Defend Your Fatherland!

The 23rd of February in Russia is a Day of the Defender of the Fatherland. In the Soviet times it was called the Soviet Army and Navy Day and it was a minor holiday (not even a day off) celebrated only by the military. Only men who served in the Army (or Navy) got congratulations postcards. In the times of “capitalism” not only the name of the holiday was changed but a couple of years ago it became a day off. But the most important change with the holiday was made by new Russian capitalists. They thought, “Hey, we have that All Women’s Day on the 8th of March when our sales of perfume, flowers, mink coats and gold rise ten times but there's no holiday for men! We are loosing zillions of rubles!” Forget about all those militaristic things. Aren’t all Russian men defenders of the Fatherland? Including kids or guys who never in their life had anything to do with the military. All male spices deserve a gift or two once a year. Something similar happened in the US with the Fathers’ Day, as far as I know.

Probably this disregard to the original idea of the 23rd of February made designers of this holiday billboared careless and sloppy. Posters was produced by Moscow government but Muscovites saw only 50 of them and for one day only. Then the billboards were hastily dismantled. The problem was the picture of the ship. She has nothing to do with the Russian Navy. Actually it’s USS Missouri (BB-63).

That’s what Wikipedia says about this cruiser:

During World War II, Missouri saw action at the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa, and shelled the Japanese home islands of Hokkaido and Honsh?. In the 1950s, Missouri fought in the Korean War and was decommissioned into the United
States Navy reserve fleets. She was recommissioned in the 1980s, and refitted with modern armaments. In 1991, she participated in the Gulf War.
Missouri was decommissioned a final time on 31 March 1992, having received a total of eleven battle stars, and is presently a museum ship at Pearl Harbor.

Talking about the aircraft on the poster. It’s produced in Russia, no problem, but Su-30МКI is an export model! It’s not adopted by the Russian AF. Almost all of these aircrafts were sold to India.

So what do we see at the end? An Indian fighter attacking Pearl Harbor?

Via gazeta.ru

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