# Video of Russian light tank pulled from the mud **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471 "2015-09-09T22:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/1 "2015-09-09T22:39:47Z")
It’s an old video, though I hadn’t seen it before, but thought I’d [share](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNcvlToTW-A). I often wonder if, 10,000 years from now some future human civilization might find one of these things under the mud in the same way we find mammoths occasionally. And what they might think of them. Cools part, I though, was that after all these years the thing still rolled on it’s tracks, seemingly as if it fell into the mud yesterday. I’ve seen some abandoned tanks from WWII before in various countries, but they are usually rusted hulks that you couldn’t move unless you dropped them off a cliff, especially if they haven’t been touched since the war. These tank in Russian bogs though seem almost untouched by time. Anyway, like I said, thought I’d share. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/2 "2015-09-10T00:05:11Z")
Cool! Now if it had been on top of a train full of Nazi gold -------- 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/3 "2015-09-10T00:47:49Z")
Interestingly, it started right up when they replaced the battery and immediately attacked Donetsk. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/4 "2015-09-10T01:04:00Z")
I’m impressed the treads still turn. I’da thought they would be rusted and seized into a solid mass. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/5 "2015-09-10T01:06:30Z")
Nice. I really loved Russian WWII tanks when I was about 11, with plastic kits etc… Then I grew out of it. But… they are really pretty… ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/6 "2015-09-10T01:17:18Z")
Suspension seems to be ‘working’ too. Sort of surprised 2 dozers could do it. I would have stayed way away from that tow cable. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/7 "2015-09-10T01:34:13Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Cool! Now if it had been on top of a train full of Nazi gold -------- 🙂 > **[World War II: The Holocaust](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/)** > > Part 18 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II This is how the Nazi got all that gold ! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/8 "2015-09-10T02:23:07Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > [World War II: The Holocaust - The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/) > > This is how the Nazi got all that gold ! Given your participation in both threads I would have thought you realized the reference was to > **[Train reported found in Poland with WW2 era Gold et al](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=765640)** > > So some folks are claiming that they found a train in Poland, with WW2 era looted treasure’s. Speculation seems to be focusing on Gold and Art, the folks that came forward, are requesting a 10 percent finders fee, which the authorities seem to be... Doesn’t mean your point wasn’t worth the effort but I figured it made more sense in context. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/9 "2015-09-10T03:27:09Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > I’m impressed the treads still turn. I’da thought they would be rusted and seized into a solid mass. IIRC, bogs have an extremely low oxygen content. That’s why we get stories of well preserved natural mummies being recovered from peat bogs. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/10 "2015-09-10T04:13:40Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > I would have stayed way away from that tow cable. I was thinking the same thing. That thing snaps, it’s boggy nappy time. I guess that kind of recklessness is how you end up with Yeltsin. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/11 "2015-09-10T07:58:27Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Suspension seems to be ‘working’ too. Sort of surprised 2 dozers could do it. I would have stayed way away from that tow cable. The gun turret traverse and elevation was also working right out of the bog, one may even say that thing was built like a tank… Never mind staying away from the tow cable, how about clearing the area as that guy casually piles up 60 year old ammunition? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/12 "2015-09-10T11:31:22Z")
The video is from 2001. Given 14 years have past, I wonder if its fully restored today? ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/13 "2015-09-10T12:11:45Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > The video is from 2001. Given 14 years have past, I wonder if its fully restored today? And, what was the story? Why did they decide to take the time and expense to retrieve this particular tank. I could see if was a classic car or something, but is there not already an extant surplus of decrepit old tanks? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/14 "2015-09-10T12:47:31Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Suspension seems to be ‘working’ too. Sort of surprised 2 dozers could do it. I would have stayed way away from that tow cable. I had the same thought; two dozers pulling so hard they are both slipping their treads? I ain’t going anywhere near that cable. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/15 "2015-09-10T12:54:40Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > And, what was the story? Why did they decide to take the time and expense to retrieve this particular tank. I could see if was a classic car or something, but is there not already an extant surplus of decrepit old tanks? From WW II not as many as you would think; and especially not in totally original condition. Much was scrapped to make the next generation of tanks and many were updated along the way. A large part were also sold off to small nations that didn’t have the ability to maintain them as well. Support vehicles you can find sometimes but battle tanks are another story. As someone said earlier, gutted or rusted hulks you can find easy but something worth putting back into functioning condition is pretty rare. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/16 "2015-09-10T13:14:39Z")
Actually, only the second bulldozer was slipping its treads. The front driver knew how to do slow-and-steady. They’d have gotten it out a lot quicker if the second driver had known what he was doing, too. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/17 "2015-09-10T14:42:22Z")
Huh. On the one hand, a Soviet tank which was obsolete even for its time, with a rather light gun and a horrible one-man turret, and yet on the other hand there turns out to be a [documented case](http://albumwar2.com/panther-destroyed-by-russian-light-tank-t-70/) of one of these little terrors killing a Panzer V! > [@](#): > > Lieutenant A. Pegov was promoted to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union , although he had to spend the rest of his life in the tank as his balls were several sizes too large to fit through the hatch. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/18 "2015-09-10T14:49:23Z")
As a T-70, it’s a [tiny little tank](http://orig08.deviantart.net/2ac9/f/2013/054/2/a/t_70_light_tank_by_wormwoodthestar-d5vy2cv.jpg). At 9.2 tonnes and 4.29 m in length it’s a lot smaller than the Soviet T-34 medium tank (26.5 tonnes/6.68 m length) and is dwarfed by the largest operational tank of the war, the German Tiger II (68.5 tonnes/7.38 m). One would have no problem getting it into a parking space if using it to go to the shops. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/19 "2015-09-10T20:44:11Z")
I was hoping the first sentence in the OP was “…with a Ford truck!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/video-of-russian-light-tank-pulled-from-the-mud/730471/20 "2015-09-10T20:50:21Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > As a T-70, it’s a [tiny little tank](http://orig08.deviantart.net/2ac9/f/2013/054/2/a/t_70_light_tank_by_wormwoodthestar-d5vy2cv.jpg). At 9.2 tonnes and 4.29 m in length it’s a lot smaller than the Soviet T-34 medium tank (26.5 tonnes/6.68 m length) and is dwarfed by the largest operational tank of the war, the German Tiger II (68.5 tonnes/7.38 m). One would have no problem getting it into a parking space if using it to go to the shops. Aw, who’s a widdle tanky wanky, who’s a tanky, gimme your turret _scratch scratch scratch_