Beloved by Stalin. 2nd Guards Tank Army in battle
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According to Stalin himself, until the spring of 1945 he considered the best of the best 1st Guards tank army, but after the storming of the Zeelian heights and the capture of Berlin gave the championship of the 2nd Guards Tank. It was this army before all received the latest heavy tanks "Joseph Stalin" IS-3, first shown by allies on a victorious parade in Berlin. It was about the 2nd gta Marshal Rokossovsky said that its brilliant operations became an example of the classical use of tank and mechanized compounds of the Red Army ". The second tank has passed with battles of 6000 km, freed 3730 settlements, including 49 major cities. The second tank hooked the elite divisions of the Wehrmacht and the SS "Great Germany", "Leibstandart Adolf Hitler", "Dead Head", "Viking", 505th and 506th heavy tank battalions "tigers". The second tank beat all the "records" of Hitler"s Blitzkrieg, just 15 days over 700 km from Vistula to Oder. The second tank first broke into Berlin to put a victorious point in the Great Patriotic War. This fundamental work, based on materials not only by Soviet, but also German archives, is the most complete, informative and objective study of the battle path of the beloved Tank Army Stalin