Great Patriotic War pics...

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:28 pm

From the "English Russia" blog, some pics from the Great Patriotic War, which is what Russians call WWII. Russia will celebrate the 65th anniversary of the GPW soon, on June 22nd I believe.

GPW pics: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010 ... more-12491

Dauntless · Post by **Dauntless** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:42 pm

That's a cool site. I could spend hours looking through it.

Is it just me or do the Ruskies have a great sense of humor?

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:42 pm

Dauntless wrote:That's a cool site. I could spend hours looking through it.

Is it just me or do the Ruskies have a great sense of humor?

I know I spent an hour on it last night....

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:14 pm

Is it just me or do the Ruskies have a great sense of humor?

Some might call it a gallows humor, but yes, I've noticed it too... Russians are not always the stony faced humorless lot they have been portrayed to be. The blog gets updated pretty much daily, and I try to check in a couple of times a week, there's always something interesting to see there.

Dauntless · Post by **Dauntless** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 6:17 pm

They've got a lot of pics of abandoned military hardware too which is cool.

D'ya see the giant Ekranoplan?

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010 ... more-11522

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:35 am

There is plenty of ex Soviet military hardware to see, like crumbling missile silos and that sort of thing, but there's also a lot of what I would call "human interest" stuff, the kind of things that give you a little bit of a window into daily life, the history and culture etc. of the country and it's inhabitants. To the average American, Russia and it's people are very much an enigma, almost like an alien planet, and sites like English Russia are a good place for those who are willing to take the time to explore a little bit to gain some knowledge and insight into a nation that occupies 1/6th of the earth's surface.

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