[Movie] 19 year old soviet gunner destroyed 8 Tiger tanks.

[Gopblin]

Originally Posted by Nikita

Not sure if this photo is real or not, but if so, that is a one in a million shot.

"A gripping image of the war. Location: Somewhere in Russia. Russian soldiers wait as German soldiers and tanks approach them."



It is odd that both the Russians and the Germans have not taken cover behind anything solid...

Looks like a staged photo. At that range, you could hit a matchbox with a bolt-action. Unless both sides agreed not to use firearms, this shouldn't happen.

Best wishes,
Daniel

[Avtomat]

Originally Posted by Nikita

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Definitely staged. Those russians are just sitting there waiting for 20+ germans and 2 tanks to run them over. They are so bunched up that a single HE round from that PzIVF2 would kill them all.
And the hull Mg would be mowing them already...

[PRAPOR]

This photo 100 percent maked from two pictures. Didnt need even speek about it.

[[Mad_Murdock]]

Is that how its done?

Because the range is definitely way too close to be realistic. But I thought they woud just pose a couple of tanks.

Thats interesting though, like two photos spliced together?

[ross]

Yes. Photoshop looks like child's play compared to some of the doctoring done back in the days of actual negatives, there was a real artistry to it. It was quite a thing during Stalin's reign - editing whole people out of photographs was not all that rare, either for political reasons or to improve artistic composition, depending on what the subject matter of the photo was.

[Kugyi]

I guess it was staged using captured German stuff. Or just edited: