How Soviet tanks ended up in the Finnish army: a story about the T-28

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How Soviet tanks ended up in the Finnish army: a story about the T-28

One of those tanks, which had a very ambiguous fate, can be considered the Soviet T-28. This is a 25-ton three-tower combat vehicle, which belonged to the breakthrough tanks.

Produced in the USSR in the pre-war period - from 1933 to 1940. The completion of the operation of the T-28 tanks in the Soviet troops dates back to 1944, but there was a country where these tanks continued to carry out the tasks assigned by the command to the crews until the early 1950s. And this country was Finland.



How did these tanks end up on the territory of a state with which the USSR was at war - first during the Soviet-Finnish war, and then during the Great Patriotic War? The answer is simple: T-28 tanks were captured for the Finns. Sources say that in total, the Finnish tankers got 12 Soviet armored vehicles, some of which they slightly modified, based on their own considerations.

Historians are still arguing about whether the T-28 was among those Soviet tanks that were captured by the Germans during the Second World War. On this score, the answer is given by images with the symbols of Nazi Germany on Soviet tanks. At the same time, it is assumed that we are talking about only one T-28 tank, which was at the disposal of the German troops.

The Diodand channel tells about the T-28, including the trophy tank that the Finns have. The author notes that "the Finns appreciated this tank, as they encountered it for the first time during the Winter War." The judgment is somewhat controversial, since the Finns at that time had to value any tank, because their own industry for creating suitable armored vehicles in Finland simply did not exist.

The article tells about how Soviet tanks ended up in the Finnish army, how the Finns commissioned Soviet tanks, how they were exploited, why the T-28 was called the "Post Train".

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  1. +12
    18 March 2021 23: 47
    Give me a text version!
  2. +2
    19 March 2021 18: 54
    "By mail train"

    postivaunu is a mail car, not a train.
  3. +1
    19 March 2021 19: 36
    So almost all the tanks of the Finnish army were trophies.
    Before the Winter War, they had a couple of dozen Vickers (brother of the T-26).
    But after the Winter War - a solid fleet of tanks from the Red Army.
    The Finns had special groups to capture tanks intact or
    slightly damaged.
  4. 0
    19 March 2021 22: 17
    8 SB-2 managed to capture and even suppress the Soviet landing by them in 44
    1. +1
      21 March 2021 20: 02
      If the plane has made an emergency landing and is repairable, then why not restore it?))
    2. 0
      April 17 2021 07: 30
      I wonder what kind of SB-2 plane?
  5. 0
    April 17 2021 07: 27
    Tanks trophies of the winter war is the tragedy of the 24th motorized division, which, without proper infantry escort, was thrown to the rescue of the sixth that was surrounded - when moving along the Raat road in violation of the charter (without lateral security), the Finns cut off the escort equipment (fuel trucks and trucks with shells), the tanks were left not blown up - the authorities fled for help (everyone was shot except the intendant, he had a shaggy hand in the GPU (main political department of the army)

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