It was just the Russians "getting even" in their mind for 4 years of the most brutal land combat ever to have taken place in the history of warfare.


You think Iraq is bad? Its a hardly worth reporting minor skirmish compared to what happened on the eastern front.

Kursk is a very interesting battle among many.

Unlike what American and British tankers were used to, at Kursk their was so much armor in some sectors, and both sides were unwilling to back down that armor formations literally ran into and rammed each other. Throw an SS armor brigade and an angry Russian army at each other and not one slows down, 25mph collisions between T34's and Panzer 4's, Tigers, etc. Than when they collide you have a very confused mass of tanks mixed among each other and no one really knows what is what. But you get things like Tigers running into T34's at literally point blank and opening up. Or in the case of one Russian tank commander, getting blown out of his tank, and than after landing finding himself alongside another T34 which he boards and continues the fight in.

Compare that to when we shot up the Republican guard tanks, ha that's nothing.

So I can see why the Russians were a bit angry.

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