Russia's Victory Day Parade: Putin watches single tank drive down Red Square

Vladimir Putin watched a single World War Two tank roll through Moscow as part of a scaled back Victory Day parade in which he claimed war had been unleased on Russia.

The T-34, an 83-year-old relic, has traditionally opened the annual display of military might because of its symbolic role in helping Russia overcome Nazi Germany.

However, the Soviet-era tank is normally accompanied by more modern fighting machines in a full display of Moscow’s military might.

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[PeterMasalski]

I am more afraid of a tank who has done 1000 parades than 1000 tanks that have done 1 parade.
- Bruce Lee on tanks

[cyruslupercal]

Putin: "I want a parade in Kyiv!"
Generals: "But we have parade at home."
*The parade at home*

[CSDM]

Man Russia must be so powerful. Look at the amount of tanks they got!

[brittcrona]

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. The lone t-34 tank and cadets are a real second world army parade 😂

[PeterSedesse]

Last year they had T-14s, Terminators, hypersonic missiles and 3000 troops. Now they have 1 museum tank, police and cadets.

[xRlly]

0:43 Putin looks like Kim Jong Un with his generals.

[markygetstarky]

Never laughed so hard before. I saw a ton of Russians in the comments of my country's military parade laughing at it. One of them said to look at Russia's parade instead, here we are. 😂😂

[HotPinkMist]

Organizing the Special Parade Operation is really a tankless job...

[vasilileung]

This is the second most powerful military in Ukraine

[hiddencloudninja]

Russia's new state-of-the-art tank on its way to the front line

[Cinnamorxll]

Russia has one of the best military marches ngl

[gw]

Watching anything coming out of Russia is like looking into a parallel dimension.

[letsgo]

Moral of the story " Don't send am army built for parades into actual combat"

[cheesyfromindonesia]

"World domination" says Putin yeah good luck with those T-34's

[Neko_Medic]

Long gone are the days when anyone had something resembling respect for the russian military.

[TheBlueJimmy]

“Conceal their losses” one tank in the parade does not conceal their losses it puts them of full display…

[prashantkashyap]

Nobody can troll Russia better than Russia....

[sxucqdj]

Чем больше они язват - тем всё правильно мы делаем. Больше ненависти прозападные рабы, нам приносит это наслаждение.

[colombadellapace]

I can imagine the Pentagon seeing this and saying: guys...maybe we overstimated them way too much.

[connoroleary]

To inject a bit of realism, the tank should have been pulled by a Ukrainian Tractor.