>>65120508
i still can't watch him after his fag-out from redeffect, inexcusable

>>65120514
>his fag-out from redeffect
What happened? Was it that slap-fight they got into over the T-14 Armata or was this something else?

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>>65120508
No idea who that is but based on these thumbnails alone this guy must be one of the most insufferable faggots imaginable

>>65120521
it was a whole ago, but i remember him arguing with redeffect & showing himself to be a complete bitch who has no idea what hes talking about
i also noticed a drastic decline in his video quality after the argument too, with many things getting called out as wrong in the comments

>>65120535
I think its because hes lately been targeting vehicles from a country who have a larger fanbase willing to nitpick compared to his earlier videos.
Like honestly whos going to go out of their way to defend to defend the viewpoints of backwards people like the reformers and the fighter plane mafia. honestly surprised he never got as much salt from German armor fans for those videos.

>>65120527
He is, but he makes ziggers and redditors seethe.

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>>65120508
Buy an ad, you cum-guzzling faggot.
Or better yet, go back to r/non_credibledefense or whatever the fuck its call on plebbit.

>>65120508
He is an infantile moron with no regard for historical fact.

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>>65120508
Arent (You) the faggot who uploads three-hour videos rambling about culture war bullshit nobody cares about? Buy a fucking ad.

>>65120712
This

>>65120672
>I think its because hes lately been targeting vehicles from a country who have a larger fanbase willing to nitpick compared to his earlier videos.
His first popular and still second most watched video is about the T-34 and it's more full of shit than his T-14 video

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>>65120508
I like the fact he makes our most annoying posters screech uncontrollably.

>>65120535
Imagining claiming redeffect knows what he's talking about.

>>65120508
Always funny when an actual historian is asked something along the lines of "LazerPig said this is this correct?" and they have to try really hard to mask the completely warranted righteous indignation at someone spouting such retarded nonsense as fact.

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>>65120508
>LazerPig says

>>65120721
>>65120712
>>65121232
But is he wrong? How so?

>>65121232
He has managed to piss off GunJebus, the Queeftain, Drac as far as I am aware who have all made sections in vids saying he's retarded.

>>65120508
Lazerpig says that the Porsche Tiger used an X16 diesel for some reason, and that a small single-mother car makes as much torque as a supercharged V12 diesel tank engine lmao.

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>>65120508
I denounce the anglochrist

>>65120514
RedEffect is a russian cock sucking faggot, way more gay than the LazerFag could ever be

>>65120535
It's retards like RedEffect and other fans of soviet shit which have no idea what they are talking about. They literally take russian shit at face value not having any experience of how things actually function in russia.

>>65121211
i agree with him in a general sense in most of the topics he covers, but it doesn't change the fact that he cant make a cogent point to save his life and comes off as a spastic

>>65121232
>actual historian
Like Mark Faggton, right?

>>65121258
IIRC his name also popped up once or twice in TankArchives and TIK Q&As as well

>>65121258
So Lazerpig is doing something right.

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>>65120508
>The T-72 Sucks (part 2): Morozov's P1imp wagon
>Looks inside expecting to see charts and data to show how the T-64 was the better tank then the T-72
>T-34 sucks rant and how redditors and war thunder nerds are stupid for not agreeing with lazer pig.
Can we get to the T-72 at some point? The rant about the T-34 is honestly not needed and he already did it in part 1. Lazerpig is hyper focued on how unreliable the T-34 was early in the war but somehow seems to have missed any data that shows how the reliability of the T-34 got better with time and became easier and cheaper to produce as it became more reliable. It is almost as if the workers in the various tank factories are becoming better with time as they build more tanks. Maybe the unskilled labour is turning into skilled labour.

But please, let's talk about the T-72 in the next video. Pull up the data that shows how the T-72 had a higher failure rate per 1000km then the T-64, how the T-72 autoloader lacks some features that the T-64 autoloader have or how the T-64 commander have a fully stabilized commanders sight and remote gun then the T-72 etc.

>>65121343
>Can we get to the T-72 at some point?
He kinda did. He correctly provides the soviet context of the issues in question, how, what and why was done by soviets.

>>65121343
>T-34 got better with time and became easier and cheaper to produce
Because it was a corner cutting extravaganza

>it became more reliable.
Delusional

>>65121349
>Delusional
Do you have anything to back this up. If the average T-34 was still breaking down after driving 50 miles after 1942 then the various forced marches and offensives in 43, 44 and 45 would not have happend. I am genuinely curious if you got any books and links.

>>65121360
You know full well he either won't reply at all or call you a vatnigger

>>65121343
You see anon, he could just do a 5 second post on X or whatever and say the T-72 sucks because it's Soviet or he could explain the backstory of exactly why the Soviet Union was so horrible when it came to tank design and production by the time they made the T-72. Both things relay the same information, one just goes a lot more in depth about it.

>>65121360
>Do you have anything to back this up
How about my grandpa and dad serving in the soviet army? Including the fact my grandpa literally fought all the way to Germany. Those T-34 shitboxes were so much ass that the only reason they've "worked" is because there were a lot of them... and also bringing half a tank worth of spare parts with yourself, swapping parts like tracks, engines and transmissions so often that sometimes it would be just hours between swaps.

>>65121364
He's worse than a vatnigger, he is, may Allah forgive me for uttering these words, a commie fapper. Many older vatniggers, whom were actually were born in USSR, deep down known how bad soviet shit was, even if they won't say as much, because they see that as "giving propaganda ammo to the enemy". Sovok fappers born after 2000 or foreign sovok fappers should hang on the nearest tree.

>>65121360
The forced marches were mostly infantry with heavy artillery support due to the T-34's unreliability. What armor support was available was augmented by Emchas and T-34s were often cannibalized for speedy repairs.

I liked the video.

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I also watched the video, while on the treadmill yesterday.
I want to read more about these "clans" he talked about. Not the specific ones in the video, but more generally.

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>lazerpig makes a video about western equipment
>crickets
>lazerpig makes a video about Russian equipment
>nothing but insults thrown his way
Hmmmmm

>>65121420
Meanwhile in reality he was duly shat on the last time he spewed bullshit about a western tank (Challenger 2)

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>>65121432
NTA; he was? I thought his point was that the Chally 2 was a series of intentional trade-offs, and that the Chally 3 was more oriented towards peer conflict?

>>65121420
Negative attention is still attention. Apparently.

>>65121437
Unless I'm misremembering and it isn't the one where spends a couple of minutes defending the rifled gun with what amounts to "Uh, muskets?? Do you see any of them still around??"
The whole video was weirdly subdued too. Like he wanted to squeal on about how it's the best western MBT but knew he'd be laughed out of the room so most of it ended up being a wishy-washy "see it isn't so bad the Ukies love it" instead of his usual loud rapid-fire retardation.

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>>65121468
It was pretty subdued. At the end, the video mostly amounted to
>People who nitpick about the Chally 2 need to remember that it's still miles better than any current Russian tank
>Also, Chally 3 is on the way which will fix all of Chally 2's shortcomings
Which is true, but did he really need an hour to say that?

>>65121468
>>65121480
>>65121437
>Yeah he totally got shat on about western tanks
>Well actually he didn't and he wasn't really wrong about them
Ok, then what are you retards trying to say?

>>65121562
Believe it or not, different posts can be made by different Anons.

>>65121298
Mark "Hitler's navel lint" Felton, you mean?

>>65121480
I mean, it's an hour filled with penis jokes and insults aimed at Russians and Brits, so it's fun enough.

>>65121343
I think the videos are not just about why the T-72 is bad, but why the Soviet government and the way their tanks were developed led to the T-72 being bad and the wider context of its development
I don't know about how accurate it is (though it all *sounds* mostly correct at a quick glance), but it's at least pretty entertaining and fills a certain niche, where most other content creators would just rattle off stats and numbers with little insight into the "behind the scenes"

>>65121820
This. I've been thoroughly entertained by the first 2 parts and even if he stretches this out into a season of 12 episodes, as long as all the episodes have me chuckling, I'll be clicking and enjoying them.

>>65121562
>He got shat on, just not as much on account of having said much less retarded shit (and just said less in general)
>HMM SO HE DIDNT GET SHAT ON AT ALL HOW CURIOUS INDEED
Hire better shills David

>>65120508
I've watched a few of his videos and couldn't tell if he's right or wrong since I'm not a tank expert/autist.

I will however never listen to him again simply due to how fucking annoying and faggy he is. He in general just comes across as an annoying, unfunny, somewhat bitchy fag of a guy that a normie like me would avoid like the plague in public. He seems like the kind of guy who would wear a Rainbow Flag cape to a tank museum trip and make pig noises when he disagrees with the tour guide if that makes sense.

>>65121374
>How about my grandpa and dad serving in the soviet army? Including the fact my grandpa literally fought all the way to Germany.
That is not really a reliable source. Im not sure know you this but a man called Belton Y Cooper wrote about his experience in the US armed forces and his experience of the M4 sherman tank in a book titled "Death Traps". His job was recovery and repair of damaged or destroyed armored vehicles and he pretty much mostly saw destroyed sherman tanks which deeply affected his view of the tank.

TLDR he argued that the sherman was bad, unreliable, weakly armored and should have been replaced by the superior pershing tank. Historians using archive sources (The chieftain is one of them, looking at US archives) found the complete opposite, the Sherman tank was not a death trap, it was not unreliable and the pershing was not the wonder tank for the US army. Despite this the book "death traps" is still one of the big sources for outright misinformation on the sherman tank.

Your Grandpa survived a world war but unless your argument is backed by archived reports, books etc that show abmysal reliability rate of the T-34 in 43, 44 and 45 then your post have very weak foundation, might as well dismiss it as "my dad works at sony" argument.

>>65122008
>archived reports
>soviet union
>the country of faking reports to save your ass and faking shit for propaganda purposes
nigga please, people like you have to be forcefully deported to DPRK to get an idea that you can't rely on "primary sources" in soviet regimes

>>65122029
>you can't rely on "primary sources" in soviet regimes
And what do you think btvt is relying on? The website lazerpig is using for most of his info.

>>65122047
NAFO's touch instantly turns any source credible you dumb vatnigger

>>65121258
How do you piss off Drac?

>>65121343
>Can we get to the T-72 at some point?
The point is that you can't ask "why soviet tank like this?" without understanding the soviet union.

>>65122097
By spouting a bunch of bullshit which he then has to sort out because a patron asked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0meGVnREaY&t=2956s

>LazerPig says

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>"Lazerpig is a moron"
>Ok, what points does he make that you disagree with
>Uh, uh, uh he's british! And pakis are taking over Britanistan amirite?
Every time

>>65121258
Lazerfag is retarded and a pedofile.

>>65123934
This. Some hate him because he's gay, some people hate him because he was negative about their favorite tank, some people hate him because a pig-avatar'd clown is somehow more popular than themselves. None of this is persuasive so most critics keep mum about why they hate Lazerpig. Or they make shit up like>>65123950

>please ignore the numerous time Lazernig has been proven to be a retard
Gotta work harder for that (You), David

>>65120508
>another lazerpig thread
>vatnik and 'i dont watch him, but i spend hours in every thread about him' brigage seething as usual
You can almost grab the russian anger from the walls in these threads, their anger is unmatched when someone is even slightly as dishonest as they are and banter like they do.

I take him with a grain of salt since his T-14 video, as one should with just about any youtuber, but I'd say his videos are pretty good for the most part, even if his knowledge of engineering leaves something to be desired

>>65124251
The whole thing about the Nazi engine was weird, in the sense of how angry so many people got about it.

>>65121820
The question is really, "is he making effective use of time while presenting context?" followed with "is every bit of context he's giving necessary to the topic at hand?" Because at this point the videos are about the constraints and political considerations of Soviet tank procurement post-WW2 prior to the introduction of the T-72, dude is Surf Dracula'ing a fucking documentary.

>>65124262
>is every bit of context he's giving necessary to the topic at hand?
Yes, because without the necessary context retards go "hurr-durr this doesn't make sense and couldn't be true".

>>65124257
There's exactly one party that got tilted about the matter and it's none other than His Swineness himself.
Everyone else involved was calmly explaining why his claims and the fuss he had made about them are a crock of shit.

>>65124257
It's even weirder in the context of how russians demand to be inventors and first creators of things and then bend over backwards to explain how others copied them even when it was clearly the other way around. It's a very touchy subject for them and when people start to look into it they might notice all their other discrepancies. So the standard move is to saturate the topic early and make any actual discussion or conclusions impossible.
If someone else had done something with one of their old engines what they had done with that engine it would not even been a question if one came from the other and anyone who would have said anything else would have been screamed into submission.

>>65121258
He's a good lolcow who's not always 100% right but makes the autist groups & tankies/vatniks seethe.
So I just enjoy his vids for the entertainment value they have

>>65124257
It got weird because he said something retarded, which happens to the best of us, and couldn't take the L gracefully, so he doubled down and got kinda clowned on

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>>65121261
>"The engine in the T-14 Armata makes less torque than a Honda Jazz"
(Lazer pig 2023)

>>65123934
The British are morons. There is absolutely no doubt about that.

if there ever was a place on this site for an eceleb talking out of his as and seething about Russia, /k/ is definitely it

>>65121310
not really, he's just kind of wrong about a lot of things and does the classic faggy "uhm, i'm infotainment" cope when someone who actually knows what he's talking about corrects his obviously wrong details that undermine the entire core point.
he's not wrong that the armata sucks but it's important that if you're going to spend hours going into detail as to why the armata sucks you better actually get the details right. if you're just going to say "lol armata suck cuz russia bad" why are you belaboring details to reach the same fucking conclusion? Which is correct, but when you literally make up fake details people who don't think the armata sucks (retards) can poke holes in your argument.

>>65121345
i haven't watched the video but it tracks from what i remember of his rambling style, which unfortunately the modern youtube algorithm favors because people like to put 5 hour long infotainmentslop on as background noise and they can run a shitload of ads during them.

>>65120508
I simply don't understand how people can tolerate this guy. He manages to average 1 5 second point every 5 minutes, with the rest of that time spent referencing internet memes

>>65125369
>"uhm, i'm infotainment" cope
>i remember of his rambling style
no selfawareness

there are only two categories of people that act really mad about him: vatnik fucks and "well, actually..." niggers, and it shows

i can't even comprehend how much time those two groups have wasted by going in every thread of him and either having a melty or trying to explain why they dont watch him which is just a cover for telling everyone to not watch him

>>65125388
>there are only two categories of people that act really mad about him: vatnik fucks and "well, actually..." niggers
And people who don't find him funny or even entertaining

I genuinely don't understand how holding your milsperg content to bare minimum standards such as 'it isn't completely fucking wrong about a bunch of things' is a contentious standpoint

>>65125398
No, while those people exist, they maybe tell their opinion in one or two threads, the strange butthurt you can see here and every other thread is simply not explained by that.

>>65125425
I watched part of one of his videos, found him obnoxious and unfunny, so now I'm going to visit these threads whenever I see them because I seriously judge the intelligence of somebody who could ever sit through one of his videos

>>65125433
Very organic.

>>65125439
I bet you think Peter Kay is a laugh too, faggot

>>65125484
>random accusation out of thin air
Would have been strange if it didn't happen, just anything so no one actually talks about the actual video.

>video about the T-72
>he doesn't actually say a single fucking thing about the T-72
Why didn't he just make a series about Soviet tanks from the T-34 to the T-72? It's clear he wants to talk about all of them, why claim this is about the T-72 specifically and then spend two videos doing nothing but talk about all Soviet tanks EXCEPT the T-72?

>>65125491
>implies i'm a shill
>gets mad about being called a faggot
I am insulting you. I hope this clears things up

>>65125498
Just curious, did you actually seen the video or just read the comments?

>>65125510
>next random accusation
Oh no, it is caught in a loop. Maybe i hit too close to home.

>oh no, i watched a video once i didn't like so now i spent hours in threads to create a bad atmosphere
kek

>>65125511
I watched both, only in the third video will he actually talk about the T-72. The first video was about the T-34, T-55 and T-62, this video was about the T-64 and T-80. It's not a series about the T-72, it's about all Soviet main battle tanks, since only the last video will be about the T-72 itself and no doubt a chunk of it will be dedicated to the T-90 as well.

>>65125525
Would be funny as fuck if the last video would be over the T-80 and or Armata.

>>65124927
Correct, because the engine of the T-14 doesn't work

>>65125369
>algorithm favors because people like to put 5 hour long
Lol, lmao. The algorithm favors a stream (posting often) of short videos, not an extremely long video one in a blue moon.

>>65125498
>doesn't actually say a single fucking thing about the T-72
He did, my "but I didn't have breakfast" brown friend

>>65125557
He can't bring up the T-14, since the series is about how the T-72 is the worst tank ever but the T-14 would disprove that since it's worse.

>>65120508
He has to be getting tired of jerking off the "everything soviet is bad" crowd. Any news on the next hate video for american airmen that he promised? What actual combat pilot will he compare to a discord mod this time?

>>65126071
>"but I didn't have breakfast" brown friend
Somebody explain this for my friend over here

>>65126102
Haiii helmetard!

>>65126105
It is a reference to a (supposed) metric for intelligence, based on the assumption that an unintelligent person cannot comprehend hypotheticals, and their lack of intelligence will quickly reveal itself should you ask them the question "how would you feel if you didn't have breakfast?". A person of middling or above intelligence should give a reasonable response (the particulars don't matter), while an unintelligent person will simply refute the question by responding along the lines of "but I did have breakfast". I think it has some basis in actual research, but I'm not familiar with the specifics of that research so YMMV. In any case, the breakfast thing just means borderline clinically unintelligent.

>>65124257
>The whole thing about the Nazi engine was weird
Dipshit says something easily disproven with even the most pathetic attempts at research, people call him out for being a complete retard inventing outright fantasy to prove an imaginary point, and then when he freaks the fuck out and proclaims superiority despite being obviously in the wrong, that is 'weird'???

>>65126368
>easily disproven
Russians themselves online low-key confirm this, yet russia glazers continue to refute it.

>>65126063
It works, it's just not as reliable as they would like and apparently is not meeting performance expectations.
Not a surprise as it's radically different to every other diesel they have worked with so far.

>>65126371
>Russians themselves online low-key confirm this
Russians confirmed that an engine that shares not even the same fucking cylinder-count or angle between banks of cylinders, is a copy of an obscure WW2 German diesel engine?
It's not a copy if there's not even a single similarity.

>>65126375
>when you clone something you have to make it a 1:1 copy
nigga, really?

>>65126371
proofs?

>>65126386
>it's still a copy if there's nothing in common with it
By that logic the M1 Abrams engine is a copy of the fucking GT103 Turbine Engine the Nazis made.

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>>65126389
The best online source of RU patriotic military circle jerk

>>65126375
>>65126391
>>65126368
>doubling down this hard
This is why i come to these thread, to laugh at people like you.

>>65126396
lol, lmao

>>65126396
>>65126399
>Based on
That doesn't mean anything lmao, so what if they decided to make an X-layout engine? You're aware there's X engines before the Sla.16 right?

>>65126404
>That doesn't mean anything
My brown friend, that's how everything was done in USSR. A foreign "example" is chosen as a basis for the new local product, then it's reverse engineered, studied, cloned, often reworking the original to such a degree that it's nowhere even close to a 1:1 copy, and yet it's still based on the originals which were chosen to be copied. Sometimes the changes are just down to the local industry not being able to replicate foreign stuff, a la with the Tu-4 bomber. Sometimes the changes are based on specific local considerations ("we need to change the suspension because our roads suck ass"). Sometimes the changes are down to wanting to make the product cheaper. Sometimes there are genuine engineering considerations of "based on our tests, we'll change this and this to make it better". However, what's interesting is that often these changes would be specifically forbidden by the higher ups because they didn't trust the local engineers, seeing the western product as inherently better. This is btw how USSR ended up cloning western computers, such as DEC's PDP-11 and Intel's x86 architecture.

>>65126408
It literally has nothing in common, you could say any other two engines are copies of each other and be just as accurate.

>>65126375
iirc its two bmp engines grafted together

>>65126411
>It literally has nothing in common
And yet russians themselves disagree

>>65126417
Russians are retarded, why would you take anything they have to say at face value?

>>65126419
Because this is said not as the official position, but as "we're all adults here, we can acknowledge the unpleasant truth" type of shit.

>>65126427
America said they went to the moon, damn I guess they did lmao.

>>65126441
Murricans did in fact went to the moon, are you retarded?

>>65125385
I like his stuff.

He manages a rare and enjoyable blend of; passionate about the subject enough to rant, spells it out clearly and basically, is charismatic in that he can crack bad jokes and say mean things about himself and others that are actually funny, and is actually pretty intelligent and accurate despite it all.

He's not the Chieftan or Forgotten Weapons or Drachinifel.
But for all his "Hurr de durr I'm a fat gay wine-chugging scottish V-tuber" act, he's; got a background in Military Intelligence (not ex-enlisted who pretends to know shit), has been a passionate enthusiast about it for most of his life, references an enormous array of different sources that he cites, consumes information from all sources (and fact checks them for political biases) and posts links to them, considers the sociopolitical scene relevant to his subject, considers the socioeconomic scene relative to his subject, recognizes the human angle and the cult behavior biases people tend to form, isn't afraid to call it out using coarse language, and is perfectly willing to own up when he gets it wrong, if it's demonstrated that he is.

Is he 100% right and accurate on every little detail? No.
But he's pretty consistently in the ballpark of the truth, and even if he's not (mostly due to hyperbole for dramatic effect), generally adds an angle to things other military history basement autists don't.
I've yet to actually see a youtuber that covers the economic, political, and socio-societal influences on military development and capacity as well as he does.
Because those are very real things that have big impacts, but everyone seems to forget about.

>>65126446
Nice try, Pig

>>65126455
I ain't he anon.
He'd never be sincere enough to phrase it like that.

>>65126404
>>65126411
>>65126419
The only thing funnier than your coping is when you look at how russians deal with the "copy" topic, you aren't far off though from what they do.

>>65121349
It did. But mostly post WW2, where there wasn't the same pressure to put them out so fast, and all the things meant to be added were actually added. Chairs, lights and gun sights iirc.

>>65121360
Amusingly, Pig touches on the reason in the OP vid. It's the "quantity" part.
WW2 production T-34's were shitboxes (despite the proper design being high quality), but they made a whole bunch, understanding that 2 out of 10 just wouldn't work and not having the ability to ask why, so if your part breaks, you just nick the part from another tank.

Funny how the PIDF always says he's entertaining and never he's right

>>65121360
they would usually have an extra gearbox strapped to the back so they could change it quickly cause it'd fail quite quickly as a rule. you'll never see this in propaganda reels though, just like most of the lend lease equipment they used

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>>65126483
>Amusingly, Pig touches on the reason in the OP vid. It's the "quantity" part.
Yeah he does but get's stuck on the T-34 performance in 41-43. The years in which the T-34 reliability was absolutely dogshit which shows in the "soviet data"
>Percentage of T-34 reaching 300km during factory trials in Apr 1943 10.1%
In "Once again abou the T-34" by Boris Kavalerchik he mentions that the T-34 sent to the aberdeen proving ground in 1942 broke down and could not be repaired anymore after driving 343 km and this was higher then the typical average figure of 200km. He also mention that some T-34 broke down after driving 30-35km in 1942. The T-34 was supposed to have factory warrenty of 1000km before breakdown but reality showed that was not the case at that time.

However the T-34 reliability did improve due to the industry focusing on better quality control due to complaints of T-34 breaking down way to often, so the number of T-34's that could complete the 300km trials increased and by Feb 44 79% of tanks tested could do it. But this get's dismissed as delusion since "SOVIETS LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING" so it becomes a case of

>Soviet data shows the T-34 was terrible in 1941, 42 and half of 43.
>"Yes this is true, it was expensive, terrible and unreliable due to soviet industry being bad and insane production demands, it was only cheap because cost cuts"
>Soviet data also shows after mid of 43 the T-34 was getting more reliable, cheaper and easier tp produce
>"NO THIS IS ALL LIES, NEVER TRUST SOVIET DATA"
Which is a bit amusing since I have seen translated text of a soviet lend-lease sherman that managed to drive 1500miles and was still 100% operational. A testament of the crew being skilled in maintaining it but also the high quality of american lend-lease equipment.
https://www.tankarchives.com/2015/06/sherman-reliability.html

>>65126535
You need a crane if you want to switch out a broken down gearbox tho?

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Is there any good, approachable book about the Soviet Army in Eastern Europe and the European USSR during the 1980's?

>>65126566
>You need a crane if you want to switch out a broken down gearbox tho?
'Crane' means any odd terrain object that is reasonably tall and likely to hold the winch and whatever it is you want to lift with it

>>65121374
Did your grandpa and dad rape any people like good Soviet soldiers?

>>65126595
Nope. Grandpa was very pro-american due to the war lmao:
- "they've fed us, clothed us, gave us weapons, transport and ammo", also joked that WW2 era american trucks were better than modern soviet cars, also fapped to Studebaker trucks and such;
- "the only reason I'm alive is because americans nuked Japan" - he was on a train already in Manchuria when Japan capitulated, USSR was ready to do a dollar store D-Day to Japan, expecting millions of KIA, he was supposed to participate;
He did tell fucked up stories of some red army soldiers, basically saying that at least a third were some weird barbarians.

Dad was lucky to serve in a semi-elite intelligence-related regiment: no bydlo, no typical dedovshchina shitfest, minimum of lampas-related degenerate crap (by soviet standards), easy access to civilian stuff, since they were not in some desert or siberia, but in Ukraine proper, near actual towns and such, i.e. you could go AWOL if careful and spend some time in the towns nearby, before returning back.

>>65121206
T-34 IS a bad tank, thoughbeit