Our friend Ludmila just told that the aerial part of the parade was one of the most interesting parts of the military parade. And we agree! So we found an unique video about Aircraft Parade on Red Square in Moscow 9th of May 2005. During the aerial part of the parade fighter jets flew over the area of Red Square. Acrobatic group consisted of five aircraft Su-27 called “Russian Knights” and four aircraft MiG-29 called “Strizhy”. The aircrafts left the the footprint of the three colors from Russian flag. And we will see this parade inside! That’s interesting!
Today is birthday of Alina Kabaeva! She is 25 now! You all know how we love and admire of her! With this video we wish our brilliant gymnast to have 100 brilliant years ahead!
In our previous post we mentioned a plane U-2 or PO-2. Now we found a very neat video about this airplane. This video is in Russian and I’ll try to retell you some facts from it. First of all U-2 (Uchebnyy – 2) means Training plane -2, later it was renamed later as PO-2 (from name of it’s constructor Polikarpov). First this plane was built in January, 1928. A lot of planes what was built in that years became history soon but not Po-2. It was very easy to manage and it was very easy to do any pilot figure on it. It was an excellent training plane and it forgave even bad errors to pupils! This plane was used as transport to put repellent at field as post aircraft and passenger plane also. When WWII started they modified it a little bit and it became an excellent bomber. Bomber what was invisible for radars, very good in maneuvers and very quiet – because pilots turned off engines when they were near goals. Fascists hated him because it was very difficult to get it!
The U-2 was known as the plane used by the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, composed of all-women pilots and ground crew. The unit became notorious for its daring low-altitude night raids on German rear-area positions, with veteran pilots Katya Ryabova and Nadya Popova on one occasion flying 18 such missions in a single night. The women pilots observed that the enemy suffered a further degree of demoralization simply due to their antagonists being female. As such, the pilots earned the nickname “Night Witches” (German Nachthexen, Russian Ночные Ведьмы/Nočnye Ved’my).
Now with all this information you can enjoy this video!
Hello, today we continue watching WWII soviet movies. Movie what we want to introduce you today was made in 1945. It’s name is “Небесный Тихоход” or maybe how we could translate it “Law-speed skymover”. We found a very good comment about this movie. ———————————————– Cutest war movie ever. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. The plot centers around a fighter pilot who is shot down by the Nazis and after recovery, due to not being allowed to fly at the speeds of a fighter plane, he is put in charge of a squadron made up of women all flying the U-2 (Po-2), the slowest and leas prestigious of all the planes. After bemoaning the loss of his fighter plane, he starts seeing the value in the old, slow, training bi-plane. Along with that, he meets and falls in love with a young journalist who comes over to interview him. This is a big no-no as he and his friends had a pact to not fall in love till the end of the war. Slowly, the pact is broken, first by one of the friends then by him and in the end everyone has a significant other.
Beyond the sugary sweetness of the plot, this is a good movie. It’s happy and bright and has wonderful songs. The acting is fantastic and the script very funny and at times very touching. If you like romantic comedies, watch this one, you won’t be disappointed.
If you have the time, check out the Po-2 bi-plane as it is one of the greatest planes ever built and is seriously undervalued. Oh, and the all female squadrons did in fact exist and they did fly the Po-2 (then known as the U-2) and they were feared as stealthy night bombers by the Nazis. Do check it out. ———————————————- Here we see all three friends: they decided don’t fall in love because there is the first thing in their life is aircrafts and girls could be just after ;).
In these days near The Victory Day in Russia (9th of May) we honor people who fought for our freedom and life! We honor our veterans. The TV shows a lot of old movies about World War 2 or how we call it in Russia The Great Patriotic War. So we decided to publish a series of articles with episodes of Soviet World War Two movies.
Today it will be an episode of movie “The Two Soldiers”. This movie was made in 1943, it is about two friends who defend Leningrad and became to love the same girl. This song was sung by Mark Bernes, he played one of these two friends. His image in this movie was great, he shows the brave soldier from Odessa, it was the typical image of a Soviet Marine.
Here we will listen to a very famous Soviet WWII-time song “Dark night”. This song was very popular in front line troops, it became the national hit right after its appearance.
For people who wants to know more we found an English translation of this song:
The night is dark, Only bullets are whining in the steppe, Only a wind is buzzing in wires, Stars are dimly twinkling. I know that you, my beloved girl, Do not sleep this dark night And secretly are wiping tear Near a cot. How I love The depth of your tender eyes! How I want to nestle up my lips Close to them now! The dark night Separates us, my beloved girl, And the disturbed black steppe Lies between us.
I believe in your, my dear she-friend. This belief protected me From a bullet in a dark night. I am gaily I am quiet in a mortal combat I know you to meet me in love Whatever had happened. I’m not frightened with a death We’ve already met with it in a steppe many times And even now It is whirling over me. You are waiting for me And do not sleep near cot So therefore I know Nothing bad can happen with me.
You are waiting for me And do not sleep near cot So therefore I know Nothing bad can happen with me.
Hello, we waited for this video whole day today! Russia Today just published this video and we are happy to show for you a full version of Military Parade on Red Square, 2008! Watch it! It’s really interesting and unique!
Hello! 7th of May is a birthday of a great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky! (Thank Seesaw for reminding us this date!) We want to celebrate this date by watching an old Soviet musical cartoon “The Nutcracker”. Of course, music of this cartoon is music from ballet “The Nutcracker” by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Enjoy by yourself, enjoy with kids – it worth it! :)))
Hello, the main news in Russia is Inauguration of new Russian President – Dmitry Medvedev. We already published a full version of Inauguration ceremony in our main blog. Here we publish a few important episodes:
That is just clowns… but why I have such sweet and sad feeling in my chest when I watch this video? May be a name of this feeling is nostalgia… Nostalgia? Nostalgia about things what never happened and never will happen in your life? Have a good viewing! 🙂
