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They did that so they could change the batteries.

Nice....the former Tank Commander is now a latrine orderly in Siberia. All it probably needs is replacement fuel drums and paint. Those old T-34 chassis were tough.

But how?
From the first pic I thought it may have fallen off the edge of something,then you scroll down and realise it's on a flat road.
Unless of coarse it fell off the back of a lorry!

Who was the driver!

It wasn't me I don't think I'm that bad

I clicked on something in the pics ?? and it said they lost it while loading on a lowboy after the Victory Parade.

I also noticed in a couple pics that there appeared to be quite a bit of spilt fuel and not one grain of drysweep visible. Just let it run down the down the curb to the sewer ( or right into the river as it looks like it's on a bridge). It's kind funny, I can still remember when the US Army was that lackadazacle to oil and fuel spills, that is until the EPA started fining the military )

Jim

Welcome to former SSSR, Isgt. That's the way it is.

The laws are on the books, but....you can drive out in the country, and even find them in the cities, and see concrete ramps where people can drive their cars up on same, change oil and filter, and then drive on. Problem is the work space under the ramp is usually a deep pit, which is full of old oil and used filters, all leeching in to the local ground. In the 'old days' there was an attendant 24/7 who would not allow that foolishness, but they are gone now, long gone.

And Lord knows what is running in to the ground in all the abandoned factories with in some instances hundreds of aging, rusting barrels of various chemicals and lubricants, just left there when things fell apart.

It is also a mind set. I have seen many times people, especially the younger ones, standing 1 m from a trash can and simply drop their trash and beer bottle on the ground. Can't tell you the number of times I've gotten stares or comments when I field strip a butt and drop the filter in the trash cans, which are everywhere here. Only thing I leave anywhere I go is my footprints. An oddity here for sure.

And it ain't only the locals. We get about a kazillion tourists here in Sevastopol in summer, most from EU and UK. You know, the nasty clean, ecoligically conscious folks....who forget everything they know and believe in when they come here. Talk about trash. literally and figuratively. Shows how deep the ecologist mindset really is. Takes a month to clean the city and beaches in September when they are gone.

Seeing this really hurts ... it being an SU-100. []


- Jeff