Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) 2007

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Steve Das Reich
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Post by Steve Das Reich »

I am sooo envious !!!!

Glad you all had a great time in St Petersburg, sounds like you had a ball.

Happy to see you have all returned safely home, any new girlfriends Steve, Mick ?

Neil see if you can arrange a Kursk trip with Bair, a Pan European re enactment would be our equivalant of Normandy as PD said above, what a great thing to see and be apart of.

Well done to all.
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Post by Reich Crispies »

here is the small film I made with my camera before and after the event including steve and Reich Crispies singing .
That film should have a government health warning.

My sincerest appologies to Steve Martin for ruining his song.
I cite Vodka in my defence. :oops:
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Post by steve kellher »

Jon Das Reich wrote:
steve kellher wrote:Im up for some of that :D
You would be the 1st to be sent packing to the Salt mines :lol:

glad the trip went well lads ive had the green light from the other half for next year if its on.
Never happen mate, i would get them all pissed on ruff scrumpy and leg it :twisted:
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Post by Reich Crispies »

Forgot to add, a professional film crew was hired to cover the battle. Very 'private Ryan', using hand held and steady cams. They even charged in (wearing snow suits) with the Russian attack.
A free DVD will be coming to me eventually, but will be available for sale by "Biar travel" at Detling. (I will ask Cara to put it on the clubmobile screen at Detling)

Word from Biar is that it's so good they are cutting scences into a TV film they are making!
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Post by ObGren. Conrad »

Here are the best photos i have found so far from the event.

http://north-front.ru/nikolskoe_270107.htm

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Me in the middle with the blured edge trousers.
Olsson and steve to the left ( steve in the m43 cap )

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Steve facing a lot och trouble :lol:

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Das Reich and Nordland running for cover in the trenches
(Reich Crispies in the crusher cap )


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So now we all look forward to see the dvd :)

I did watch Patriks film from the battle , but he got snow on his dv-camera before the main russian charge , so he missed all the fun with his camera
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Post by Jim »

Some fantastic pictures.
Love the last two
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Post by Muller »

i am aving some of that next year.... Pst expidetion?
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Post by Franz repper »

Just had the Finnish police at my place asking after a British reenactor
The said reenactor was running round a hotel wearing nothing bar a parka and a crusher cap shouting at the ladies look at my 88

1 lady said it looked more like a 3.7cm Pak 35/36 than a 88
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Hmmmmmmm

Wonder who that coudl be..... :roll:

What breakfast cereal did he have?

Did it go "Schnapp, Krummel und Popopopopopopop!"

Sounds like........
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Post by Reich Crispies »

Er, Guilty as charged...........

Conrad, fantastic pictures. That last one is now my desktop.

We await both Nordland's and the offical DVD!

(Getting all those files I promised together to email you. Should get it done today)
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...........But it was cold!
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Post by ObGren. Conrad »

Thanks Reich Crispies , looking forward to it.

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From the war cemetery in st:Petersburg:

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Post by Pirkka »

Back on the air! (My next new PC is going to be a Mac).

Fantastic trip, enjoyed by everybody bar one, an old-school Soviet who would probably bitch in paradise. The DR and Swedish lads were out of this world, and we in 2nd Guards couldn't have had better company.

Haven't got my own photos developed yet, but the ones posted up so far are great (on one you can almost see Steve Martin's sphincter twitch as 100+ Russians rose up out of the ground and charged! :lol: )

The organisation for next year's tour is already underway and I'm being kept up to date by Bair. I'll be taking first bookings for Operation Spark 2008 at this year's Detling, get your name in early to avoid dissapointment!

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Post by grenmartens »

Get my name down now, more sphincter twitching is required.............uh oh, :shock: I may live to regret that last comment!!
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