Russia’s Paratroopers Day Photos: Jean Paul Gaultier’s Saucy Sailors Work The Watermelons

TODAY was Russia’s Paratroopers Day. It was the day in which the country’s current crop of elite fighters marked the 81th anniversary of their creation by marching up and down while looking tough and steely jawed – and ex-paras dressed in hot pants, and Jean Paul Gaultier’s 1990s cast offs while eating watermelon which seems to have been laced with 100% proof meths. You can debate among yourselves which group presents the more fearsome fighting force…

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Former Russian paratroopers with Airborne Forces flag celebrate Paratroopers Day in a fountain in Moscow Gorky Park, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011. Russian Paratroopers' Forces celebrate the 81st anniversary of the establishment of Russia's airborne forces (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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Posted: 2nd, August 2011 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink