Some topics roll on forever and never die... this is (probably) not one of them!We went for a wander past some wind turbines, into what is now a nature reserve but which had once been used by the Soviets as a training ground during the cold war. As you can see they left quite a bit of garbage behind!All this stuff was just lying on the surface, or half buried in sand. These spent cartridges are huge - the orange Pioneer should give some sense of scale - so I imagine they were anti-tank rounds (?)The orange lanyard comes from a Lindt chocolate lamb which survived Easter only to be eaten yesterday. There's a bell on there too, which is bloody annoying!
Quote from: Thunderpants on April 09, 2018, 01:08:21 AMSome topics roll on forever and never die... this is (probably) not one of them!We went for a wander past some wind turbines, into what is now a nature reserve but which had once been used by the Soviets as a training ground during the cold war. As you can see they left quite a bit of garbage behind!All this stuff was just lying on the surface, or half buried in sand. These spent cartridges are huge - the orange Pioneer should give some sense of scale - so I imagine they were anti-tank rounds (?)The orange lanyard comes from a Lindt chocolate lamb which survived Easter only to be eaten yesterday. There's a bell on there too, which is bloody annoying!Pssst...!You might want to reconsider the name of this thread... That's looking more like a RPG-7, not a Panzerfaust... (Sorry, can't help it, I'm a nerd when it comes to these things... occupational hazard...
I'm sure Thunderpants already knows that...
Quote from: Fuzzbucket on April 09, 2018, 12:33:33 PMI'm sure Thunderpants already knows that...I wouldn't be so sure! I thought RPG was something to do with Dungeons and Dragons...
Does anyone speak Russian?I'd love to know what this graffiti means if any of it is legible...
Quote from: Thunderpants on April 09, 2018, 12:40:01 PMDoes anyone speak Russian?I'd love to know what this graffiti means if any of it is legible...I'll ask my sister.She's a english-russian translator.
Well it's not Welsh!It could be Bulgarian, I suppose - it could also be a bunch of weird names and terribly rude words which your sister wouldn't know about. Who knows!The numbers are probably just the dates when these poor old conscripts were stuck in East Germany.
It could also be Kazakh...
well, not an artillery shell or anti-tank rocket, but these are my hard-earned bullets and ammo obtained all in a non-gun country, through research and contacts...quite a feat that has taken me years (Image removed from quote.)
The graffiti are written in Russian Cyrillic.Most of this graffiti are Soviet Asian and Caucasian names ("Мухаммадиев Хужамурод" -- "Mukhammadiev Khuzhamurod", "Ваха" -- "Vakha", etc.), two are the soldiers' hometowns names ("Ереван" -- "Yerevan", the capital of Armenia; "Грозный" -- "Grozny", the capital of Chechnya)."ДМБ 87-89". "DMB" stands for demobilisation; the person who wrote it served in the Soviet Army in 1987-1989.
Quote from: Nick4 on April 10, 2018, 12:35:19 PMThe graffiti are written in Russian Cyrillic.Most of this graffiti are Soviet Asian and Caucasian names ("Мухаммадиев Хужамурод" -- "Mukhammadiev Khuzhamurod", "Ваха" -- "Vakha", etc.), two are the soldiers' hometowns names ("Ереван" -- "Yerevan", the capital of Armenia; "Грозный" -- "Grozny", the capital of Chechnya)."ДМБ 87-89". "DMB" stands for demobilisation; the person who wrote it served in the Soviet Army in 1987-1989.Awesome! Thanks for making sense of those scribbles!
These two are just a tad older...
Quote from: Fuzzbucket on April 11, 2018, 11:53:20 AMThese two are just a tad older...Imagine getting one of them in your head. Ouch!
Quote from: Thunderpants on April 11, 2018, 11:51:12 AMAwesome! Thanks for making sense of those scribbles!+1, I missed that, excellent job - good man!!!
Awesome! Thanks for making sense of those scribbles!
Quote from: Thunderpants on April 11, 2018, 11:57:26 AMQuote from: Fuzzbucket on April 11, 2018, 11:53:20 AMThese two are just a tad older...Imagine getting one of them in your head. Ouch!At least these two missed!They're from Spotsylvania 1864