In the cold light of day...

Tory politicians?

Daiy Mail editors?

 

ding

CCCP

 

In the early 80s I was working in Munich and you could visit beer halls
selling SS memorabilia and all the old SS marching songs were sung. I'm
told it hasn't changes much.

 

Verdigris says...

The allied re-enactment societies needed opposition for some mocked
battles, so someone had the bright idea of forming an Axis forces re-
enactment society. Unfortunately it appeared to attract the wrong type
of person, and more than one society has been known to have known
members of organisations such as Combat 18 amongst them.

From what Kev the Fascist says they have a surprising amount of genuine
kit, like 3 or 4 half-tracked troop carriers, m/bike sidecar combos,
huge numbers of replica weapons and more than their fair share of
'decommissioned' genuine firearms too. Genuine SS uniforms seem to be
the things they have trouble finding nowadays. Naturally, at the end of
WW2 no-one wanted to be seen in SS kit, so a lot of it got burnt and
normal Wehrmacht kit was worn.

 

Emotional aspects aside, I've always thought the SS uniform was a striking
uniform in term of colour and design.

Not practical (except maybe at night), but it just looks 'powerful' to me -
Is one allowed to say that these days?

 

dwb says...

It was designed to look powerful and menacing. I think even post-war
German uniforms have that effect.

 

It was. It was extraordinarily effective. And at least one historian has
called the use of white gloves on ceremonial occasions "an inspired
touch".

 

I've know a few people into various re-enactment stuff, from Vikings upto
English Civil War. Oh! and a couple who did American Civil War as well.
It's never really appealed to me but I guess I can understand their
interest in it. But WWII is still too recent, and the bad guys were so
bad that it has too many bad memories.

The earlier re-enactment stuff is a lot more physical, too: getting out
there and hitting people with large (mostly) blunt objects, rather than
shooting at one another.

 

I didn't mean "USSR" markings, I meant the markings of the USSR, (which
probably didn't include CCCP).

 

As bad as that?!

 

Maybe 10-20 years ago but not anymore it's all H&S now, more like a
pantomime than a battle.

 

Perhaps UKRM could form a Mods & Rockers re-enactment society where we
all take it in turns to kick the living shit out of DP?

 

Simon Atkinson wrote

Don't know much do you? Us mods were the fucking hard ones mate. Kin
had to be when you were outnumbered 5 to 1 and still 200 hundred yards
from the nearest bunch of parkas.

 

Oi, I saw that ya ****.
You'll never take me alive (cue maniacal laughter)

<fx:turns and trips>

****
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"steve auvache" said to Simon Atkinson wrote

*heh* Im too young to know

*Still!* Someone must want it, I would if i had the cash
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Donegal Paul

What on earth made you think that was going to be an option?

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

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"Nigel Eaton" said to Donegal Paul

Because i refuse to believe there is ever a situation where you have at
least a couple of options, even if they're extreme there's always a choice

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Donegal Paul - On the mend
Maico Letta 247cc - Needs work!
Bajaj Chetak 125 - Wannabe Vespa
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - intact
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk

 

Doesn't matter how hard you are, there's always someone harder waiting
round the corner.

 

Die fighting or just await the inevitable?

 

See? Told you there was always an option
--
Donegal Paul - On the mend
Maico Letta 247cc - Needs work!
Bajaj Chetak 125 - Wannabe Vespa
Lambretta Li186 - crashed and bashed
Vespa T5 Millenium - intact
www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk