Having grown up during the cold war, I’ve watched the Victory Day parades, with the Soviet Union showing off all it’s weapons - airplanes, tanks, manpower . . . I would have never thought in my lifetime I’d see Western Troops marching alongside their Russian counterparts.
Medvedev invited American, French, British, Polish troops to march in Red Sqaure today in Russia’s most important secular holiday - many foreign leaders also attended including China’s Hu Jintao and Israeli President Shimon Peres.
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Full video coverage of the parade, including 127 aircraft!!!
To put things into perspective, WWII lasted 1,418 days.
The USSR lost 27 million citizens.
That works out to 19,040 citizens died on average every single day of the war.
US troops were ‘C’ Company from US 170th Infantry Brigade and can be seen marching thru Red Square at 30:42 of video one.
Part One; - YouTube)
Part Two; - YouTube)
at 13:40 of part two the helicopters arrive, followed at 15:45 the aircraft begin.
at 14:40 you’ll see fighter jets in formation over the helicopters, together they spell out the number 65 for the 65th anniversary.
