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Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: tikky on August 03, 2006, 11:47:43 PM

whoa... even i did not see this on the History Channel...

RARE COLORED VICTORY PARADE FILM from 1945 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4345407773692360801&q=red+square)

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: 1K3 on August 04, 2006, 02:29:13 AM

whoa.... much more impressive than the Nazis!

who's riding that white horse btw?

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: SirLoin on August 04, 2006, 04:00:46 AM

Check out the size of those tubes(Tank Destroyers)..Scroll to last 3 minutes.

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: Makarov9 on August 04, 2006, 09:56:31 AM

Damn, that's the one neat thing about dictatorships...you can do cool parades like that.

So many Mosin 91/30s and SVT-40s.

Oh, and for you Red Orchestra players, check out all those clown cars!

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: Boroda on August 04, 2006, 11:13:58 AM

Marshall Rokossovskiy commands the parade, marshall Zhukov takes the parade.

June, 24th, 1945.

My Father and Grandfather marched in this parade. Father was a cadet in Leningrad Naval Engineering College, he was in a joint parade crew and marched on Red Square parades 12 times. Grandfather was there too, he was an artillery captain, Guards Mortar Corps. Unfortunately I don't know in which formation he marched.

I need a better copy of this film to try finding Father's face: he must be easy to spot, he's in Black Sea Fleet batallion, right-hand, wearing a cap with a visor. They marched as Black Sea Fleet because sailors had an epic fist-fight in barracks in Moscow, so they had to bring fire brigades to cool them down.

Grandmother said that Grandfather got a new parade uniform made from English wool, and it was completely spoiled because of the rain: they stood in the rain for several hours.

It's interesting that the colour film was bought in the US, and operators were limited with film.

Another intersting thing: in Khruschev's time Lavrentiy Beriya was completely erased from the film, there was an empty space in a line on the Mausoleum where he stood. Colour version was first shown on TV on May 9th 1985, and it was probably the first time when Beriya was shown on TV.

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: cpxxx on August 05, 2006, 10:07:48 AM

Wow there are more troops on parade there than in the Irish army EVER!

Zhukov was on one of the grey horses, IK3,

About ten minutes in there is a shot of troops carrying their rifles, bayonets fixed, at high port, right into the backs of the guys in front. If ever there was an incentive to stay in step and maintain your dressing. That's it.

I also noticed a number of lend-lease Jeeps and Studebaker trucks in the parade.

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: FUNKED1 on August 05, 2006, 12:55:29 PM

I didn't see any coloreds in that film though???

Title: RARE COLORED 1945 Victory Parade film
Post by: 1K3 on August 05, 2006, 01:13:30 PM

lol is it true that after the parade Stalin banished Zhukov from his posts? Stalin thinks that he stole the show.  I also heard that Stalin wanted to ride on that poney but he fell, scared and gave that honor to Zhukov instead.  I also heard that Stalin was afraid of flying:noid