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Post subject:  Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:32 am |
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I've heard rumour of it, but never seen any evidence to support it - and thats both during the GPW and also throughout the Cold War period!
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Semyon
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Post subject: Re: PX Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:44 pm |
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Comrade Coffin wrote: There was supposd to be an equivalent of the PX/NAAFI- but with all things Soviet it is difficult to assess how widespread & well organised it would have been- Fraser talked to me about it once- maybe worth pm-ing him about it to get some literary references- I'll trawl through some more memoires & see if any refer to this.
There's info on this in Catherine Merridale's Ivan's War. I think there's even a related photo.
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Post subject: Re: PX Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:22 pm |
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Semyon wrote: Comrade Coffin wrote: There was supposd to be an equivalent of the PX/NAAFI- but with all things Soviet it is difficult to assess how widespread & well organised it would have been- Fraser talked to me about it once- maybe worth pm-ing him about it to get some literary references- I'll trawl through some more memoires & see if any refer to this. There's info on this in Catherine Merridale's Ivan's War. I think there's even a related photo. Page 144 - mobile front-line tea shops, 43 deployed by August 1943.
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Kozlov
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:03 pm |
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Were they amphibious? I can see them crossing en masse under fire across the Dnepr 
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Semyon
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:47 am |
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The armoured assault version of the mobile tea-shop wasn't deployed until spring 1945, long after Dnepr crossing 
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Post subject: Manchuria Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:22 pm |
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I understand that airborne canteen & bar facilities were dropped in at key startegic locations during operation August Storm, to ensure that the rapidly advancing Soviet Heroes would be assured of a good glass of Narkom's and bowl of Shchi after a hard day of Jap bashing. Apparently Fraser has an original menu from one of these facilities.
I'm begining to think that this thread has run it's course, and degenerated into silliness. It's all Kozlov's fault.
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Helmut
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:56 am |
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No milk today, due to Failure to Achieve Production Norms!
So Russian Tea was invented. _________________ 8./Kompanie Infanterie-Regiment Gro�deutschland (mot)
" Regimenter sterben zehnmahl, aber es bleibt....das Regiment."
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Post subject: Re: Manchuria Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:10 am |
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Comrade Coffin wrote: I'm begining to think that this thread has run it's course, and degenerated into silliness. It's all Kozlov's fault. Then I can see I have achieved my quota and can now rest for an hour before starting my work again! 
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