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3 unusual facts about Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works


Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works

Time, Forward!, a 1965 Soviet film about one day of construction of Magnitka

The Construction employed thousands of manual labourers from all over the Soviet Union.

"The T-34 was a sensation. This 26-ton Russian tank was armed with a 76.2 mm gun shells that pierced the armor of German tanks with a 1.5 - 2 thousand meters, at the same time when the German tanks could punch Russian with a maximum range of 500 meters, and then only in when the shells fell in the vehicle or the rear part of the T - 34" - Connoisseur of military equipment German General Erich Schneider.



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