Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Soviet tanks, 1980

Sentinels of Peace.  The Soviet Armed Forces.  Moscow:  Progress Publishers, 1980.

1 comment:

Mister G said...

I asked a Russsian friend for a translation;

The turrets most likely bear the name of the senders of these tanks or someway else inspired by the 'Komsomolietz of Khabarovsk'

Komsomol (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, b.1918) was a youth organization controlled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.The name comes from the first syllables of three Russian words meaning Communist Union of Youth.)
Komsomoletz- member of this organizantion, basically all soviet people age 14-28.
Khabarovsk- russian city in Siberia, that was not under germans during the war- one of the industrial hubs.
By the feel of this picture it should be T34 indeed, the pic does not look like being taken in 1980... way earlier like, WWII.