Scenes From Moscow. By Uncle Monty.

Scenes From Moscow.

By Uncle Monty.

Moscow Photos

By Alex Albion.
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Last month while at Moscow to attend the

65th Anniversary of Russia’s Victory Day
Parade at Red Square with Contessa Maria, I

not only saw the bullies of the Russian police

treating the locals badly, but I also saw some

of the latest military hardware on display and

the presence of world leaders being treated

ever so nicely by the Kremlin elite.
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The Eternal Watch.

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The contrasts were so fascinating to me. As

I sat watching the awesome military parade, I

thought I would then record some of the high and

low ranking veterans of The Red Army for my

story here of scenes from Moscow, rather than

just write a travel story or about the Russian

Federation's political and social elite that I also

met with Maria. She, Maria, is now beyond reach

and contact for me while she now enjoys her world

cruise around the world until early September.

As we departed from Moscow, she headed back

to New York and immediately began her sea

voyage around the world just the next day.

Cor blimey, what a rich and lucky lady

she truly is!!
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Russian Politburo Member.

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The Victory Parade Day, 2010, marked the then

old USSR’s military victory over the Nazi attack to

take Leningrad (now called again St. Petersburg,
thankfully) in 1945. Many of the veterans from
that time are still alive and kicking quite well,
thank you very much!. It was them that I wanted

to especially record among my many different en-

counters while inside Mother Russia. Scroll down

and you'll see their pictures ... I have added a

couple of the Russian elite and powerful among

my images of the scenes from Moscow. Along

with a few images of military hardware and

pictorial scenes of the City of Moscow.
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Here then is my little selection of such veterans
and elite, plus a few images of other people or other

things that otherwise caught my roving eye while

in the Russian capital or at The Kremlin or at Red

Square. I was delighted to meet those from the

highest to the lowest social strata of today's

Russian society. Most were quite friendly, even

though we could not speak each other's language.

Yet, communicate we did for the most part.

When, however, I ordered hot chocolate to drink

I got instead a large slab of solid milk chocolate or

what appeared to be an American Hersey bar.

Otherwise, no problem of communication!

Well, sort of ...

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High Ranking Russian Vice-Marshal

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Ex-Soviet Military Veteran.

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Paraded Military Hardware.

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Missile Launcher - Costs approx. $2 million.

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Military Flyover. One of Several During Parade.

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Some of The Kremlin Elite.

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Scene Surrounding Red Square.

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There He Was Valdimir Putin, Really?

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With his outstretched hand to shake mine, I

was very surprised and tickled-pink to find the

former Russian President Valdimir Putin, and

now Prime Minister of All-Mother Russia, just

standing there to speak to me. I understood not

a word he spoke to me nor did he of me. Many

Russians were congregating around him and lin-

ing up to have their photographs taken with him

at Red Square. Then I was told in broken English

that I, too, could have a photo taken with him, if

I paid 2,000 Roubles - about 50 quid or US$70 -

for the pleasure of being with the spit and image

lookalike of Valdimir Putin. Five quid, yes! But

not 50 quid for some lookalike although at first,

like many, I thought he was actually Putin

himself doing a walkabout or something at Red

Square. He was doing a booming business, I

must say. Perhaps they also hire him as a

security decoy for the real Valdimir Putin.

Whatever, that was as close as I got my-

self to the former Russian President.
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On The Run, Homeless w/His 2 Dogz.

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Stark was the Moscow scene with the homeless
guy and his two dogs hiding in the subway and

on the run from the local police, he said in pidgin

English to me. His two dogs, however, almost

attacked me moments after I took the photo-

shot of them with him. I was very lucky not to

have been badly bitten by one or both of them.

I suspect the camera flash alarmed them so. The

light was very poor even with the subway lights

it was still quite dark to get a decent image of him

and his homeless dogs, too. I gave him a couple

of 100 Roubles for him to eat and to hopefully get

some dog food for his street dogz. He couldn't thank

me, enough! He was in urgent need of a friend

indeed no matter what he may or may not have

done, I said to myself. Ten minutes later, I saw a

rough squad of mean Moscow copz entering the

same subway and I wondered what they did to

him, if they had discovered he was the man they

were looking for. Maybe he'd already left to go buy

some food with that money I'd given him? If they

got him, I'm pretty certain they'd beat the shit

right out of him right then and there on the

spot ... and, they'd probably shoot

his dogz dead, too.
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It Looked Almost Edible,

Though She Was Not.

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Cheerz everybody, Uncle Monty.

+St. Wiliam of York, 2010.

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Russia wants to ban Cold War villains from games
While (Russian) MPs cannot stop offending games be-

ing made, some want to ban their import. The Duma is

considering setting up a commission to decide which

games ... By Saun Walker in Moscow.

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:: Also soon to go online ::

St. Peterburg: Hardly A Trace or Whisper

of The Imperial Russian Czars.

By Uncle Monty.

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