Russian light armour + vehicles

Lieutenant (Czechoslovak) Richard Tesarik (1915/1967) aboard of T-34/76 "LIDICE" tank. Tesarik one of three nonsoviet holder of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded after battle of Kyiv in 1943.

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The T-34 "Lidice" was named in honour of victims of Lidice Massacre (June 1942) and was extensively used in combat, where it was knocked out multiple times, but each time was repaired and returned to service soon thereafter. Today, it is on display in the Military Technical Museum in Lešany, Czech Republic.

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"The Lidice massacre was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and the successor of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Kurt Daulege.

In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 men from the village who were over 15 years of age were executed on 10 June 1942. A further 11 men from the village who were not present at the time were later arrested and executed soon afterwards, along with several others who were already under arrest. Out of a total 503 inhabitants, 307 women and children were sent to a makeshift detention center in a Kladno school. Of these, 184 women and 88 children were deported to concentration camps; 7 children who were considered racially suitable and thus eligible for Germanisation were handed over to SS families, and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp, where they were gassed to death."
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Looked up the CYBOPOB.
(Hey, I'm retired and have to do something while drinking my coffee in the morning ;) )

This from a modelers website:

(Describing a model)
"The Cyrillic writing on the side of the S1 FOV 1:32 T-34/85 tank is aparently a Russian last name. Translated into English, it reads "Suvorov", from the Cyrillic letters "CYBOPOB". This is according to one of the students I tutor who is Russian and translated it. Now whom or what ever the name "Suvorov" is supposed to represent, I guess is lost to history - as well as to FOV's motives - but just though it was cool to know :)"

"There were probably any number of "Suvorovs" painted on Soviet tanks. A bit like a southerner painting Robert E. Lee on his."

"Alexander Vasilievitsh Suvorov (1730-1800) was a field marshal of the tsarist army under Catherine the Great. A veteran of the seven-year war and wars against Poland and Turkey, Suvorov is perhaps best known for his role in suppressing the Polish Kosciuszko insurrection of 1794-95 (trivia - Kosciuszko was a veteran of the American War of Independence) which marked the 3rd and final partition of Poland between Russia, Prussia and Austria. Suvorov is often referred to as the Butcher of Praga (the easternmost suburb of Warsaw) - upon capturing this part of the city, he ordered a massacre of the civilian population. Terrified Warsaw surrendered five days later.

The appearance of the name of a tsarist general on a turret of a Soviet tank is accurate and consistent with Stalin's own policies. After the crushing defeats in 1941, efforts were made to restore the morale in the Red Army by, among other things, appealing to the military tradition and heroes of the old tsarist regime."

 
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