That's what I thought.
This one would make for a good contest: come up with the best story to explain why three Germans are climbing on a KV-1..........naked LOL
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The Soviet tank had been retreating until it got blocked and bogged close to a lake or river.
A few days later German soldiers while bathing in this lake/river discovered that there is a soviet tank.
One soldier has photo camera and thinks this will be a funny picture and people will even wonder 78 years later...
Who would have thought that the engine compartment on these things can double as a hot tub ...
British Matilda provided to Russia and converted with a 76mm gun. Amazing what you can find on Pinterest......
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The T-34 tank driver Mikhail Smirnov after a victorious battle with german forces near the village of Lomonosov Gostilitsy, Jan. 17 1944. Smirnov was killed in action six months later in the battle for the city of Dvinsk, today known as Daugavspils, Latvia.
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J. Stalin inspects a new SU-152, 1943.
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3 things pop at me in this picture:J. Stalin inspects a new SU-152, 1943.
1. The look on Stalin's face like "glad I'm not the one having to go into this metal coffin"
2. the crude-looking, gigantic welding seams between the armor plates
3. the comparison between the new 152mm beast-cannon and the old-fashioned napoleon-era cannons on the building behind.
Someone, hint, hint, made a mighty fine menu screen mod for RT using a colorized version of this photo. For some reason it's not in the mod warehouse so if you want it you can grab it here:The T-34 tank driver Mikhail Smirnov after a victorious battle with german forces near the village of Lomonosov Gostilitsy, Jan. 17 1944. Smirnov was killed in action six months later in the battle for the city of Dvinsk, today known as Daugavspils, Latvia.
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IS-2 at a post-war victory parade, don't know what year.
What a monster!
A beauty and a beast.
Soviet ISU-122s in what looks like probably Berlin.
A T-34-85M2 tank at the "Rubin-87" exercises held near Warsaw. The T-34-85M2 used T-54/55 style road wheels, improved transmission, new radio and intercom, a snorkel and deep wading gear, and a remotely aimed and fired hull machine gun operated by the commander. Posted by Tank Archives on FB, I highly recommend his Twitter feed.
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SU-76 riding past a destroyed German Flak 37 during the liberation of Chernivtsi (then of Romania), March 1944.
Russian tank riders jumping off a T-34/85. I wonder what the life expectancy was for the men who went into battle this way.
ISU-122S. This SPG had a 122 mm D-25S gun with a semiautomatic sliding breech, which tripled the rate of fire.
IS-2 tanks. The third one appears to be shot up and possibly burned out.
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It also seems that the tree next to it has unsuccessfully tried to stop an AP round. I guess trees in real life are not as unstoppable as in CM...