“Moscow Lies Behind” — Russia’s Largest Wargame
More than 3000 people came to see the Red Army beat Wehrmacht at an annual WW II reconstruction event called “Moscow Lies Behind. 1941â€.
The war games are traditionally organized by the Borodino State Military History Museum. Borodino village is near the famous battlefield where Russians fought Napoleon’s army on August 26, 1812. However, the museum also keeps the memory of the World War Two.
More than 500 people acted in the two-day mock battle that featured airplanes, tanks, authentic WW II artillery and lots of pyrotechnics. The action repeated a fight near Moscow, hence the title, with one small inaccuracy: in the actual battle of October 1942 the Soviet Army lost and German soldiers marched on towards Moscow.
Preparation for the battle took a long time and involved museum workers and numerous WW II war game reconstruction clubs fans from all over the country.
Soldiers’ uniforms — on both the Soviet and the German sides — matched the authentic WW II outfits to the finest detail. The coats, the buttons, the boots, the watches and even cigarette lighters are all either authentic, found on the battlefields years after the war was over, or carefully reconstructed from authentic materials by devoted reconstruction clubs fans.
In a years’ time the Borodino battlefield is going to see the Soviet Army triumphantly beat the Nazis once more.
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October 20, 2006
