Rhomboid tanks

joerookery

joerookery

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Sergei Vilimerec sent this from the Ukraine. I think it's pretty amazing. The condition. I remember at Fort Knox we had one such tank that was in terrible condition. I think the chopped up one at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. These seem almost perfect and survived World War II. I know there is a nice cutaway example in the Imperial war Museum that I have dragged my wife to twice but I was not aware of these.

We have the Ukraine have preserved British tanks of the Great War. One tank is located in the city of Kharkiv and two tanks in the city of Lugansk
These tanks were captured in the fighting Red Army at the White Guards during the Civil War in 1918
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Hey Joe, he sent me those photos too, I was in shock when I saw them. It is nice that the bad guys did not sell off all the historic items that were in the former Soviet Union.
Gsu
 
Fighting vehicles took part in the civil war of 1918-1920, and Denikin's troops were engaged against the Red Army: The Government of the United Kingdom, among other weapons and uniforms, and put these tanks the White Guards.
During the fighting machines were repulsed by the White Guards red. And in 1920, these, as well as French tanks were the first team avtotankovy, which marked the beginning of a new combat arm of the Red Army - Tank.
Total in Russia was passed about 60 tanks, of which only 30 survived. In the 30s tanks grade MC-5 were retired Red Army. In 1938 the People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov adopted the document which had the following information: "... All these tanks are not on the move, without weapons, are stored in the warehouse district and the central and the troops are not used. I consider it necessary to use the tanks as follows: "Ricardo" (for example, under the name of engine modifications, called in the Soviet tanks "Mark-5 ') of 14 pieces of transfer of two cities: Smolensk, Rostov-on-Don, Kharkov, Leningrad, Kiev , Voroshilovgrad (now - Lugansk) and Arkhangelsk to use them as a historical landmark of the civil war ... ".
 
Lugansk tanks were also under threat of destruction: the eyewitnesses, in the late 1950s, in the wake of criticism Voroshilov, received instructions to remove the tanks from the pedestals and give to the facility. However, at the initiative of the workers Lugansk Locomotive Plant, both tanks were dug into the ground right at the plant site for storage of scrap metal. After coming to power of Leonid Brezhnev's tanks were restored as a monument.

Lugansk tanks are located symmetrically in museum, being a continuation of the memorial complex "Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution."

In 2007, with the assistance of the British side it was decided to refurbish the tanks, which were returned after the restoration to its original place
 
It is really great that these tanks were preserved, as very few were preserved in the rest of the world.
Best
Gus
 
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