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Man, am I ever glad someone else remembers that sketch. :)

At risk of derailing the thread, I think it important to enlighten those who may not recall this useful PSA from the good folks at CCCP1 Russian Television:

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16161262.2019.1606545

Interesting article published back in April, discussing in great detail (and length) the Soviet "Battle of Prokhorovka" which using Luftwaffe aerial surveying photos has been shown to be an absolute debacle for the Soviets, rather than a stunning victory.

Interesting quote, from a BBC article speaking about this is from the nephew of a war photographer;
'Do you know why no panoramic photos of the Prokhorovka battlefield were ever shown in our country?' my uncle asked me. 'Because for every burning Tiger there were 10 of our smashed up T-34s! How could you publish such photos in the papers?'"
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48963295
 
Western LIES! Glorious Soviet tank army crushed the Hitlerites comrehensively at Prokhorovka! Official statuary never lies!

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Plenty of time afterward for happy photos for Comrades of the Propaganda Ministry. But at the time, it appears to have been a pretty tough scrap for the Soviet Army.

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Good Canadian film dealing with explosives production.

Grizz
 
Lemme get that for you, Grizz. :)

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Good old Kijiji:

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"1944 Sherman - low mileage, slight body damage, will need fresh tracks, gun, mantlet, all hatches, exterior refinishing, all interior pieces, engine, transmission, drive sprockets, idler wheels, fittings of every description. Bodyman's special. No lowballers - I know what I have. $1B firm."
 
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Dennis had been an excellent wagon maker, as had his father before him and his father before him. So when the war started, Dennis thought it best to volunteer his skills at North American Aviation, home of the fastest wagons anywhere.

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His initial attempts at adapting wagon technology to the realm of aviation were not successful.
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Dennis had been an excellent wagon maker, as had his father before him and his father before him. So when the war started, Dennis thought it best to volunteer his skills at North American Aviation, home of the fastest wagons anywhere.

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His initial attempts at adapting wagon technology to the realm of aviation were not successful.
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Shortage of rubber in wake of Japanese victory in Malaya etc?
 
Dark Alley Dan said:
Lemme get that for you, Grizz. :)

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Good old Kijiji:

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"1944 Sherman - low mileage, slight body damage, will need fresh tracks, gun, mantlet, all hatches, exterior refinishing, all interior pieces, engine, transmission, drive sprockets, idler wheels, fittings of every description. Bodyman's special. No lowballers - I know what I have. $1B firm."
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When I was a kid, there were several used as targets at the Sarcee range near Calgary, victims of a fire that occurred on the base. Seems such a shame now. Thanks for posting the video, my computer literacy still suffers. :redface:

Grizz
 
Auggie Doggie said:
Oh no, the Uzbeks drank my battery acid again!

Auggie D.
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How could he know the Uzbeks were going to do such a thing? :p

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Hatam Kadirov (left) and an unnamed prisoner, possibly also Zair Muratov

The only two known Uzbek soldiers of 101 who were brought to Utrecht as a Nazi propaganda exercise. They were captured after the Battle of Smolensk. They were subsequently worked until they became: 'musselmen' then taken out in the woods to be shot. Very few people in Holland were aware of the story until recently.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39849088

They left their homes in Central Asia to fight against the German army. Then, dressed in rags, they were taken as prisoners to a concentration camp in the Netherlands. Few now alive remember the 101 mostly Uzbek men who were killed in a forest near Amersfoort in 1942 - and they may well have been forgotten entirely if it had not been for a curious Dutch journalist.

Every spring hundreds of Dutch men and women, young and old, gather in a forest near the town of Amersfoort, near Utrecht.

Here they light candles to commemorate 101 unknown Soviet soldiers who were shot dead by the Nazis at this very spot - and then forgotten for more than half a century.

The story was rediscovered 18 years ago, when journalist Remco Reiding returned to the town after working in Russia for several years, and heard from a friend that there was a Soviet war cemetery nearby.
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Dark reverberations of madness: Momo and Uzier (United Investment and Trading Company) burn during the Yugoslavian Wars.

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The end of Stari Most. Mostar, 9/11/1993 (9 November, 1993)


I did not know this but Spanish and Portuguese combat engineers assigned to UNPROFOR kept the river spanned. Unsung heroes all!

Unitic and Stari Most were rebuilt.
 

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