Why didn't the Red Army like trophy vehicles?

Опубликовано: 01 Январь 1970
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Why didn't the Red Army like trophy vehicles?
It would not be wrong to say that during the Second World War the Red Army lacked trucks no less than any other equipment. Therefore, the trophy cars captured from the enemy, immediately went into business. However, the operation of such equipment was not so simple. Here is what one of the frontline drivers recalled in his memoirs: “Other vehicles were given to replace the broken ones. As a rule, old stuff. If we got a company “Studebaker”, it was a holiday. Most of them were old semi-trucks and ZIS 5. Occasionally trophy cars: German, French, Italian. There was enough trouble with them too. Sometimes we didn't know what to put in them. Pour our regular gasoline, they wouldn't pull. If you dilute it with aviation gasoline, they go well, but they get warm. A breakdown of a “foreign car” required special repairs. But if domestic cars were most often restored, then “Fiats”, “Opel-Blitz”, “Renault” remained on the roadside. There were no spare parts.
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