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 Posted: 15-Sep-2008 14:53 Post subject: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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Since jymset dragged me kicking and screaming back to this place, I thought it would be funny for me to share with you crowd my fun pics of my two month holiday through all the Russias with you and show you my ugly silly face and the beautiful face of my girlfriend Irina.
So I post here a link to my weblog, if you scroll past the first few silly photos and go to the entry for Tuesday, August 26, 2008 you can read the funny story about my time travel holiday and look at the pics, I hope you can get a cheap laugh!
Cheers, Dario.
www.xanga.com/Capitan_Contreras
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jymset
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| Posted: 15-Sep-2008 14:56 Post subject: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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 I love all the places that you're going to/have been to!
Rock on, friend.
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Vampire
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| Posted: 17-Sep-2008 16:32 Post subject: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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No comments? Come on, i am not THAT ugly! 
I expected some more curiosity...maybe i am the only one of the Mordellian Old Guard left? 
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Vagabond
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| Posted: 18-Sep-2008 00:08 Post subject: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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i'm not an old guard but i remember arguing with you way back when.
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| Posted: 18-Sep-2008 21:48 Post subject: Re: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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| Vampire wrote: | | No comments? Come on, i am not THAT ugly! |
Ummm... yes you are.
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| Posted: 18-Sep-2008 22:19 Post subject: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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I'm not of the old guard either, but I didn't comment cause I've been MIA.
Looks like you had lots of fun, and yes, she's pretty you compliment fisher.
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 14:35 Post subject: Vampire unmasked: my time travel holiday |
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Holy Cow!!
The Undead returns!!!
Nice pics...
I have a couple of pieces of armor like those... Except My chainmail has designs in Copper and Stainless woven in. My Gauntlets are not fingered, they are Mitten style...
You got some good looking horns the Vamp... Just had them sharpened???
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 16:56 Post subject: Vampire goes to the Great Patriotic War |
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Well, I can't share my pics of my last weekend at Sevastopol by posting on the blog , so I will just post them, with commentary
No story this time , I had thought about writting something about time travels and another Evil Dastardly Nazi Plot to Conquer the World(TM) involving development prewar by the III Reich of an atomic bomb to be fired by the monster 800 cm caliber canon Dora at Sevastopol (and later on Leningrad or the Allied invasion armada) and a commando raid to stop it, but it sounds more fun summing it up than in detail, so I will just post pictures.
My girlfriend Irina, after being dragged to so many military museums last year took a liking to it, and she joined a reconstruction (reenactment) club in her university last spring, when I came to Sevastopol this year, I could take advantage of her contacts to dress up. Unfortunately Irina was sick that day and in no mood to dress up, but there are a couple pictures of her from may. If you think she looks cute holding that rifle, I remind you she learned how to strip and assemble a Kalashnikov at high school :p
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 16:58 Post subject: Enlist in the Red Fleet |
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Donald Duck hat: 7 euros
Stripped sailor shirt: 5 euros
The chance once in a lifetime to dress up and play soldiers: Priceless
Sot I joined the marines, even if they are soviet ones, though to be precise the naval infantry were actually squids on land (a squad of squids, like how that sounds) :p
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 16:59 Post subject: Some stuff on the Naval Infantry |
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Strips are fashionable!
"The brave traditions of the Naval Infantry go back to the Civil war of 1918-22. Sailors of the Imperial Russian Fleet had been very supportive of the Bolsheviks and they took an active role in the October Revolution 1917. In the spring 1918 the Imperial Fleet was disorganized, fell under disrepair. The Civil war had begun and thousands of sailors went ashore under the Red banner. As infantrymen they were shock troops of the Revolution, but many of them fought very well as crews of armor trains, which were used by hundreds.... In 1941, due to the critical situation on the Front, loss of many bases and ships of the Red Navy, units of the Naval Infantry were formed again. The idea of using seamen as infantry was an act of desperation. The Red Navy did not like it, it takes so much time to train a good sailor, neither the Army liked it. New-formed units were practically useless as infantry. Cocky, ill-disciplined, without any knowledge of infantry tactic, they did not like digging!,they had thought that bravery was enough. A naval infantryman looked at his fellow regular infantryman as a subhuman. Making thing worst, the Army had insisted of changing their black uniform, a very good target!, to the green infantry, plus the Army had assigned platoons/companies and up commanders, leaving only commissars-officers from the Navy. They refused to obey! Finally naval infantrymen were allowed to use the traditional blue-and-white underwear with uniform and every man had his famous "beskozirka", a flat navy cap. In an attack, he would put it on instead of steel helmet. Keep in mind that a good-looking black uniform was for propaganda pictures and movies. At most. For the beginning they used "banzai" tactic and the result was tremendous losses. ... But the Germans were good teachers. Soon the Naval Infantry would prove that they were good in defence as in offense. The heroic defense of Sevastopol had proved it well. As in the time of the Civil war many seamen had formed crews of armored trains, artillery crews of naval guns.
.. naval infantry had brought the Navy traditionals on land. For instants, they would call a floor as a"deck", a window as a "porthole" and etc. After a lunch they would sleep an hour, so called "Admiral's hour", a great Russian Navy tradition, which I had liked very much indeed. In contrary, the regular infantry had never had such privilege. In Russian language a soldier, when on guard, calls it "duty", but a seaman calls it "watch". Do not use a famous battle cry "Ura-ha", instead use "Polundra!" which roughly means "Watch out below." And remember one more thing- the Soviet Naval Infantry did not take prisoners. The Germans called them the "Black Death" due to the color of their uniforms and their fierceness"
IGOR DOBROVATOV, a former Navigator, a former officer-in-reserve of the Red Navy.
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 17:00 Post subject: Some stuff on the Naval Infantry |
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I expected to be handed a Mosin rifle, so I was honored when they gave me a PPS 43, also known as Sudaev, a weapon of desperation designed and built in the factories of besieged Leningrad. I like better the traditional PPSh 41 (Shpagin) with the wooden stock and the drum magazine, but this weapon is exotic and I found myself liking it. It's not so beautiful as the MP40 or the PPSh, but is certainly cool and better looking than horrors like the Sten or the "grease gun".
It was comfortable to handle, though like any weapon with a long magazine is uncomfortable to use when prone. Only flaw is that you have to be careful not to touch the underside of the barrel as it gets hot when firing, so have to grab it at the point of junction of the magazine. Simple, robust, compact, light, my weapon had wartime markings, wonder if it was used to kill somebody?
Shooting
Reloading
Stupid thing jammed
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 17:02 Post subject: |
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I also got the opportunity to handle a Mosin-Nagant and take some pics with it
"Death flees the bayonet of the brave" - Suvorov
..but a sharpened spade makes a much more satisfying sound when splitting the skull of an enemy! Polundra!
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 17:03 Post subject: |
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The club has 40 members, but for this weekend only a few were available,in this group photo you can see the variations in uniform for the Naval Infantry.
Aside from the emergency naval brigades of seamen to fight on land dressed in navy uniforms, later in the war rifle divisions were raised and equipped and were identical to the Red Army divisions except for the telnyashka (t-shirt) and maybe the belt buckle.
This rear photo shows some detail of the equipment. Equipment was very spartan, reflecting the dire straits of the first two years of war. The big green shoulder bag is the gasmask container, it was a box respirator so it has a waist strap to keep it in place. No webbing was issued, all items were suspended from the belt. The pouches for magazines, grenades, clips, field dressings were improvised by the seamen from sack cloth. The jackboots for marching were issued for service on land as infantry, on ships or coast artillery ankle boots were worn. Anything else was tucked into the belt or boots (I wear a knife in one boot and a spoon in the other). No bayonet scabbard was issued since it was assumed it would be left fixed in the rifle. I found the ammo pouches so difficult to open when prone that I resorted to tuck one magazine in the belt and another into the boot, so I could retrieve them easier and reload faster.
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 17:05 Post subject: |
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And to finish this masquerade, a fitting picture :p
Nyet tovarich Romani, maskirovka* doesn't mean to put on the gas mask
*(deception, concealment)
And a studio portrait, vanitas, vanitatis et omnia vanitas 
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| Posted: 19-Sep-2008 17:06 Post subject: |
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Playing soldiers is great fun, but it should be done with respect, so here are pictures of the war memorial to the heroic defenders of Sevastopol, the concrete sculptures in the old obelisk, and the colossal new sculpture erected last year. For some reason of all the war monuments I have been to, this one was the most beautiful, though the one at Kerch comes a close second in impressiveness.
Forever in our memory
Glory to Sevastopol
and here is a pic from February with me, so you can get an idea of the size
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