Portyanki?

[ZonieDiver]

Funny, I never heard anything about portyanki in my Opfor - Europe class in '79.

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/russian-military-ordered-to-switch-to-socks/?smid=fb-share

[Badger52]

LMAO, I'd almost forgot about this. Short film clips of this stuff, emphasis on the poor LT standing in hand-salute for minutes on end addressing his people, and a day in the life of conscript Bodykin Odorovich were de rigeur. Lots of laughter, popcorn & beer mitigated the fact that we had several mechanized divisions "surrounded from the inside."

Anyone that gave the Vopos an inferiority complex was ok in my book.
:D

[jkirkthomas]

I'd forgotten abgout this too, but now I remember seeing a film on it decades ago. It's easy to laugh at, along with a lot of other things that used to be the way things were done, but I like knowing about the old way of doing things. You never know when such knowledge might come in handy. I live in the mountains surrounded by forest and have a wood buring stove in my house that I can both heat and cook with. I'm not convinced this new-fangled electricity fad will last.

[ZonieDiver]

I'd forgotten abgout this too, but now I remember seeing a film on it decades ago. It's easy to laugh at, along with a lot of other things that used to be the way things were done, but I like knowing about the old way of doing things. You never know when such knowledge might come in handy. I live in the mountains surrounded by forest and have a wood buring stove in my house that I can both heat and cook with. I'm not convinced this new-fangled electricity fad will last.

I've heard that new-fangled 'lectric isn't safe!:D

If we had the rules then that we have now...we might not have electricity at all - or in abundant quantities, with huge powerlines criss-crossing the length and breadth of this great land!

Watching this, I was reminded of an old poem we hicks in S. Illinois used to say as we were growing up. It started like this...

In days of old, when knights were bold...:D

(of course, it wouldn't have been a 'sock' - but a 'portyanki'!

[medic&commo]

Talk about a trip down memory lane.
I remember seeing the video about a day-in-the-life-of a Russian recruit in Military History (ROTC) in 1973.
m&c

[Richard]

Russian edition Eddie Bauer tube socks? From the title I thought it must be about sailors abusing themselves while their boats were dockside.

Richard :munchin

[PSM]

Russian edition Eddie Bauer tube socks? From the title I thought it must be about sailors abusing themselves while their boats were dockside.

Richard :munchin

Damn! Stop it. I hate hernia surgery. The nurses are all fat. :( And I'm running out of herias...herni...herinums...whatever.

Pat