Did one single KV2 tank really stop a whole panzer division for a week?
Couldn't they just throw a smoke grenade, get close and then throw a blanket over it? They really need a week?
Did one single KV2 tank really stop a whole panzer division for a week?
>he actually believes Soviet propaganda
I don't think it was just propaganda but I'm too lazy to get my Wikipedia now
It gets cited in western stuff all the time dude.
that doesn't mean jack shit dude
the whole fricking reason the t34 foundational myth bullshit came to being was because lazy historians copy-pasted soviet propaganda about muh great patriotic war
"The 6th Panzer Division Kampfgruppe commander, General Erhard Raus, described it as a KV-1"
The unit CO himself confirmed the encounter.
>t34 foundational myth bullshit
wehrboo detected
I am the farthest thing from a wehraboo you stupid gay Black person. The communists have used every angle possible to poison discussions of WW2, pretending only the Axis powers did propaganda is painfully ignorant
>lazy historians
It's also the fact that a lot of academia leans ideologically left with all the horrible consequences
The West also fell for the Schicklgruber hoax.
THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE ON THE EASTERN FRONT WAS MOSTLY WRITTEN BY THE GERMANS
Soviet archives and accounts weren't available during the cold war, so practically all of the first hand sources we had were from the fricking Nazis. A lot of that pile is literally composed of their own fricking post-hoc memoirs, with the narrative not uncommonly excusing their performance and actions. A lot of this lingers, as only more recently have these sources been compared and re-evaluated in context with Soviet-era material and primary sources. You know, actual documents, maps, and unit field-diaries.Unfortunately, even that limited progress has kinda been cut fricking short due to the events of the past decade, spanning from Georgia to Ukraine.
You need to ask yourself if a kv2 could have fit a week of water for the crew let alone a weeks worth of ammunition
Apparently it stopped a battalion from advancing for a day and took out 4 anti-tank guns and 1 flak 88. Engineers snuck up on it in the night and planted charges on it but only took out the tracks. The next day, infantry rushed the tank and threw frags in it, killing the crew and then buried them.
>Did one single KV2 tank really stop a whole panzer division for a week?
No. It took a bit for Germans to figure out how to deal with KVs but afterwards they were just worse T34s.
>throw a blanket on it
will that put it to sleep?
What good is a tank if it can't see anything?
>Did one single KV2 tank really stop a whole panzer division for a week?
Highly doubtful. It doesn't carry enough fuel, ammo, or food for that.
However I do remember reading about one that held up a column for most of a day and taking ~80 non-penetrating hits in the process.
"A single KV-1 or KV-2 tank (accounts vary) advanced far behind the German lines after attacking a column of German supply trucks. The tank stopped on a road across soft ground and was engaged by four 50 mm anti-tank guns of the 6th Panzer Division's anti-tank battalion. The tank was hit several times but fired back and destroyed all four enemy AT guns. An 8.8cm FlaK of the divisional anti-aircraft battalion was moved about 730 m (800 yd) behind the lone Soviet tank but was knocked out by the tank before it could manage to score a hit. During the night, German combat engineers tried to destroy the tank with satchel charges but failed despite possibly damaging the vehicle's tracks. Early on the morning of June 25, German tanks fired on the KV from the nearby woodland while another 8.8cm FlaK fired at the tank from its rear. Of several shots fired, only two managed to penetrate the tank. German infantry then advanced towards the KV tank and it responded with machine-gun fire against them. Eventually, the tank was knocked out by grenades thrown into the hatches."
Did they have to make it so breathtakingly ugly? That''s not a turret, more like a tumor.
I heard it was a month