NATO troops invited to Victory Parade in Moscow

[GMantis]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/world/europe/07redsquare.html

A good gesture to improve relations. Though if I remember correctly no Russians were invited at the 60 year commemoration of the Normandy landings...

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Btw, Polish troops will march second just to the Russian.

[dead0man]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/world/europe/07redsquare.html

A good gesture to improve relations. Though if I remember correctly no Russians were invited at the 60 year commemoration of the Normandy landings...

The "victory parade", I assume, is for the overall victory in WWII.  The Normandy landing had, as far as I can remember, no Soviets involved.

Good gesture by the Russians.  Not so much you.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The "victory parade", I assume, is for the overall victory in WWII.  The Normandy landing had, as far as I can remember, no Soviets involved.

The victory parade commemorates Russia's victory in the Great Patriotic War.

[dead0man]

k....when the West has a parade for Victory on the Western Front you'll have a point if they don't invite Russia.

[GMantis]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/world/europe/07redsquare.html

A good gesture to improve relations. Though if I remember correctly no Russians were invited at the 60 year commemoration of the Normandy landings...

The "victory parade", I assume, is for the overall victory in WWII.  The Normandy landing had, as far as I can remember, no Soviets involved.

Good gesture by the Russians.  Not so much you.

I'm just pointing out an interesting contrast. Of course, no one was invited from the West to those parades earlier, so it's not as if there was a gesture to answer.
Still, if one were to consider what would happen to the Normandy landings if most of the German troops weren't held up on the Eastern front...

[Bo]

This really isn't a big deal.

[dead0man]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/world/europe/07redsquare.html

A good gesture to improve relations. Though if I remember correctly no Russians were invited at the 60 year commemoration of the Normandy landings...

The "victory parade", I assume, is for the overall victory in WWII.  The Normandy landing had, as far as I can remember, no Soviets involved.

Good gesture by the Russians.  Not so much you.

I'm just pointing out an interesting contrast. Of course, no one was invited from the West to those parades earlier, so it's not as if there was a gesture to answer.
Still, if one were to consider what would happen to the Normandy landings if most of the German troops weren't held up on the Eastern front...

Well at least you acknowledge it is quite a stretch you're trying to make here.