Thanks for the perspective; yes, it was a joke, but one that may have required too much knowledge of "likely adversaries"*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defend

Thanks for the perspective; yes, it was a joke, but one that may have required too much knowledge of "likely adversaries"*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_of_the_Fatherland_Day#:~:text=unofficially%2c%20nationally%20it,as%20%22Men's%20Day%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defender_of_the_Fatherland_Day... * combined with jeans, this could also be a meta-joke: — Lt. Rzhevsky! Why not in uniform? And even wearing jeans; national costume of most likely adversary! — Col. Isaev, Sir! Jeans here: most likely war trophy. Judging from the first few seconds of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzuNHm4lng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzuNHm4lng , in the 1990s motorcycle brands in the east were mostly slavic: Minsk, Voskhod, Planeta, etc. but clothing brands were mostly western: NBA, Adidas, Nike, etc.