RED ARMY TANK COLORS AND MARKINGS IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-45

[@flectz]

crazy to think about how some crudely applied symbols done by a peasant soldier would be so thoroughly studied and go down in history forever. mustve seemed like such an inconsequential action at the time

[@NS-bu6sk]

Great vid! Keep up a good work! Just a few bits I’d like to add: 10:58 - the writing says "Motherland" ("Родина"), likely a tank name than a motto. "For the Motherland!" (as a motto) is "За Родину!". 11:05 - "Death to Fascists!" is spelled "Смерть фашистам!". "To the West!" is "На запад!" meaning that soviets are finally on the offensive in general. There is a great song describing the mental impact this turnaround had on soviets written by Vladimir Vysotsky - “We rotate the world” (“Мы вращаем землю”)(1). Other such mottos could be more specific depending on the front where a regiment was fighting, like “На Варшаву!” (“To Warsaw!”) or “На Берлин!” (“To Berlin!”). In contrast “For Stalingrad!” (“За Сталинград!”) means in retribution for Stalingrad (a soviet city reduced to rubble by war), other notable ruined or occupied cities could be “Киев” (Kiev), “Ленинград” (Leningrad), “Севастополь” (Sevastopol), “Минск” (Minsk), ”Смоленск” (Smolensk), ”Харьков” (Kharkiv), “Курск” (Kursk), etc. I’m not an expert, but I assume, they were mostly used by regiments who defended/liberated these cities or were initially formed there. 11:34 - occasionally there were individuals who donated military equipment to the Red Army (even tanks and aircrafts). For example Mariya Oktyabrskaya aka “Fighting Girlfriend” (“Боевая подруга”). tankfront.ru/foto/ussr/names/boevaya_podruga/boevaya_podruga-2.jpg (1) the song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4TGhp6efJuXbrc the lyrics: wysotsky.com/1033.htm?840

[@hanspanzer1260]

I want to say about the names of the cities. Almost 99% of those names were made by the factory workers at the lines to recognise from which city did that tank came from

[@n2thea]

Your ww2 channel is criminally underrated, this is such an informative video! wish you had more subs!

[@PremierHistory]

Always forget just how vast the Soviet Union was.. probably something the Third Reich should have considered too really!

[@rolandhunter]

1939 sept-1941. June 22: 1939: Soviet forces: Around 30-40 divisions. 1940. Soviet forces: Around 60-80 divisions. 1941.Soviet forces: Around 100-150 divisons. Germans had and today we can read them: very good reports about this military deployment. 1940 november: Molotov meet with Ribbentrop, asked Germany approval to take: Finnland, Baltic States, Romanian eastern territories, and "alliance" freemilitary transit with Bulgaria. Germany said: Nope. After that meeting, everybody known there will be War. 1941 May, Stalin Speech:www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13518049808430331?journalCode=fslv20 Stalin wanted WAR. Germany military espionage was BAD because Canaris hated Hitler, so they false reported many things or not reported at all. So Hitler had bad or false information about the USSR soviet forces. After they delacred the war, Hitler said:"I feel so, than the rider who galloped onto the ice, then on the middle of the lake, found it out, how the ice is thin." Hitler was so stressed he was ill until 3-7 weeks, so he missed the war conferences and his stubborn generals not followed his plan. So OP Barbarossa was fucked up.

[@sodinc]

Full maps of USSR were recomended not to be shown to general public and conscripts in Germany

[@hoxxi2373]

@@sodinc Really? Do you have a source for that? It sounds really interesting so I‘d like to now a little bit more about what you said.

[@Emchisti]

Well now. Clearly the best video you've done, Comrade. You've excelled yourself. Genuinely. Incidentally, wartime Guards badges don't have the tassled fringe underneath the banner. Post war ones do, which will help identifying those that were done after 1945. Keep up the good work.

[@girthbrooks39]

Great work as always! Thanks

[@andrewshawmodels8610]

Excellent video! Solid information, well presented and illustrated. Good stuff. 👍

[@frankp.w.schindler3234]

Awesome! THX for your effort, keep it up. 👍

[@freda8586]

Thank you. This was very informative and well researched.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Informative, interesting, well presented. Fine job.

[@clouddog2393]

Very interesting. Great photo's l've not seen before and well presented . A real boon for us WW2 tank modellers .

[@fantasticgoatac4780]

My favourite video this year as of now! Good job!

[@user-jn6vo4zu5y]

Good video on a rare topic

[@methodeetrigueur1164]

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing !

[@SudoSparde]

Very nice summary! Thanks for the research and video

[@majmikecalnan]

Great work, as always, Mike!👍👍

[@ericfrehlich8800]

Love your content comrade! Keep it up and maybe you'll get a promotion

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

I'm already the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer here at handgrenadedivision HQ - a promotion would just interfere with my potato peeling, but I appreciate the sentiment. :-)

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Promotion to onion peeler, comrade!

[@TheStugbit]

Nice video! There's not that many videos about Russian tank camouflages during the war. Many thanks! Another thing we're missing a lot on the internet are videos about the Gebirgsjäger troops. Mountain warfare is very interesting and complex and yet few people talks about it. Mark Felton may have done a single video talking about the capture of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus and that's all. The Gebirgsjäger was the coolest wwii troop by far, in my opinion. On the Russian side, an interesting troop also often forgotten are their naval troops. They seemed to have played an important role at least in some battles during the war but we don't see much about them. Those are my suggestions for videos! Regards.

[@Steven-yd4ni]

Great video, keep up the AWESOME work.

[@ww2hungary827]

Great video with clear explanations! Thank you for the citation :)

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

Happy to do so. I encourage anyone interested in the subject to visit your channel, and hopefully they will like and subscribe to you.

[@pendarricrolynd7444]

Great video, keep them coming!

[@arturbaluyev2873]

I love your eager researches, mate! I can help you with translations and transliterations from Russian in your upcoming videos, if you need, because some of them in this video are not quite correct, so you just ask. Thank you for great videos on very rarely highlited topics!

[@franciszeklatinik889]

Thank you sheading some light into the subject of WWII Soviet Markings. I'd say you are about on par with Mark Felton with quality for your videos.

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

If only I had his ravishing good looks and ear-catching accent, but I'll take it, thank you.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

It’s really a shame I can’t like videos twice.

[@TARDISwinning]

Great video

[@benrocks7]

Love your work, thank you!

[@fluffboio7087]

underrated channel here.

[@andreystolyarov7608]

Really like your presenting style. Hope you make more soviet stuff.

[@wheelervette]

Brilliant thanks for the information. I play a game called Bolt action and make Soviet vehicles. This is both interesting and very helpful.

[@RMJjerry]

There is weird Sound which is making speech sound whisping, Still good and entertaining video keep up the good

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

Still working on optimizing the sound quality on the voiceover through new sound recording equipment, working on technique and better utilization of the editing software. I would love to have the money to hire a professional but that's not in the cards. Will keep working on it.

[@michaelt7852]

What editing software do you use? Great video by the way

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

Art - Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Picture Editor, Video and Sound - Cyberlink Power Director and associated software suites.

[@michaelt7852]

@@HandGrenadeDivision did not expect you to reply so fast. thank you for your quick and informational answer! by the way I never expected the recent focus on Canadian world war 2 history but it's definitely a very interesting topic especially the videos you make about such as the signs of war video or ''story behind the photo''! thanks again!

[@Emdee5632]

When I search for Russian Protective 4BO (visiting sites of paint manufatures for model plastic kits) I get quite several different colors. but the general hue and shade is considerably darker than FS 34257. FS 34102 seems to be very close, and FS 34052 is darker. Thanks, this video did help me to decide what colors to use when building model kits of Russian WW2 armor! The smaller the model becomes the more white you had to add to the model. I'm mostly building in 1/35 scale so I'll stick to colors that are close to the two darker shades you mention.

[@kirishima638]

fantastic

[@JacobA6464]

Hey, do you know if there is an equivalent to the Bluejackets Manual but for Germany? Basically a book with the rewards, uniform regulations, etiquette at home or at war, etc...

[@prussian.knight]

Nice!

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I think those are Polish T-34 tanks at 7:49. The Piast eagle is just visible on the one at the left. They may have copied Red Army practice but might have had their own numbering conventions.

[@bbcmotd]

Great content, though quite a lot of typos in Russian words. Google translate would help with correct spelling here. E.g. на вперед means "to forward" and isn't grammatically correct in Russian

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

I appreciate this. I will have the IIa have a stern talk with the intelligence section and find out why the interpreters have fallen down on the job. Probably trusting their sources a little too much.

[@nicholaspoplawski601]

They also make good aiming points for hj and their panzer Faust!!

[@ordinarybrowser6819]

i'd love to see the uniform history of the soviet armed forces

[@mattanderson6336]

5:05-Do you have any information on what types of fonts for Cyrillic numerals were common on tanks.

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

That is not something I could answer intelligently. On first glance it seems that a lot of it was done freehand but I honestly haven't accessed many primary documents on this and will defer to true subject matter experts.

[@simplymadness8849]

Performing my great patriotic duty and commenting for the algorithm.

[@coon199]

You should do a uniforms of the waffen and allegmeine SS next.

[@ladela7348]

I mean, other than camouflage smocks and stuff Waffen-SS uniforms were similar to Heer uniforms.

[@coon199]

@@ladela7348 I just wanted to pleasure my eyes tbh

[@rickmoreno6858]

Thank you I'll use this for sure on my Soviet tanks in 1/35th scale

[@utzius8003]

The Soviet Tankist March is honestly my favourite song of WW2.

[@sachanorden9669]

oh I see that two have pressed the gulag buttun

[@HandGrenadeDivision]

Freedom of expression is something I support, no trips to Gulag if it's up to me. I'm hoping they have also respectfully posted their constructive criticisms in the comments .

[@GenMaj_Knight]

I've always seen some Soviet tanks named something along the lines of "Soandso Factory No. 200" or something along those lines, was that ever an occasional naming scheme or is it just a stereotypical communist thing people made up?

[@davidtoth8975]

"На вперёд" means "Forward!". "West" would be "Запад", pronounced 'zapad'.

[@itsyaboiwan6416]

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