1940 Soviet Tanks fall prey to the Finns

British Newsreel. January 18, 1940. A Soviet T-28 medium tank lay knocked out in the snows of Karelia. The Soviet T-28 was among the world's first medium tanks. The prototype was completed in 1931 and production began in late 1932. It was an infantry-support tank intended to break through fortified defences.The T-28 had one large turret with a 76.2mm gun and two smaller turrets with 7.62mm machine guns. A total of 503 T-28 tanks were manufactured over a period of 8 years from 1933 to 1941.he T-28 was deployed during the Invasion of Poland and the Winter War against Finland. During the initial stages of the Winter War, the tank was used in direct fire missions against Finnish pillboxes. In the course of these operations it was found that the armour was inadequate and programs were initiated to upgrade it. Frontal plates were upgraded from 50 mm to 80 mm and side and rear plates to 40 mm thickness. With this up-armoured version the Red Army broke through the main Finnish defensive fortification, the vaunted Mannerheim Line.over 200 T-28s were knocked out during the Winter War, but only 20 of them were in irrecoverable losses (including 2 captured by the Finnish Army). Due to proximity of the Kirov Plant, all other knocked-out tanks were repaired, some of them over five times.

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• Winter
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• Karelia
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[wirman777]

GHAAA MY EARS :(

[dumbcow1]

the Finns fucked the Rusians up, then went home, had some vodka, and wrote metal music. Finnland wins

[Ultradalek7]

EAR RAPE

[jiipeeish]

KUNNIA-ISÄNMAA

(HONOUR-FATHERLAND)

[Trekker84]

@tallfot

:D

[fantom6150]

i love Finnland

[Nemetsa]

If those stupid Russians didn't use KGB (world's biggest organization for steаling technologies) to steаl German technologies they wouldn't even have tanks.They got lucky that the harsh russian winter saved them from Hitler .

[tallfot]

Thoughts.

"Kun Molotoffi sanoi että kaikki harosii,huomenna jo Helsingissä syödään marosii!

Njet Molotoff, njet Molotoff, valehtelit

enemmän kuin itse Bobrikoff! Njet Molotoff,

njet Molotoff, valehtelit enemmän kuin itse Bobrikoff!"

I had to do it :-)

[tallfot]

@skyforer Nah...Leadership is the answer. If you kill of all of the experienced one. What are you left with?

[tallfot]

@filaega Mature...And you would kick his as* att WOW?

[tallfot]

@Tyco200 Finland had tanks/airforce after this "winterwar"...Thanks to Germany! (not to forget all of the brave volonteers who made Finland a free country.

[tallfot]

My grandfather was 17 years old during the winterwar against the "red", and he told me about how they opened the cheeks of the chared/frozen/ remains of the "Venälaiset"<- (the red shite) and if they if had gold teeths they pryed them out with what ever they had theyr hands on.. Gold/Oil was even then a factor to survive. to bad the ruskies fuc*ed up by go for socialism.