How Soviet People Built Tanks and Planes on Own Savings

How Soviet People Built Tanks and Planes on Own Savings

At our Telegram channel we re-told the story of Mariya Oktyabrskaya (https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/10265), who bought and piloted a tank during WWII. While it was relatively unique that she became the tank driver of her own tank, buying weapons for the army using own savings was a mass phenomenon.

According to the large Soviet encyclopedia, in total, 2,500 combat aircraft, thousands of tanks, 16 boats and 8 submarines were built on the donations the Soviet people. According to historians' calculations, the citizens of the USSR fully paid a year's worth of the army upkeep during the war.

The mini-documentary from NTV tells of some of these people and their donated machines.

Video source - NTV https://www.ntv.ru/video/2409844

Beorn's Beehive blog post: https://stanislavs.org/how-soviet-people-built-tanks-and-planes-on-own-savings/