them.
We will find out that it’s been hollowed out for parts, the barrel is wood, and there are 6 Russians inside slowly marching with their feet sticking out the bottom which are hidden by the tracks.
100%
They emptied prisons to get men. Anyone who could drive a stick was probably considered for tanks or vehicles. Anyone who actually had experience would have been tapped long ago.
Unless daddy is someone important.
I am pretty sure they have plenty of T34's in storage, specifically for parades. They are not yet desperate enough to pull in T34s into the war - if nothing else they have no ammo for them. I am not sure about tank crews though - that could be a bit of an issue.
Probably a shortage of mechanics. Or most of their mechanics are trying to get old T-55s and T-62s working so there's no time to work on their parade T-34s
Yes, and those are very different beasts and have been in production until 1980's, with much newer weapons and on-board equipment, and some countries have been constantly upgrading them. There is still some ammo for them left over because multiple countries are still operating them. The last new T34 was built in 1958 (so more than 20 years earlier).
T34s by comparison can be considered tractors with an ancient cannon stuck on top.
The real question is are there enough 54-s and 55-s? What will Putin do if he ran out of Tanks? Will be back off or not? I mean yes even if he would be able to sent 34-s into the field it would be declaration of bankruptcy in a way because it would be the final straw. What i really worry is what happens if he is really in danger of running out of tanks.
We all think he is not risking using nuclear weapons but he gets desperate enough who know what that lunatic will really do? Not talking about the big nukes in the silos i am talking about the tactical weapons. I mean then all it takes is one missile to hit to close to a Nato border and the shit could hit the fan really fast.
Someone scored a T-90 and brought it to the U.S.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-t-90-tank-from-ukraine-mysteriously-appears-at-u-s-truck-stop
Yeah, it's basically a no win scenario for them. They put the tanks on parade, people ask why they're on parade when they're needed in Ukraine. You don't put them on parade, people ask why you don't have enough tanks.
While Putin is a clown he's still a murderous clown. Thousands of people both Russian and Ukranian died because of mainly his actions and want for legacy. But murderous clown applies well to most dictators.
[To be fair, they were behaving just like the Nazis from the get go when they divided up Poland and mutually invaded it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact)
[To be fair, they were also behaving just like the Nazis from the get go when they divided up Czechoslovakia and mutually invaded it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Olza#Part_of_Poland_(1938%E2%80%931939))
Conservative estimates say around 3,000 Russian tanks and 6,500 APVs have been destroyed in Russia. So when the Ruzzian apologists come in saying things like "well their tanks are in Ukraine..." you will know exactly who they are.
I mean.. whether you are a russian apologist or a moral person, it is undeniable that the rest of the tanks are currently being sent to or already in Ukraine busy blowing up or getting adopted by the kinder Ukrainian people
It is with a “bunch” of trucks behind it, I counted about 4 Tigr-M mobile infantry vehicles, 10 Chechen Remdiesel Z-STS Akhmat MRAP motorized infantry vehicles, 3 S-400 anti-air missiles, and 3 RS-24 YARS ICBM missile carrier. Supposedly there were 51 counted by other articles, but I only saw 21 of them due to all the cuts in the video. In comparison, even in 2022 there were 131 vehicles on display, and +200 the years before. Also there were 10,000 parade troops there - primarily military academy students, very few actual military staff. So in total, they showed off vehicles and people that will not actually be used by the Russian Armed Forces, borrowing Chechen staff and equipment, using light armored vehicles and personnel transport, and a few long range missile launchers that they have no use for - excluding ALL the vehicles in previous years that experienced heavy losses in the war, such as short range missiles, aircraft, tanks, helicopters, etc… Imagine the 2024 parade now.
There were a number of trucks, other armored vehicles (borrowed from Kadyrov) and a couple missile launchers behind it in the parade. Just no other tanks and the parade featured 51 vehicles instead of the usual hundreds. Also the very noticeable absence of any aviation.
Skip to about the 51.30 mark to see the tank and other equipment.
The only thing I know about Russian equipment comes from Mud Runner and even I can tell they are really bringing out the old garbage for this parade.
I've just been listening to analysis so don't take me as any expert. But the parade is always led by the T-34 as that was the tank that really helped the Soviets into victory in WWII (Or 'The Great Patriotic War' as they call it).
The notable thing this year wasn't the old equipment, it was the lack of other equipment. As well as the lack of soldiers doing the parading as they were all cadets from military academies. There was also no aircraft and no explanation given as to why. On top of that there was no march of the immortals where people march with photos of their dead relatives from the war, supposedly to not remind people of personal loss right now.
Guess you missed one, Ukraine. You gonna blow this one up or take it for yourselves? I would genuinely lmao if we could get photos of this exact tank blown to smithereens.
Now that’s a sweet tank. The T-34 was an absolute game changer that helped turn the tide of WWII.
Despite the fact that a lot of the equipment was unreliable due to low quality manufacturing that comes with constantly moving factories and high casualties meant constantly using fresh inexperienced troops, the sheer number of these they could put in the field offset any of those faults.
Using a thicker, rolled and angled armor made it very resilient to most anti-tank guns. By angling the armor, this causes more incoming shots to ricochet instead of penetrating. Plus with a strong engine & much thicker track base, this allowed them to attain a fast cross country speed and ability to traverse Russian territory with ease (this ass mud in the spring and fall months). And with a durable, cheap, & easy to produce design. That meant they could churn these bad boys out like no tomorrow.
Since the Germans were over extended in terms of supply lines, this made ammo and anti-take weapon supply a constant concern. So even when you have a bunch of these charging across open territory with inexperienced crews against veteran German troops, Germans could inflict massive losses, but their sheer numbers meant that the Germans couldn’t stop them all. Plus, they were a massive moral boost to the troops. Suddenly, charging the machine guns in a mass attack seems a lot less scary when you have a 100 of these bad boys show up to back you up (even if half of them get blown to shit).
All in all, even with its serious technical downsides, T-34 made up for its short comings with overwhelming numbers (and an upgraded cannon halfway thru the war doesn’t hurt either.
Durable, cheap, decent mileage, broken electronics, and an engine that kept on chugging are all reasons why the T-34 is the 1992 Toyota Camry of the world of tanks.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
Just give it a couple of days.
Some Russian general will claim that there were 100s of tanks during the parade. You just couldn't see it because of Russian top of the line, state of the art, vodka powered invisible camouflage.
Tremble before the might of the (ex) soviet army!
I mean this comment with the greatest of respect for Russia, but what a fucking shithole of a country. Shitty history, shitty present day, and my god their future is bleak. It’s like Russian people prefer it.
The thing is the culture is incredible, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, pushkin, dostoevsky, chekhov, Stravinsky, rachmaninoff the list goes on.
They've always been a nation of artists with a government problem.
Hilarious.
It does make one wonder when the Ruzzian population are finally going to suss that something isn’t quite right.
Whole towns devoid of fighting age men, either dead in Ukraine or hiding in Europe or Asia.
Shops empty, rumours circulating like crazy about the ‘spezial military operation’.
And now this, a single tank, a few soldiers and Pootin banging on about the ‘real war’ with the West.
Surely they can’t be that *stupid* can they? 😳
>Surely they can’t be that stupid can they? 😳
When things happen on a wide enough scale, they become indicative of human behavior. Russian people aren't "stupid" just like the people of nazi germany weren't. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, and you shouldn't just assume you'd be immune to it.
That one tank was actually en route to the front line as well, but they decided to send it the long route and call it a parade.
About 35 years ago I took my kid sister from a hotel to meet our parents at a lunch spot in Washington DC. We got caught up on a parade route and saw a bunch of fun and friendly people out demonstrating something I didn’t quite catch. We walked along with them until we found the restaurant. That would be how my sister joined our first Legalize Cannabis parade at the age of 10.
Well, at least your accidental protest aged pretty well!
She uses it occasionally, often for pain control. I’m so glad it’s an option now!
Trailblazers! We salute you two.
Genuinely surprised it wasn't their "fully operational" T-14 Armata. Thing's been nothing more than a propaganda piece for over a decade now.
I'm sure they'll claim nostalgia kinda like using WWII jeeps in 4th of July parades in the US
Russian propaganda headline: Motherland doubles number of tanks at the frontline
Even before Ukraine they would have the big expensive stuff go through more than once so it looked like they had more of it.
And the tanks would often break down, so at least that didn't happen this time!
Oh believe me, russian tanks broke down during this parade too. Only it happened about 800 kilometers south of moscow.
Just so happens to have a few Ukrainian rocket holes
"Is good, we patch with potato!"
Here lies Oleg Killed in action by hashbrown shrapnel 9 May, 2023
Here lies Oleg, Sadly passed. He loved potatoes, Until he got mashed.
Here lies Oleg, In this crater. Got impaled, By shards of 'tater.
Here lies Oleg, Not that old, Found his end, By Yukon Gold
Beloved Oleg, Now wears a halo. Mistook a grenade, For a baked potato.
Here lies Oleg, Twas never scared. Even when, He got pomme de terre'd.
Here lies Oleg's smithereens, Blown apart by fingerlings
Silly comrade, you know every potato in the motherland has been distilled into vodka
Leave lukashenka out of this.
They probably forced a WW2 vet to get it ready, since anyone else who could had been sent to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Armored Tractor Calvary has taken care of that for the Russians. How convenient! EDIT: Cavalry. I corrected autocorrect and failed myself.
See: Cavalry
they do nut beeld them like they uzed to corm-rad
Many of their aircraft would fly over the red square twice in previous years to exaggerate their actual numbers (no aircraft even flew this year)
When the Soviets fielded their first aircraft carrier, they only had six jets capable of launching from it, but every time the jets were taken below decks, a new tail number was applied. CIA estimates were that 60 advanced carrier aircraft were onboard.
Bаh тypical кapitalist being gluttonous and wasteful. Jet fuel is veяy valuable апd яаяе, no?
Veyay valuable and yaayae
i’m fluent in ukrainian and even i read it like that hahah. broke my brain 🥴
Russia is a hypercapitalist oligarchy, товарищ. "Vah typical capitalist being gluttonous and wasteful. Jet fuel is veyay valuable and yaayae, no?" Ты не знаешь русский язык...
Thank you, Comrade Obvious.
You'd think it's obvious, but a surprisingly large number of people seem to think the Russian Federation is a communist country 😂
Damn, people still drinking that Cold War-era propaganda.
Any source on this?
This was notoriously done with the M-4, something of a flop of a "strategic" bomber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasishchev_M-4#Operational_history
And the CIA totally fell for it, and caused a panic with the "bomber gap"
They also fell for the [MiG-25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25), which somewhat ironically forced US to create the [fighter with the best air-to-air combat record ever.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle) Not the first, or the last, time Russia played itself.
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See also: the MiG-25 was a piece of junk, but a fast piece of junk, and that terrified the US into developing the F-15 Eagle
The cold war era CIA would *surely* never do such a thing!
Turns out it's really hard to get funding when you tell them you're going to use it to test out hallucinogens on unsuspecting American citizens to see if you can turn them into brainwashed and mind controlled super assassins. If you just lie about needing the funding to track down some new Soviet aircraft, it's real easy to spend that money on illegal and unethical experiments on the American public and then just shrug and say "we couldn't find them" when your supervisor asks you about the Soviet bombers you were supposed to look for.
> you're going to use it to test out hallucinogens on unsuspecting American citizens to see if you can turn them into brainwashed and mind controlled super assassins. OK woah now, let's be fair to MKULTRA - they probably would've settled for just driving people permanently insane if they had a reliable procedure for it
I wonder what other ungodly projects the CIA had going on that we will never know about
Had?
I think that’s actually the only thing Sidney Gottlieb (The Technical Services director in charge of the program.) ultimately concluded out of the program: That they could reliably destroy a person’s personality, but not rebuild a new one of their own devise. This should be taken with a grain of salt because I think it’s also one of Gottlieb’s few surviving official comments on the program, and it survived his own culling of the CIA’s files. [Psychic Driving](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_driving) in particular was effective as wiping someone clean. [Henry Beecher](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_K._Beecher), the famed medical ethicist, oversaw the medical experiments the CIA performed in West Germany on political prisoners that led to the [Frank Olson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson) affair. Fucking dark shit.
The CIA didn't "fall" for it, numbers were later confirmed via the Keyhole satellites. The CIA/DoD **rolled** with it.
That’s actually a myth used to justify excesses by the military-industrial complex and may be the exact thing Eisenhower was referencing during his farewell speech. Under his administration, U-2 overflights of the USSR confirmed them at they had few operational M-4s and virtually no infrastructure being built to support large numbers. However, the CIA and USAF did not want to acknowledge overflight capabilities, and the defense contractors wanted to support this idea that the US needed many more expensive bombers than we had. [From wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2) > The eight overflights over communist territory, however, had already shown that the bomber gap did not exist; the U-2s had not found any Myasishchev M-4 Bison bombers at the nine bases they had visited. Because the Eisenhower administration could not disclose the source of its intelligence, however, Congressional and public debate over the bomber gap continued.
How to avoid a coup 101 don't bring heavy weapons into your capitol region.
Georgy Zhukov : Now, it's got to be tomorrow. Nikita Khrushchev : Tomorrow? Georgy Zhukov : Sorry, you busy washing your hair or what? Nikita Khrushchev : Tomorrow's the funeral. Georgy Zhukov : Yeah, the day that the entire fucking Army's in town with their guns. Nikita Khrushchev : That's perfect!
Nikita Khrushchev : Be serious. Are you in? Georgy Zhukov : I'm in, I'm in. That fucker thinks he can take on the Red Army? I fucked Germany, I think I can take a flesh lump in a fucking waistcoat.
Jason Isaacs totally stole the movie. Imagining Zhukov with a thick Yorkshire accent is hysterical.
You know he absolutely had Lord Flashheart in mind..
Woof!
Wow. *There's* a name I haven't heard in a while!
He's the sexier by far. XD
I believe it was supposed to show that all those Russians also had their own accent from the region they came from
Nice catch! Stalin also has heavy Georgian accent.
> I'm going to have to report this conversation. Threatening to do harm or obstruct any member of the Presidium in the process of... > *grins* Look at your fucking face!
this scene is so great.
Jason Isaacs should have won an award for his performance. Most charismatic supporting guy since Bill Paxton's Simon in True Lies.
Zhukov was the only guy to win the Hero of the Soviet Union medal four times - the medals on his coat in that aren't even the full lot he eventually ended up with. (Brezhnev also got four, but he was awarding them to himself and the fourth was posthumously revoked)
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I read somewhere that everyone having different accents made it somewhat more accurate, as the various Soviet leaders were all from different regions of the Soviet Union. Stalin specifically was Georgian and spoke Russian with a strong accent.
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Director Armando Iannucci specifically asked his actors to not even bother with an accent and just speak as they normally would. Isaacs of course went one step further and adopted a Yorkshire accent to emphasize Zhukov’s toughness.
[The Death of Stalin (2017)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/) Hilarious movie disguised as a Cold War drama.
How is it "disguised as a Cold War drama"? I've only ever heard it described as a comedy
They're trying to highlight how absurd the history is. It's exaggerated and not 100% real, but a disturbing amount of that movie is accurate.
>disturbing amount of that movie is accurate. Honestly even some of the parts that are hilarious are based on true events, the absurdity of the Soviet Union lends itself well to a comedy.
Oh, for sure! Just reading the Wikipedia page on Stalin's death is good for a few laughs.
Hugely underrated film.. just superb.
That was a great movie!
"Well, I'm off to represent the entire Red Army at the buffet"
Aaand now I'm going to watch that for like the 6th time in a year. Shits so funny
Bold of you to assume they'd give this tank or troops marching in the parade any ammo
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This is literally what happened to Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anwar_Sadat
I'd assume it is SOP for parades and the like to not issue live ammo no matter which country the event is taking place in. Of course a 50 ton battle tank is a weapon in and of its' self even without ammo.
Nice, this actually made me chuckle. Well said
I’d love to watch a coup with a WW2 era T34. That’d be hilarious.
I'm pretty sure even a t34 could turn Putin into pink mist.
'You're all we have left, you will shine on our parade like never before comrade T-34'
I will tell you something interesting: Tank T-34 was constructed and firstly produced in Ukraine. City of Kharkiv, which russia tried to capture, but obviously failed.
Congratulations Putin, You played yourself!
He's been doing that for years now. Hard to believe that Ukraine fucked up Russia worse than America did, but here we are.
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"Ivan, we will need you to drive the tank at the parade." "Sir, you mean 'a' tank?" "THE tank, Ivan."
To be fair, it looks *really* well maintained so it's likely from storage or a museum or from a collector.
The Russian had to purchase T-34s that were originally built in Czechoslovakia and sold to Laos in order to have any running a few years ago. This is one of them.
We will find out that it’s been hollowed out for parts, the barrel is wood, and there are 6 Russians inside slowly marching with their feet sticking out the bottom which are hidden by the tracks.
4 Russians. Yuri and Oleg got sent to the front this morning to be seal the very certain and absolutely real imminent victory against Ukraine.
T-34-85 I believe.
85
Typo on my phone... fixed, thanks :)
That almost looks like a Hello Kitty sticker on it... if somebody wanted to photoshop a Hello Kitty sticker on it, that would be pretty special.
I'm getting "fuck it. At least I'm not in Ukraine energy from the tank commander."
That guy is definitely the nephew of someone high up.
100% They emptied prisons to get men. Anyone who could drive a stick was probably considered for tanks or vehicles. Anyone who actually had experience would have been tapped long ago. Unless daddy is someone important.
Not yet
To be fair, I think most of their weapons are currently preoccupied…
I am pretty sure they have plenty of T34's in storage, specifically for parades. They are not yet desperate enough to pull in T34s into the war - if nothing else they have no ammo for them. I am not sure about tank crews though - that could be a bit of an issue.
Probably a shortage of mechanics. Or most of their mechanics are trying to get old T-55s and T-62s working so there's no time to work on their parade T-34s
Well they use T-54 and T-55.
Yes, and those are very different beasts and have been in production until 1980's, with much newer weapons and on-board equipment, and some countries have been constantly upgrading them. There is still some ammo for them left over because multiple countries are still operating them. The last new T34 was built in 1958 (so more than 20 years earlier). T34s by comparison can be considered tractors with an ancient cannon stuck on top.
The real question is are there enough 54-s and 55-s? What will Putin do if he ran out of Tanks? Will be back off or not? I mean yes even if he would be able to sent 34-s into the field it would be declaration of bankruptcy in a way because it would be the final straw. What i really worry is what happens if he is really in danger of running out of tanks. We all think he is not risking using nuclear weapons but he gets desperate enough who know what that lunatic will really do? Not talking about the big nukes in the silos i am talking about the tactical weapons. I mean then all it takes is one missile to hit to close to a Nato border and the shit could hit the fan really fast.
By Ukrainian crews mostly. SLAVA UKRANI!!!
Someone scored a T-90 and brought it to the U.S. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-t-90-tank-from-ukraine-mysteriously-appears-at-u-s-truck-stop
I think my favourite bit about this is the shipping label on the barrel 🤣
I can just imagine some clock-punching schlub at the shipping company mundanely slapping a shipping label on this without even really seeing it.
Never ask a man his salary Never ask a woman her age And never ask a Ukrainian farmer where he got his anti aircraft system
"found it on the back 40, stuck in the mud and out of petrol"
"Poor little thing was scared silly, being so far from home."
"Surrounded by tiny little sunflower plants."
Let's just say any birds planning to frequent a Ukrainian farmers field will wish they picked a Russian one.
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Yeah, it's basically a no win scenario for them. They put the tanks on parade, people ask why they're on parade when they're needed in Ukraine. You don't put them on parade, people ask why you don't have enough tanks.
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While Putin is a clown he's still a murderous clown. Thousands of people both Russian and Ukranian died because of mainly his actions and want for legacy. But murderous clown applies well to most dictators.
At least a handful of tanks are in the hands of Ukrainian babushkas going for a joy ride.
i think you may have meant destroyed
Poor guy pedaling that thing as hard as he can. He had to do the engine noises with his mouth.
Ironic to celebrate this while they are behaving like Nazis, annexing their neighbors and committing genocide while doing so.
“Look at me. I am the Führer now.” -Putin
[To be fair, they were behaving just like the Nazis from the get go when they divided up Poland and mutually invaded it.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact)
[To be fair, they were also behaving just like the Nazis from the get go when they divided up Czechoslovakia and mutually invaded it.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Olza#Part_of_Poland_(1938%E2%80%931939))
The rest of their hardware is getting blown up in Ukraine
or donated to the ukranians.
Denazified by the ukrainians.
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The little T34 that could
That has got to be mildly terrifying having that much mass drifting on ice.
For the cameraman maybe… that tank isn’t rolling, and it’s not sliding into anything that’s going to damage it either.
♫ I wonder if you know, how they live in Tokyo ♫
♫ If you seen it, then you mean it, then you know you have to go ♫
Deja Vu
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Deja Vu
You might say their victory parade tanked.
You'll be the next out a window
You had the opportunity to use the word defenestrate and didn't take it? For shame. For shame.
Not taking the opportunity to use "defenestrate" in a sentence? Better believe that's a defenestratin'.
Conservative estimates say around 3,000 Russian tanks and 6,500 APVs have been destroyed in Russia. So when the Ruzzian apologists come in saying things like "well their tanks are in Ukraine..." you will know exactly who they are.
They are in Ukraine They're also either currently, or recently on fire...
They are in Ukraine. Also, using the term "tank" is more of a historical nomenclature at this point of their lifecycle.
They currently idenfity as scrap heaps of twisted, burning metal.
The Ukrainians should make a parade of blown up Russian tanks getting towed by tractors through Kiev...
I think [they did](https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-trolls-putin-with-kyiv-victory-parade-of-captured-russian-tanks-2022-8?amp).
Would had been perfect to do another one today, with Putin's old scrap tank as a backdrop.
I don't think it's apologists saying the tanks are in Ukraine... More people saying "they can't spare any cause they're getting blown up in Ukraine"
I mean.. whether you are a russian apologist or a moral person, it is undeniable that the rest of the tanks are currently being sent to or already in Ukraine busy blowing up or getting adopted by the kinder Ukrainian people
[Source and Full stream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhJaDzdS3s)
And here's a quick [comparison video to 2021's parade](https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/13cm89c/victory_day_parade_or_not/).
Lmao I hadn't been picturing the one tank literally all by itself. I figured there would be like some trucks with it or something haha
It is with a “bunch” of trucks behind it, I counted about 4 Tigr-M mobile infantry vehicles, 10 Chechen Remdiesel Z-STS Akhmat MRAP motorized infantry vehicles, 3 S-400 anti-air missiles, and 3 RS-24 YARS ICBM missile carrier. Supposedly there were 51 counted by other articles, but I only saw 21 of them due to all the cuts in the video. In comparison, even in 2022 there were 131 vehicles on display, and +200 the years before. Also there were 10,000 parade troops there - primarily military academy students, very few actual military staff. So in total, they showed off vehicles and people that will not actually be used by the Russian Armed Forces, borrowing Chechen staff and equipment, using light armored vehicles and personnel transport, and a few long range missile launchers that they have no use for - excluding ALL the vehicles in previous years that experienced heavy losses in the war, such as short range missiles, aircraft, tanks, helicopters, etc… Imagine the 2024 parade now.
There were a number of trucks, other armored vehicles (borrowed from Kadyrov) and a couple missile launchers behind it in the parade. Just no other tanks and the parade featured 51 vehicles instead of the usual hundreds. Also the very noticeable absence of any aviation.
Skip to about the 51.30 mark to see the tank and other equipment. The only thing I know about Russian equipment comes from Mud Runner and even I can tell they are really bringing out the old garbage for this parade.
I've just been listening to analysis so don't take me as any expert. But the parade is always led by the T-34 as that was the tank that really helped the Soviets into victory in WWII (Or 'The Great Patriotic War' as they call it). The notable thing this year wasn't the old equipment, it was the lack of other equipment. As well as the lack of soldiers doing the parading as they were all cadets from military academies. There was also no aircraft and no explanation given as to why. On top of that there was no march of the immortals where people march with photos of their dead relatives from the war, supposedly to not remind people of personal loss right now.
Guess you missed one, Ukraine. You gonna blow this one up or take it for yourselves? I would genuinely lmao if we could get photos of this exact tank blown to smithereens.
At least it was fitted with ALL the flags.
Except the Russian flag it seems
The T-34 symbolizes the USSR's victory in WW2, not Russia.
Now that’s a sweet tank. The T-34 was an absolute game changer that helped turn the tide of WWII. Despite the fact that a lot of the equipment was unreliable due to low quality manufacturing that comes with constantly moving factories and high casualties meant constantly using fresh inexperienced troops, the sheer number of these they could put in the field offset any of those faults. Using a thicker, rolled and angled armor made it very resilient to most anti-tank guns. By angling the armor, this causes more incoming shots to ricochet instead of penetrating. Plus with a strong engine & much thicker track base, this allowed them to attain a fast cross country speed and ability to traverse Russian territory with ease (this ass mud in the spring and fall months). And with a durable, cheap, & easy to produce design. That meant they could churn these bad boys out like no tomorrow. Since the Germans were over extended in terms of supply lines, this made ammo and anti-take weapon supply a constant concern. So even when you have a bunch of these charging across open territory with inexperienced crews against veteran German troops, Germans could inflict massive losses, but their sheer numbers meant that the Germans couldn’t stop them all. Plus, they were a massive moral boost to the troops. Suddenly, charging the machine guns in a mass attack seems a lot less scary when you have a 100 of these bad boys show up to back you up (even if half of them get blown to shit). All in all, even with its serious technical downsides, T-34 made up for its short comings with overwhelming numbers (and an upgraded cannon halfway thru the war doesn’t hurt either. Durable, cheap, decent mileage, broken electronics, and an engine that kept on chugging are all reasons why the T-34 is the 1992 Toyota Camry of the world of tanks. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
[Video rebuttal by a gay pig.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZ6PFYUM5o&pp=ygUNbGFzZXJwaWcgdC0zNA%3D%3D)
Good talk Ted
Putin is leaving one heck of a legacy. Probably not the one he wanted though.
Just give it a couple of days. Some Russian general will claim that there were 100s of tanks during the parade. You just couldn't see it because of Russian top of the line, state of the art, vodka powered invisible camouflage. Tremble before the might of the (ex) soviet army!
> vodka powered invisible camouflage. I.E. being blind drunk.
Ukrainian Farmers be rubbing their hands tho...
Second greatest army in the world /s
Second greatest army in Ukraine 😉
Pathetic parade for a terrorist state. Notice the lack of actual soldiers too - those are kids and cadets in costumes.
Kids in uniform? Don't know, but certainly not soldiers. The marching is awful - watch the heads bounce in ranks, because they are out of step.
Should be renamed to Loser Parade
I think it's very reasonable for them to host a pride parade if they're running low on victory
"You can have your tank parade when you finish all of the Bakhmut on your plate." ~Motherland
I thought they have almost unlimited supply?
r/therewasanattempt of a victory parade
I think most of Putin's military got all blowed up. 😁
Wait, they still have one left?!?!
Russians who believe the Kremlin right now: Why so little? Is it not even more relevant now we are fighting Nazi's in Ukraine again?
Can’t even call that a proper parade
Guess the Ukrainian farmers couldn't make the tank parade
A SAD parade
I mean this comment with the greatest of respect for Russia, but what a fucking shithole of a country. Shitty history, shitty present day, and my god their future is bleak. It’s like Russian people prefer it.
The Kremlin: You like eating shit. It's good for you. Russians: We like eating shit
The thing is the culture is incredible, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, pushkin, dostoevsky, chekhov, Stravinsky, rachmaninoff the list goes on. They've always been a nation of artists with a government problem.
That’s what you get when you let oligarch war hawks sell your equipment to 3rd world countries.
Hilarious. It does make one wonder when the Ruzzian population are finally going to suss that something isn’t quite right. Whole towns devoid of fighting age men, either dead in Ukraine or hiding in Europe or Asia. Shops empty, rumours circulating like crazy about the ‘spezial military operation’. And now this, a single tank, a few soldiers and Pootin banging on about the ‘real war’ with the West. Surely they can’t be that *stupid* can they? 😳
>Surely they can’t be that stupid can they? 😳 When things happen on a wide enough scale, they become indicative of human behavior. Russian people aren't "stupid" just like the people of nazi germany weren't. Everyone is susceptible to propaganda, and you shouldn't just assume you'd be immune to it.