The Red Army marches again – and I fear for all our futures, says Peter Hitchens
By
PETER HITCHENS
Last updated at 22:48pm on 10th May 2008
You do not really know what arrogance is until you have seen tanks come snarling down your street. The sight does something to the heart and the mind that nothing else has the power to do.
I know this because tanks did come down my Moscow street with evil intent one bright August morning in 1991, the spearhead of a KGB putsch that nobody then knew would fail.
We - my Russian neighbours and I - stood unspeaking in helpless knots at the side of the road as the monsters, barrels slanting romantically in the sun, tore up the road surface.....
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=565421&in_page_id=1811
