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Offline oakranger

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Panzer Relics in Bulgaria
« on: April 22, 2011, 03:26:36 PM »
This is interesting reading. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfR-iDufq8Y&feature=related

In the dark days of the Cold War, communist Bulgaria fortified its border with Turkey, which was a member of the rival NATO alliance, by embedding scores of Soviet and Nazi tanks in a network of concrete bunkers.
The bunkers have been abandoned for years.
In 2004, Bulgaria joined NATO. The old German panzers were left rusting and all but forgotten. Many of them fell prey to scrap metal hunters, who, in many cases, have left little but the chassis of a tank intact.
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Re: Panzer Relics in Bulgaria
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 05:43:41 PM »
Hmmm, interesting, I'll have to watch it with audio at home.  My brother's best friends from college are currently serving in the Peace Core in Bulgaria and he just got back from visiting them last Sunday.
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Re: Panzer Relics in Bulgaria
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 06:11:56 PM »
What a shame to leave them there and dissapear  :cry

Would be nice to get them dug up and machined back into static displays but it would cost major money to do it.
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Re: Panzer Relics in Bulgaria
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2011, 09:11:26 PM »
Think they have been auctioning them off to the highest bidder.
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Re: Panzer Relics in Bulgaria
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2011, 09:38:53 PM »
I remember reading about this.  Parts of central and eastern Europe was having a drought and many rivers became low.  People been finding German tanks, as well as other GVs from Russia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ccLlJ67MCg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lf7-0bb0S0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WJ11T4Ma8&feature=related

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