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Why is the sign in German ?
guess this pic was taken in the soviet occupied zone or in the GDR, or enywhere else where the GDR socialist party was invited to
But T-28s were well out of service by then? :S
Could have kept some around for propaganda purposes, or it may be a anti-partisan or garrison unit, since those sometimes kept tanks in use far longer than the regular military.
This was the best description I could find.
"Tanks T-28 pass through Red Square. November 7, 1939."
Gotta be something to do with the Soviet-Nazi pact.
My bet is that this photograph was taken in the early 1930s when the Russians and the Germans were still buddies.
They were always very much at odds ideologically even while they were military allies, so it seems a bit of a stretch for the German's to have allowed any type of parade by the Soviets.
The photograph is obviously taken in the Soviet Union, most likely Red Square since I'm pretty sure that's GUM in the background. Since the Soviets still had an international ideological reasoning back then, they printed slogans in many different languages, as seen here with German and French (left) next to the native Russian.
This is Red Square. Photo is taken before the Great Patriotic War. Inscription on the banners says: "Workers of the world, unite!" - slogan of the 3rd Communist International. Inscriptions in german says the same. And the one on the left, in spanish ("proletarios de todos los paises unios!" if my eyes do not deceive me) says the same. So this has nothing to do with soviet-german pact, but with ideals of the Komintern.
it was infact a rally for the Komintern and was taken around the time of the signing of the german soviet nonaggression pact