60buick
Munifex
Captured Tiger II
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Post by 60buick on Feb 14, 2009 16:30:23 GMT -5
We have been painting them wrong.   |
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Post by tassguru on Mar 13, 2009 16:58:29 GMT -5
haha
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Post by prettykitty505 on Mar 20, 2009 15:54:13 GMT -5
I love it and I have open toe heels this color oh...oh great now Warren is laughing at me because I didn't know this was a joke...  |
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Post by scoutsout on Mar 21, 2009 0:08:56 GMT -5
An interesting note on this particular tank and why it was painted pink:
The monument was intended to represent Lt I.G. Goncharenko's T-34-85 medium tank of the 63rd Guards Tank Brigade, 10th Guards Tank Corps, the first Soviet tank to enter Prague in May 1945 and subsequently knocked out in the street fighting. Unfortunately, the actual monument bore an IS-2m heavy tank instead of the famous T-34, with its turret mislabelled 23 (Goncharenko's tank had actually borne the tactical marking I-24).
After the 1989 Velvet revolution and the abolition of censorship, the legacy of the tank was openly discussed. For many citizens, the tank symbolised the Soviet invasion that ended the Prague Spring in 1968 and the following permanent deployment of Soviet military units, rather than the events in World War II—a popular local legend was that the number 23 painted on the tank's turret foresaw the Soviet invasion (1945 + 23 = 1968). In February 1991, historian Pavel Bìlina noted that there were "neither moral nor historical grounds" for preserving the monument.
On the night from 27 to 28 April 1991, art student David Èerný with his friends painted the tank pink and erected a huge finger in an obscene gesture on its turret roof, signing their work "David Èerný and the Neostunners". Èerný was arrested under an often-abused law concerning "public disturbances", and after an official protest by the Russian government, the tank was re-painted green. However, fifteen members of the newly elected parliament took advantage of their official immunity and re-painted the tank pink in protest against the arrest. The national monument status was abolished, Èerný released, and the tank removed. The tank is currently located in Military museum Lešany.
On 17 October 2002, a fountain "Propadlištì èasu" was installed on the spot. The spurting water should have purified everything and let the people forget. However, the people did not forget. In 2004, a CowParade was held in Prague. One of the fiberglass cows was painted khaki and provided with five-pointed red stars and white numbers 23 on both flanks, with the intention to paint it publicly pink later on. The cow was vandalised, and the happening did not take place.
On 8 May 2005, when the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War was celebrated, Communist party leader Miroslav Grebeníèek organised a gathering there. His supporters, mostly pensioners, put lilacs on the spot of the former monument and sung The Internationale.
On 21 August 2008 the pink hull of a tank by David Èerný was illegaly installed on the spot. It has a white invasion stripe, the same as Soviet tanks that entered Czechoslovakia in 1968. According to Èerný, the statue should draw attention to contemporary politics of Russia.
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