Does anyone else like looking at Military Parades?

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I seriously enjoy looking at both pictures and video of the military parades that countries like Russia, North Korea and China still hold quite regularly to this day.

Russia - Victory Parade (May 9th, Moscow)
The Moscow Victory Day Parade in Moscow was held on 9 May, 2011 to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The parade marked the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.
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China - 60th Anniversary Military Parade (2009)

The 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China took place on 1 October 2009. A military parade involving 10,000 troops and the display of many high tech weapons was held at Tiananmen Square in Beijing and various celebrations were conducted all over the country. This parade was immediately followed by a civilian parade involving 100,000 participants. - Source
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North Korea - Workers' Party 65th Anniversary (October 2010, Pyongyang)



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Germany - Nuremberg

On 30 August 1933 Hitler declared Nuremberg to the "City of the Reichsparteitage (Reich Party Congresses)". [2] The Party Congresses (Reichsparteitage) were a self-portrayal of the NS-state and had no programmatic task. The unity of the nation was to be demonstrated. In a propagandistic way a relation was to be drawn between the NS movement and the glory of the medieval emperors and the meetings of the Imperial States which were held in Nuremberg.
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I feel like the pictures don't really do it justice and that videos like this one really show off how epic such a parade can be.
 
Wow, the female soldiers are pretty.
I wonder what they do to you in China or Korea if you stumble and mess it up?
 
B_Rik_Schitthaus said:
Ctrl F 'Nuremberg'
WTF
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I believe they are an incredibly dumb spectacle and a waste of time and money just to show off. A very outdated thing.

My mother loves them, though. She cries everytime she watches one. Tears of deep emotion.
 
They are pretty cool. We have ANZAC day every year in Aus to honour our vets. The ones in China, Korea etc seem like a huge waste of money to show off.

Be cool if America did it for their Veterans every year, they always show a bunch of American vets who come over to Australia for ANZAC day because there isnt anything comparable in the US.
 
Banzaiaap said:
Sorry dude, I don't know of all the parades in the world. Also, I happen to just didn't think of that one, will add to the OP

Agreed, I need to find some pictures to add to the OP
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It was just a joke to show what these rallies mean to those who stage them.
 
Watching Best korea military parades makes me feel sad. How much was taken away from the common person, so this bs pomp and circumstance take place?

And then the other part of me knows there are Koreans who are thinking the same thing I am, "Sheeeeeit. We just bought a whole bunch of f-15K's. DPRK air defenses ain't shit, let's get them while they are all goose stepping around like idiots."

Then I get more depressed that I think that about people who are essentially kin.
 
There's something oddly weird, but..uhummm..cool about Nazi Germany and their attention to detail

Their military parades, medals, uniform, architecture. I can't like, I do like it

WTFFFFFFFF
 
Mecha_Infantry said:
There's something oddly weird, but..uhummm..cool about Nazi Germany and their attention to detail

Their military parades, medals, uniform, architecture. I can't like, I do like it

WTFFFFFFFF
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My friend was mentioning this, about how cool the uniforms looked, and how they ruined it for everyone.

Suprised no one posted the beginning of KZ3.
 
Mecha_Infantry said:
There's something oddly weird, but..uhummm..cool about Nazi Germany and their attention to detail

Their military parades, medals, uniform, architecture. I can't like, I do like it

WTFFFFFFFF
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Totalitarianism and propaganda usually go together. That's the point, you're meant to be amazed.
 
ChiTownBuffalo said:
Watching Best korea military parades makes me feel sad. How much was taken away from the common person, so this bs pomp and circumstance take place?

And then the other part of me knows there are Koreans who are thinking the same thing I am, "Sheeeeeit. We just bought a whole bunch of f-15K's. DPRK air defenses ain't shit, let's get them while they are all goose stepping around like idiots."

Then I get more depressed that I think that about people who are essentially kin.
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Yeah, sad situation for sure.

Mecha_Infantry said:
There's something oddly weird, but..uhummm..cool about Nazi Germany and their attention to detail

Their military parades, medals, uniform, architecture. I can't like, I do like it

WTFFFFFFFF
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Hugo Boss and Albert Speer knew what they were doing.
Though he claimed in a 1934/1935 advertising he had been a “supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924”, such supplies are probable since 1928/1929 and certain since 1934, when he became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung, Schutzstaffel, Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps and other party organizations.[10] To meet demand in later years of the war, Boss used about 30 to 40 prisoners of war and about 150 forced laborers, from the Baltic States, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the former Soviet Union.[10] According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were “avowed nazis”, “the Boss were all great admirers of Adolf Hitler” and Hugo Boss had in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler taken in the latter's Obersalzberg retreat.
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When Troost died on January 21, 1934, Speer effectively replaced him as the Party's chief architect. Hitler appointed Speer as head of the Chief Office for Construction, which placed him nominally on Hess's staff.[34]

One of Speer's first commissions after Troost's death was the Zeppelinfeld stadium—the Nürnberg parade grounds seen in Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda masterpiece Triumph of the Will. This huge work was capable of holding 340,000 people.[35] The tribune was influenced by the Pergamon Altar in Anatolia, but was magnified to an enormous scale.[36] Speer insisted that as many events as possible be held at night, both to give greater prominence to his lighting effects and to hide the individual Nazis, many of whom were overweight.[37] Speer surrounded the site with 130 anti-aircraft searchlights. This created the effect of a "cathedral of light" or, as it was called by British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson, a "cathedral of ice".[38] Speer described this as his most beautiful work, and as the only one that stood the test of time.
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Computer said:
Totalitarianism and propaganda usually go together. That's the point, you're meant to be amazed.
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I think this is why we don't see more military parades. I think it terrifies some people and brings to mind the massive displays in Nazi-Germany.
 
Enosh said:
I love women in military uniforms

do they have a selections for who gets into this parade, beacose those are all rather good looking?
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Someone please post Gaddafi's bodyguards and girls from the army of Israel.
 
Computer said:
Someone please post Gaddafi's bodyguards and girls from the army of Israel.
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gaddafi's are selected for hotness and Israel has mandatory service, so I'd guess most of those "hot Israely military girl" pictures are from girls serving their mandatory time not full time soldiers

again, I guess
 
J. M. Romeo said:
I believe they are an incredibly dumb spectacle and a waste of time and money just to show off. A very outdated thing.

My mother loves them, though. She cries everytime she watches one. Tears of deep emotion.
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I agree, I find them a bit frightening as they are evident in very nationalistic countries. We greeks have our yearly parades and it makes me disgusted.
 
storafötter said:
I agree, I find them a bit frightening as they are evident in very nationalistic countries. We greeks have our yearly parades and it makes me disgusted.
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"OMG there are people walking in step with one another! I am both scared and disgusted!!!"
Delicate, aren't we? I can't imagine more hyperbole being written about a freakin' parade than what you wrote.
 
WanderingWind said:
"OMG there are people walking in step with one another! I am both scared and disgusted!!!"
Delicate, aren't we? I can't imagine more hyperbole being written about a freakin' parade than what you wrote.
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These types of parades (at least the examples show for places like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Best Korea, etc.) are about showing off military might and becoming part of the hive-mind versus being an individual.

It really isn't hard to understand why some people could fee bothered by seeing them.
 
shidoshi said:
These types of parades (at least the examples show for places like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Best Korea, etc.) are about showing off military might and becoming part of the hive-mind versus being an individual.

It really isn't hard to understand why some people could fee bothered by seeing them.
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Showing military marches, even in sort of democratic countries such as France, allows for the military to get in touch with the people it's supposed to protect. That way the army becomes less isolated and there is less risk of them seizing power (as we've seen in some unstable Middle-eastern countries), also it acts as a diplomatic asset. You have to show your tanks and planes and troops to the rest of the world, for diplomatic power is backed by the military (hence Japan being known as a 'diplomatic dwarf'). Also, it helps selling your own guns to foreign countries.
 
shidoshi said:
These types of parades (at least the examples show for places like Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Best Korea, etc.) are about showing off military might and becoming part of the hive-mind versus being an individual.

It really isn't hard to understand why some people could fee bothered by seeing them.
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Even accepting your premise entirely (no doubt this is the case often) there is a massive gulf between being bothered by something and being "frightened" and "disgusted." One is a reasonable reaction, the other is utterly silly.
 
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