Other reasons to celebrate collapse of Soviet Union

World War II tanks recovered from rivers and swamps.

Valentine tank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxcxQ9IUg0

Russian T70: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNcvlToTW-A

Russian KV1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2vmMpHjXA

T34 w/German markings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXCf2RzJ8Fc

STuG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-UrieZwqeg

More on the German T34: http://www.rense.com/general75/germ2.htm

Would the USSR have allowed recovery of all these tanks and others? It didn’t.

Cleaning out tanks: Machine gun ammunition, check. Main gun rounds, check. Frag hand grenades. ... Wait. What?