Soviet exhibition of captured German weapons

[BenVK]

Stumbled upon this video today, an amazing assortment of weapons, especially aircraft, all assembled in Moscow. I doubt the date is 1943 though, must have been just after the war ended as part of the victory celebrations IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9so...qmy9dA&index=2

[IanC]

Fascinating.

Thanks for posting it.

[k9mike]

damn, did you see that whole row of ME-109's??? Sweet....I have not seen anything that looked like it was post 1943 equipment...so, maybe it was 1943
all the 109s were F or early G models...

[kammo man]

Thats how to collect .


owen

[AndyC]

Lot of crosses here, looks like both EK 2s and RKs



Andy

[Jesse]

One of the best things I have seen, thanks for showing this
I would really love to know exactly when it was made.

The damage on the Tiger!

[Tora_Tora_Tora!]

Great Video!
Thanks!

[Mainemilitaria]

Gives the date... something "1943" on the Sign... can't read the rest but the year is plain... in the beginning of the clip.

Great display... wonder where it all is now.
John G.

[kyles bullets]

Where have all these aircraft and such gone? Cool video!

[Kelly w]

Nice, I wonder where it all is today.

[Mark Gibson]

Nice, I wonder where it all is today.

It either went into museums or scrapped.

Mark

[Kelly w]

OR private collections. YEs they probably scrapped most of it to build "the bomb" in the 50's lol.

[Tom B]

OR private collections. YEs they probably scrapped most of it to build "the bomb" in the 50's lol.

Yes, I agree Tom

[FrenchVolunteer]

Hi,

courtesy of historian Oleg Beyda, here are the correct infos about the exhibition :

"Выставка образцов трофейного вооружения" ("captured weaponry samples exhibition") opened on June 22, 1943 and closed on October 1, 1948 in the Gorky Park, Moscow.
More than 7.5 millions of people visited it.
The project of the exhibition's creation was signed on April 13, 1943.
The head of the project was Major-General Ivanov.

See You

Vince

[Woolgar]

Those girls walking around don't look like war weary Soviets they more like All American girls from the '50's !

Awesome footage though

Nick