Daily Archives: May 1, 2011

Machine army shown by Reds


"The World At War: Barbarossa (June – December 1941)" (May Day in Moscow @ 7:48)

(Thursday, May 1, 1941) — Masses of truck-borne infantry and new motorized artillery were star attractions today at Soviet Russia’s traditional May Day parade in Red Square today; and Defence Commissar S. K. Timoshenko told spectators that the Red Army was mobilized against “accidents” and “the tricks of our foreign enemies.”