Flags, Fireworks and Designer Uniforms

You would be hard-pressed to find a more dazzling display of patriotic zeal and military might than today's Victory Day parade in Russia. Initially, I was not terribly excited by the prospect of waking up at 5 in the morning and going through hours of security checks, before standing out in the cold for another two hours to watch Russia celebrate 63 years since the victory of the Second World War. But as our bus pulled into Red Square all that changed. I looked around me at the soldiers in... Full Story