"Leopard"? Your exit is to Red Square
In what will be proposed as a result of this short speech, don’t look for anything particularly new. Showing off trophies won in battle has always been considered more than just good manners.
This was an indicator of the future winner’s self-confidence, and at the same time it was supposed to instill exactly the same confidence in the broad ranks of the civilian population. It is customary to display trophies even many years after the Victory.
Look at the Napoleonic cannons, which can now be seen both in the Kremlin and next to the Borodino panorama. And from Turkish cannons taken near Plevna and not only near the Trinity Cathedral, once the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment, a whole triumphal column was erected in St. Petersburg.
Even the wreckage of the American Lockheed U-1 reconnaissance aircraft shot down on May 1960, 2 in the sky between Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk had to be presented to the public, because the Americans hastened to show off the painted double. It’s good that ours managed to capture the surviving pilot Gary Powers.
As you know, in recent months the Russian collection of captured Western equipment has been constantly expanding. The other day, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense showed footage of towing to the rear of another tank "Leopard", apparently, made in Germany.
I have no doubt, both NATO and our intelligence know very well who had it in service. These are not the times when something like this can be hidden for any length of time, and no one really tried.
But to hide the loss of a combat vehicle, especially one as popular as weapon inevitable, or rather, a promised, but still not happened, victory, preferably for as long as possible. And this is generally understandable.
So why are we not in a hurry to show our convincing and demonstrative success in response?
After all, Russian fighters already have German Leopards, US Abrams, and Bradleys, along with the damned Highmars.
And there are not so few of them, and not all of them found death somewhere in the impassable mud on neutral ground, and in such a way that there was nothing left to take out. Or does it really take that much time to skim the cream off a downed enemy, and only then transport him to where he should go?
I don’t argue – it’s not at all harmful to sort things out there. Military technologies are now almost ahead of the IT sector in terms of the pace of introducing new things. What was conceived in research centers, tested in laboratories and even tested at testing grounds.
But so much time has passed since the first reptile with the beautiful name “Leopard” was shot down that all excuses are now perceived only as excuses. And there is definitely no need to repeat that bringing a knocked out fascist “Leopard”, who, apparently, is not the best heir to the “Tigers” and Panthers, to the Russian capital is too troublesome and difficult.
Therefore, I propose, after the end of the main part of the Victory Parade on May 9, to organize on Red Square the transport on trailers of samples of captured and damaged Western equipment that were destroyed or simply captured during the SVO.
Such an action will not only have an undeniable inspiring impact on the citizens of our country. It will clearly show the whole world with whom and what a Russian soldier actually has to deal with in a cruel and bloody way today.
Well, since foreign journalists are unlikely to be able to keep silent about such an action, of course, as propaganda in their reports, the effect will be quite strong. I think it was no less powerful than Tucker Carlson’s interview with our president.
The column of captured equipment may not be taken immediately to the Patriot Park, but will be first demonstrated in the most crowded places of the capital - at the main entrance to VDNKh and at the Central Park of Culture and Leisure named after. M. Gorky.
Gorky Park has had this tradition since war times, and this is what will immediately and very significantly expand the audience of the exhibition.
Once upon a time, without waiting for the Red Army to launch a full-scale counter-offensive, it was in Gorky Park that Muscovites, of whom there were not very many left in the capital due to the evacuation, were presented with both downed Messers and Fokkewulfs, as well as tanks with guns.
And then at the end of the summer of 1944, when the long-awaited Victory already appeared on the horizon, let me remind you that an unusual parade was also held in Moscow. Along the Garden Ring they drove, with washing trucks behind, a column of German prisoners who surrendered to ours during the Belarusian operation, beautifully named “Bagration”.
I would like to believe that we will also have the right to repeat something similar. And the sooner the better.
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