Soviet troops deploy a 76mm gun in the ruins of the Red October plant in Stalingrad, Dec 10, 1942.

Because of the restrictions imposed on the Germans by the Treaty of Versailles, they were forbidden to build new tanks. The shaky Weimar government was only too willing to toe the line, so in 1930 the Provisional Reichswehr took matters into their own hands. They actually made a clandestine deal to buy tanks from the Soviets. This picture shows Russian […]