Today is the day to celebrate soldiers, veterans and just men in general. I wish we had a day like this in the US. Valentine’s day has come to mean ’spend lots of money on your girlfriend day’ (without needing to mention singles’ awareness day). There isn’t a good ‘buy stuff for your boyfriend day’ yet. Since Russia has only recently celebrated Valentine’s Day, today and March 8th (Women’s Day) have come to be roughly equivalent. In reality, This holiday celebrates the first mass draft in Moscow in 1918 during a civil war. Nowadays, the only thing to see in Vladimir are a bunch of drunk men and some flowers by the eternal flame war memorial.
Kinda makes me glad the US doesn’t have a draft. (yet)
[odd note: When I googled for large images of День защитника Отечества the results were exclusively old men playing chess]
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