1/ If yesterday's Victory Day parade had been a true reflection of Russia's frontline army as it is now, it would have been a chaotic display of battered vehicles, motorbikes, exhausted soldiers on crutches, and donkeys. A Russian warblogger imagines how it could have been. ⬇️
2/ 'Jon Snow and the Second Singer' writes:
"A parade. It will be led by children carrying portraits of their fathers—old photographs, of course, from their civilian lives, from that time.
Mavic 3 drones will fly overhead.
3/ "Next will come a thin line of Chinese enduro bikes, dirty to the point of being colorless, with riders dressed in whatever’s available at Chechen military surplus stores: pink Chinese cartoon T-shirts, 5-ruble hats, 5.11 caps, and backpacks from Avito.
4/ "A few ATVs with trailers will pass by, hung with so many antennas that even satellites in space would go off the charts, and [footballer Anton] Dzyuba will lose his erection.
5/ "Something rattling and belching diesel fumes will speed by—something resembling a huge rusty shell-shaped garage with bristles of cables sticking out...
6/ "A ragged group of limping yokels will pass by, some on crutches. They all have huge, shapeless backpacks; some carry five-litre bottles of water, wearing fishermen’s winter boots.
7/ "A cowboy-style parade will trudge by, consisting of two horsemen and a donkey driver with a donkey loaded with 120 mines.
9/ "With the intensity of Mad Max, a convoy of five passenger cars, stripped down beyond recognition, will race by; inside, standing up, are dirty people with Vepr and Saiga shotguns.
9/ "Four Vampires [heavy drones] will fly by: one with a PG-7V [RPG], one with a TM-62 [mine], one with 1.5-litre bottles of drinking water, and one with bags of chicken bouillon cubes, instant noodles, and Snickers.
10/ "A passenger car with two women will drive by, packed with boxes and masks; a sticker on the rear tinted window reads “Z,” and a trailer with a gray tarp is hitched to the back—its contents are invisible.
11/ "Somewhere in the distance, a jet plane will fly by. It will be clear that it’s ours, but we won’t be able to see it.
12/ "Bringing up the rear will be a group of old, battered [UAZ] Patriots [SUVs] in various colours, one of them on a tow rope, with a trail of oil dripping from its axles trailing behind it. Above them, a Geran drone.
13/ "P.S. I forgot the loaf [UAZ-452 van]. It has to be a loaf with a grill and a mesh on top of it. So that on the bumps the back doors would open, and someone from inside would slam the door shut with a mat." /end
Source:
t.me/johnsnow2squad…
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