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Originally Posted by Owen D  I love looking at pictures from behind the old Iron Curtain.
Thanks for these.
If you haven't seen them there are some Then & Now photos on my Budapest thread. <<
I also like the idea of getting a bigger house with a bigger family. It would be cheaper than buying bigger house in England.
When did you drive the BMP-1 ? Were you in Russian Army?
Visiting your area is it easy to follow the battles using WW2 maps and finding the actual places on the ground today.
Has the landscape changed much? |
Ok, i've bookmarked ur topic
I was in army partially (hehe
) - i don't know is there analog in western countries, but here in university or institute u can attend a military department (if its exist in university), after 2 years u get lieutenant and contract with army for 2 years. After graduating university there is a chance to go to army around 50%
. Anyway at the end of military deparment graduation every students goes to training assembly at nearest military fort
for 2 weeks where they shooting from every infantry arms (o yeah Dragunov is amazing thing), driving IFV etc. After this u swear an oath an get a lieutenant. So after university u got 2 graduations - civilian and military
But percent of students with this military graduation is low
- not everyone wants to go to army after unversity.
however this is an offtopic.
Yes, as far as i know, landscapes everywhere changed, because mainly soviet government have tried to erase trails of bloody fights, arranging museums and memorials at places of hard fights. U need modern maps
However, mostly, using old WW2 maps, u can find what u want but it will be very hard