Thursday, April 16, 2015

Russian bikers plan 'victory drive' back to Berlin

Today is the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the final stage of the battle of Berlin.

Allied armies stayed 100 kilometres west of the city to allow the Soviet Army attack. Twenty armies, 2,500,000 soldiers, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft were used in the attack.

A Russian rock band are planning to drive motorbikes from Moscow to Berlin, arriving in the German capital on May 9. The event is to recall the Soviet victory in Berlin on May 9, 1945.

The Polish authorities see the motorbike drive as a provocation and it is being rumoured that the Germans will not grant the band visas to enter Germany.

1 comment:

Andreas said...

The German music band "Pankepiraten" are surounding the crimean peninsula with the bicycle. They created a song to advertise their trip to people who want to join them and it goes like this: "...the Krim is enslaved by occupants? Lets go there, lets have a look ourselves, because you cant trust the media anymore..."

https://youtu.be/5AZDGUt2bwk

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