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    parade photograph dedicated to Torsten

    In the same German reading exercise I have referred to in another thread, I have come across this photograph apparently taken from a Japanese (Thank you for the correction, Stebalin) book on the Kalashnikov. It shows the aftermath of a big parade, probably the 7th of October.



    The chap on the left is wearing yellow shoulder boards, but I think the one on the right is Artillery red
    Now I would say that the helmets are metal ones and that the boots are the ordinary rubber soles ones, which would be consistent with the 1989 parade. Are these people you knew, Torsten?
    Last edited by iannima; 06-21-2009, 01:06 AM.
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    Nice photo!

    Actually, it´s taken from a japanese magazine. It says "License and Copy Variation" And a list of countries that have their own versions of the AK produced under license.

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      The chap on the left is wearing yellow shoulder boards, but I think the one on the right is Artillery red
      Ohhh the rivalry i hear they had

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        Hi Matteo,

        I think I have seen that photo before and I think it is from 1988 parade. Sure looks like red and yellow shoulder boards, but I would think that they are probably both yellow .... can't see how the two would have mixed like that as we still remained within our own marching blocks after the parade and when the little children came with flowers and a little cert, etc.

        The boots were special parade boots that were handed out to us a month or so before the event for use during the training and then they had to be handed back in again. They were hobnailed boots. As far as I know, those boots only came out of storage for the parade.

        Certainly, the helmets that we wore during the parade were our very own ordinary steel helmets. The got re-sprayed to look nice and new the week before the parade and while we were already in Berlin for final training.

        Below is a pic that is guaranteed from the 1989 parade and that you may possibly have seen before somewhere ... Cheers, Torsten.
        Attached Files

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          That isn't a western car that man is standing in is it? ...and btw, who IS that 'man' in the car. DDR head of state or something?(which if I remember correctly in 1989 was Erich Hoenhecker?(sp?))

          -Ian

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            Of course it isn't a Western decadent imperialist car!
            That man who is duly paying his respects to our dear Torsten ...
            (that photograph has not seen for at least six months... possibly more... I was starting to have withdrawl symptoms )...
            went by the name of Armeegeneral Heinz Kessler and was at the time the Minister for National Defence...

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              oh yea, Kessler. I recognize that name... was he the LAST east german minister of defense? Or was there another squeezed in before the reunification? Also another question regarding last days of the DDR- I can't remember the last Head of states' name...you know, the first and only man to be elected in an East German open election in 1990? And what 'party' was he? I do remember that he was elected simply because he was 'pro-unification'...but thats about all I remember.

              -Ian

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                Pastor Rainer Eppelmann later became the Minister for Defence and Disarmament. (but before him there was briefly Admiral Hoffman)
                I think you mean Lothar de Mazière who I think was Christian Democrat

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