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More brutal KGB soldiers. From the collection of my friend Mikhail Kazankov.
Article The cold war - Soviet Army
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Tired KGB soldier with a duffel bag and a machine gun.
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From the demobilization album of a soldier of the 10th Panzer Division, Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. 1987-1991.
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Oranienburg 1990. Looking and noting numbers from the based Mi-6's and Mi-8MTs. I don't know if you can see it on the uploaded pic but the Ural truck spotted us an braked so hard that there was coming smoke from the tires. We didn't wait to find out what they wanted....
I was curious how it was for them being in East Germany. I met some soldiers over there which were from Siberia. They were a real long way from home. As Dutch conscript based in West Germany you could drive back home in the weekend to see your family, friends etc. but they were several time zones away from home.
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Gorbachev gave up East Germany without a fight. This greatly influenced the morale and discipline of both the German military and Soviet soldiers from the Western Group of Forces. It seems to me that in the 1970s it would have been very difficult to repeat the same thing.
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Every Soviet soldier during his service had the opportunity to take one large vacation for two weeks (not counting the days on the road). The soldier could take advantage of this opportunity, or continue his service. Additional leave could be obtained as a reward: for completing the commander's assignment, for showing courage in emergency situations, for successes in combat and political training. But if the unit had a shortage of soldiers (in the 1960s and 70s there was a large demographic hole due to losses in the war), the commander could not let the soldier leave the unit.
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By the way, if we are talking about time zones. The head of our department, candidate of historical sciences Alexander Polyakov served in the railway troops (1984-1986). He accompanied military trains, and visited almost all corners of the Soviet Union. I will attach this outstanding list.
"During my service in the Soviet army, I visited:
1.Kazan. 2. Alatyr. 3. Irkutsk. 4. Penza. 5. Ungheni (Moldova). 6.Ulyanovsk. 7.Smolensk. 8. Moscow. 9. Kaliningrad. 10. Agryz (Kazakhstan). 11. Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). 12.Kovylkino (Mordovia). 13. Nikolaev. 14.Alma-Ata. 15. Cheboksary. 16. Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory). 17. Petrovsky plant. 18. Penza. 19. Ufa. 20.Termez (Uzbekistan). 21. Khabarovsk. 22. Tashkent. 23 Bryansk. 24. Perm. 25. Novocherkassk. 26. Mozhaisk. 27. Kostroma. 28 Vitebsk. 29.Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). 30. Yoshkar-Ola. 31. Volgograd. 32. Lozovaya. 33. Kharkov. 34. Magdagachi (Amur Region). 35 Vladivostok. 36. Chernigov. 37. Green Valley (Tatarstan). 38 Brest. 39 Bui (Kostroma region). 40. Komsomolsk-on-Amur. 41. Koktas (Lake Balkhash). 42. Arys (Kazakhstan). 43.Naushki (Buryatia). 44.Sumerlya (Chuvashia). 45. Ulan-Ude. 46. Orenburg. 47. Shepetivka (Khmelnytsky region)"
"During my service in the Soviet army, I visited:
1.Kazan. 2. Alatyr. 3. Irkutsk. 4. Penza. 5. Ungheni (Moldova). 6.Ulyanovsk. 7.Smolensk. 8. Moscow. 9. Kaliningrad. 10. Agryz (Kazakhstan). 11. Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). 12.Kovylkino (Mordovia). 13. Nikolaev. 14.Alma-Ata. 15. Cheboksary. 16. Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory). 17. Petrovsky plant. 18. Penza. 19. Ufa. 20.Termez (Uzbekistan). 21. Khabarovsk. 22. Tashkent. 23 Bryansk. 24. Perm. 25. Novocherkassk. 26. Mozhaisk. 27. Kostroma. 28 Vitebsk. 29.Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg). 30. Yoshkar-Ola. 31. Volgograd. 32. Lozovaya. 33. Kharkov. 34. Magdagachi (Amur Region). 35 Vladivostok. 36. Chernigov. 37. Green Valley (Tatarstan). 38 Brest. 39 Bui (Kostroma region). 40. Komsomolsk-on-Amur. 41. Koktas (Lake Balkhash). 42. Arys (Kazakhstan). 43.Naushki (Buryatia). 44.Sumerlya (Chuvashia). 45. Ulan-Ude. 46. Orenburg. 47. Shepetivka (Khmelnytsky region)"
Flightline with Some Su-17M4 Fitter-K's and in the background an An-12, MiG-29 and Mi-8MT
Main platform with a fuelstorage in the foreground and some radars in the background. Templin / Gross Dolln had a very long runway capable of handling the Tu-22 Blinder as well as the Tu-22M Backfire which sometimes landed there.
Different airbase, this time Grossenhain were at that moment MiG-27s were based. This Su-7, which in western Europe was quite a rare aircraft, was not visible from the public road so we asked at the gate if we could see the aircraft. A friendly Russian (the guy on the far right) escorted us to the aircraft and we could take pictures.
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