Posted on 04/17/2014 10:27:00 PM PDT by wetphoenix
They even still have Karl Marx Allee in Eastern Berlin.
Yep. Its an eyesore in an otherwise picturesque park.
During the Cold War this war memorial was one of three places the Russians had the right to post their troops, based on the outcome of the Second World War. The other two were Spandau Prison and the Berlin Air Safety Center.
Given the tank in the picture is a T-34 with a 76mm gun and the primary assault armies would be using T-34/85s i doubt they were the first tanks even though the soviets were using plenty of T-34/76s in 1945.
A lot of those Red Army soldiers were Ukrainians.
You actully posted this in reply to a comment about Estonia? A country that was forcebly held as "just another Russian province" for 50 years? You're joking right?
And that's a joke too regarding totalitarian East Germany?
Crap - went back and read my post again, saw I typed the tank model wrong. Thanks for your further info and correction on that tank. We weren’t allowed as close as the picture shows when I did the slow roll bus drive-by so I never looked, just took the word of the tour guide.
Typos happen even on the model building forums but here you cant go back and correct later.
Was at ipms club breakfast talking about new ww1 kits coming out and one guy said some soviet at teams were still carrying 14.5mm and the like at rifles in ‘45. Always learning something.
the syrians still had a couple of PZ-IVs, late models with L75/48s, on the golan heights in ‘67 war.
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