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| Calender Celebrating Red Army in WWII Includes... SS Soldiers? |
| 2010-04-25 |
| Via The Register As historical memories sadly fade... Russian officials have scrapped a calendar celebrating the Red Army's victory over Hitler in the Second World War after designers used photographs of Nazi German troops in battle instead of Soviet soldiers. Veterans reacted furiously when a poster appeared in schools in the Urals region of Perm before the 65th anniversary of the end of what Russians call the Great Patriotic War. The publishers who designed the calendar admitted that they had been unable to tell the difference between the Nazi and Soviet armies. They had downloaded images from the internet to illustrate the poster after deciding that pictures provided by a local veterans' committee were not interesting enough. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 what Russians call the Great Patriotic War. It's not called by the Russians, it damn sure was The Great Patriotic War, in the west it's merely WWII. We won and invented American Motors and Fritos. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-04-25 07:10 |