Pranksters Start Up Vintage WW2 Tank On Monument

[sferrin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSVoPYbveE

 

[Arian]

Hardly pranksters. This is from Ukraine and those are Donetsk rebels who took the monument tank and tried to put it back into service. It didn't go very far since the gun was not operational. The tank was eventually captured by Ukrainian forces and taken to Kiev

 

[Rickshaw]

he tank in question was atop a memorial in Kostiantynivka, an industrial city in eastern Ukraine, when two jokers who were both mechanics clambered aboard and began poking about inside.

Built in 1943, retired in 1945, and placed on the pedestal in 1994, the mighty diesel engine stunned the mechanics when it roared into life after they played around with it. The tank's engine did not need electricity to start and only needed compressed air to get it going.

'No-one was more surprised then me when she kicked into life,' said Dimitry Koskalovin, 23, who clambered into the tank with his pal Mikhail Stakavan, 22.

'We let it rip for a few minutes and then did a runner. We never meant to pinch it or anything.'

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[Rickshaw]

Inspired perhaps by this:

DEMONSTRATORS drove a Second World War tank at police firing rubber bullets and tear gas yesterday during an anti- government protest in Budapest on the 50th anniversary of Hungary's uprising against Soviet rule.

As police pushed the crowd of about 1,000 away from the square outside the parliament building, protesters seized the T-34 tank used as an exhibit to commemorate the Hungarian uprising and drove it towards police lines. "The whole crowd started cheering. The police started firing tear gas, then the tank stopped," said Fedja Grulovic, a cameraman.

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