Posted on 09/18/2015 6:47:10 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Warsaw (AFP) - Around 5,000 Polish youths wearing military uniform and carrying Kalashnikov replicas marched through Warsaw Thursday, pledging to come to their country's aid if necessary amid concern over Russian activity in neighbouring Ukraine.
The unprecedented rally took place 76 years to the day after the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland at the start of World War II -- just weeks after Nazi Germany attacked the country from the west.
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Awesome.
These are Strzelece. It is a very old par-military organization in Poland. Kind of a cross between boy scouts and the junior national guard, except they saw service in WWI, the 1920 war with Russia and WWII. Many were killed in action. Obviously the communists banned them. But they are back. They have regular army officers as trainers. You see them at a lot of patriotic events. real nice kids.
I can imagine Russia sending troops to Eastern Europe to protect from the Muslim horde, and end up with its empire again, because NATO and American and the liberal elements of the EU said “submit”.
“With the Germans we lose our country. With the Russians we lose our souls.”
“carrying Kalashnikov replicas”
Those would appear to be Mosin-Nagants in the pictures in the thread. An effective bolt action rifle. Great for training proper marksmanship.
Yeah, looks like cut down versions. At first I thought they were those semi auto rifles that fired x54r.
Svt38/40
Words fail me.
” Mosin-Nagants’
Big 5 sports store had ‘em for $99 plus tax not too long ago.(5 years ago?) I should have bought more...
Model M38...but probably M44 Carbine...
fits in a Crossman case...
( ; )
I was at that square a few months ago.
A Polish soldier comes across a German soldier and a Russian soldier, which does he shoot first?
The German, of course, Business before pleasure.
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