Cruisin’ with the People’s Liberation Army Navy
by tdaxp ~ May 29th, 2006
The Soviet Aircraft Carrier Kiev, first of the Kiev Class and former mistress of the Black Sea Fleet, is now an amusement park in Tianjin.
Let the cruise begin!
The Kiev in the not-so-far distance. The choking, lethal haze of Tianjin gives the illusion of distance to everything.
Part of the amusement-park/museum was a “war is bad” exhibit, which nevertheless contained examples of heroism, including…
… American exploits in the Second World War.
The Map room showed the continent of Africa and her lesser-known twin continent, Africa 2.
A portion of a world map, with Greenland mysteriously unlabeled.
The Kiev in more fearsome days
English translations were mostly good, some with errors…
… that were occasionally fixed.
The deck of the helicarrier.
“Happy Everyday” wishes the sign, as one gazes up the hellish ruins of what was once a coast.
Can you see Tianjin? Of course not. Even though you are in Tianjin.
The broken beech, closer-up.
“Happy Everyday” and a murdered ocean.
A fearsome ship threatens to spread…
… Nestle chocolate ice-cream and Coca-Cola throughout the world. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
A once formidable ship…
… gazes blindly into the absent sky.
I was too hard on Al Gore. Because of Global Warming, the Pacific Ocean now extents to Tiananmen Square. Sorry, Al.
Tianjin, a tdaxp series.
- Tianjiin: A Pictorial Travelogue
- Chinese Fast Food
- Cruisin’ with the People’s Liberation Army Navy
- Heavenly Ford: City of Beauty
- Historic Tianjin
- SkyFord: City of Pollution
Pathogenic load reduces...
February 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am
[...] that China purchased several air-craft carriers from Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union (I even visisted one, and took pictures). Did China never get around to buying an anti-submarine missle to reverse engineer the technology? [...]