Russia Revives Red Square Military Parade
May 4, 2008
More than 100 tanks, rocket launchers and armored vehicles, flanked by 8,000 soldiers, rattled across the tarmac, while sorties of jet fighters ripped through the sky as army generals saluted below.
The display wasn’t in communist North Korea or China. It was a practice for a May 9 parade of Russian military hardware on Moscow’s Red Square, the first since the Soviet era. The rehearsal on April 22 took place at Alabino, 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Moscow, on an overcast morning and accompanied by a recording of Kremlin chimes.
“When you are dealing with other countries, you should not look weak,” says Konstantin Fedotov, 82, a retired colonel who took part in the first parade in June 1945 and is one of about 20 veterans watching the rehearsal. “We have to show that we are not toothless and can react to events against us now.”
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