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Rogozin: Russia's Kids Should Play With Russian-Made Toy Guns and Tanks

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

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February 02, 2012

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has expressed a wish to see the country's children play with toy guns and tanks made in Russia rather than the West.

In a message issued on Twitter, the former NATO ambassador said he had "given a command" for manufacturers to create toy versions of Russian weapons and military equipment.

Rogozin, who currently oversees Russia's defense industry, said the country's children "have played with Leopards enough," referring to Cold War-era German-made tanks.

Rogozin's tweet came as the deputy premier was attending a conference in the White Sea port city of Severodvinsk on the future of the Russian navy.

Compiled from agency reports

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by: Vakhtang from: Moscow

February 03, 2012 03:41

Looking at the face of Rogozin begin to understand who Putin needs in his team.
If this hell-raisers lived during the Great Patriotic War, he undoubtedly would have worked as a traitor policeman on the Nazi

He would work the seller of the Russian beer (that is not the beer at all but the water is diluted with bad alcohol and dyes..) with his mug and the "clever things" about which he says...

But Putin stubbornly is pulling frostbitten head of moron Rogozin, despite the fact that only a mug of Rogozin is an insult of normal people..

Uncle Volodya!!Еnough to mock your slaves!!We all know that the president of Russia can work even matryoshka, If you close...

Rogozin's following sentence will be to ban Lego toy and replace it with barracks toy-style Gulag Archipelago...

by: John from: Canada

February 07, 2012 23:45

Dimitry should know that the biggest military-toy maker is now China - right next to Russia! While Chinese military-toy makers DO make the Leopard toy, they also make many other models - and no doubt to make sales to Russian kids, they would be able to more-profitably make T-90, T-34, or even something like the Tachanka:
http://77rus.smugmug.com/Military/Military-Technical-Museum/military-technical-museum/1125225072_SkDge-L.jpg