DKTanker Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I just looked on Street View. No barriers or border controls at all now. Apparently removed only in the last 8 years or so. Google Earth historic view shows a shelter over the center of the bridge as late as December 2006. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendist Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 In the top picture in post 25 there is a sign with text in english and french. How common was it with french or english speaking tourists in this area in the mid 1960s? If the sign was meant for tourists that is. Also does anybody have any guess as to what the sign above said before it was painted over? Perhaps it had the same message as the one below just in Russian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Werb Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Did the T-55 have major internal changes from the 54? It seems strange to assign a new number when the only visible external difference is a ventilatioun louvre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojan Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Yes, fully redesigned ammo storage and some of internal fuel tanks, hence increase. Turret was actually of slightly different shape, but that is hard to see on pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Tucan Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 (edited) The joke at the time was"Why did the Russians invade Czechoslovakia?"."The Russians entered into Czechoslovakia in response to an invitation"."And what are they doing in there after all this time?""They are still looking for whoever invited them!" "Do you know the difference between occupation and fraternal assistance?""Nope.""Really?""Really not, a friend knew it and got two years..." Edited February 14, 2015 by Marek Tucan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BansheeOne Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 A Red Army soldier returns home from intervention in Czechoslovakia. "So Ivan, did you see counter-revolution?" "Oh yes, lots of counter-revolution, counter-revolution everywhere." "I see. But where is your friend Pavel?" "Well, he didn't see counter-revolution everywhere." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOW-2 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Any photos of the famous T55 that lead to the creation of the L7/M68 105mm gun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alejandro_ Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Any photos of the famous T55 that lead to the creation of the L7/M68 105mm gun? I thought that was in Hungary -a T-54 which was crashed into an embassy-. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOW-2 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Any photos of the famous T55 that lead to the creation of the L7/M68 105mm gun? I thought that was in Hungary -a T-54 which was crashed into an embassy-. You're right; I was a little punchy when I wrote that. Thanks for the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mnm Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Any photos of the famous T55 that lead to the creation of the L7/M68 105mm gun? I thought that was in Hungary -a T-54 which was crashed into an embassy-. That sounds like a classical start for a joke! By the way, an East German (or Pole, or ChzSlov, or Hungarian, take your pick) goes into a People's Police station and says:- Comrade Policeman, two Swiss soldiers robbed me of my Soviet watch!- Eh? Haven't you got it the wrong way round? Wasn't it two Soviet soldiers stealing your Swiss watch?- Those are your words, not mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 Another great photo of a T-10M... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Chin Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) Why did Russians paint a white stripe down the center lines of their tank from front to rear and side to side? I think I saw the same painting on LL Shermans and JS tanks in black and out photos from 1945. Edited February 17, 2015 by Jonathan Chin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Tucan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Friendly fire. "Invasion stripes". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanoid Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Friendly fire. "Invasion Brotherly help stripes".FIFY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaarin7 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 It was meant to aid in avoiding fire from friendly air units. I've seen the same thing on pics of armor going into Poland in 1939. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOW-2 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 A Red Army soldier returns home from intervention in Czechoslovakia. "So Ivan, did you see counter-revolution?" "Oh yes, lots of counter-revolution, counter-revolution everywhere." "I see. But where is your friend Pavel?" "Well, he didn't see counter-revolution everywhere." Old grandfather goes to the GUM in Moscow in the 1970s, ends up waiting for two hours to buy a loaf of bread. Then when he gets to the front of the queue, the clerk tells him the bread has sold out. He can see a van full of bread loaves in a nearby alley and so he yells out: "I am a hero of the Revolution! I fought the Nazis in Stalingrad! I served the Motherland and protected her as she protected us! This is an outrage!" A young man in a heavy overcoat steps up and claps his arm around the fellow's shoulders and says "Well, you know, Comrade, we must all make do the best we can eh? Now...please, don't create a fuss or..." and he winks, smiles and makes a pistol motion towards his temple. The man walks home dejectedly. When he gets home his wife sees he is empty handed and says "Ivan! What happened? Are they out of bread?" He sits down at the table and groans. "Worse! They are out of bullets!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Rare IS-3 based ARV/heavy prime mover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 Welcome home for Polish troops returning home from Operation Danube... PT-76, T-54, and IS-2 ARV... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbanoid Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 (edited) LOL On the left: Long live the USSR - a bulwark of peace and socialism On the right: With creative work of the nation we welcome 5th congress of PZPR (Polish United Workers Party) Edited February 28, 2015 by urbanoid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 Ah, the East German NVA is definitely not been in Czechoslovakia ZEIT ONLINE Year: 1994 Issue: 34 "Was the East German army in 1968 participated in the invasion of Prague? According to Stasi documents seized in East Berlin soldiers not include: Always ready However, the documentation also supported the previous findings that the National People's Army (NVA) of the GDR did not intervene with their own combat forces in Czechoslovakia. Monika Tantzscher, the body responsible for this research associate of the Gauck Authority, white, inter alia, from the hand of the Act Stasi minister Erich Mielke , "that at that time only a news department of the NVA crossed the border." Although the entire NVA was transferred to increased combat readiness, and the 7th Armoured Division was in reserve ready. These associations, as Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann wrote, were "on solving tasks on the territory of Czechoslovakia prepared" and ready to "fulfill all tasks". But they did not seem to interfere. At a meeting of the Czechoslovak president Ludvic Svoboda generals of the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and the GDR, the Deputy Secretary of Defense noted Heinz Kessler few days after the invasion, it was argued that troops of the NVA not befänden on Czechoslovak territory. As Svoboda interjected, but there are reports that the troops of the NVA were in the northern part of Czechoslovakia, "these rumors," both of NVA General Martin Bleck and by the Soviet Army General Pawlowski as "untrue" were rejected." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Warford Posted March 10, 2015 Author Share Posted March 10, 2015 I remember the pic below from several years ago...can anyone confirm the type of IR searchlight being used on these T-54s during the invasion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bojan Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 BM-24T, quite a rare one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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