Ask a Russian engineer to design you a shoe, and he'll give you something that looks like the box the shoe came in. Ask him to design something that will slaughter Germans, and he turns into Thomas fucking Edison.~ Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
A T-34 was submerged in a lake for 56 years. Some plucky Estonians
pulled it out. Everything was in working order except the engine.
Give the Soviets their due - they
make made really rugged killing machines.