This video clip reminds me of my time in the Motorcycle Anti-Tank Rifle unit based out of Hillsburgh, Ontario. In the heart of every Canadian Forces soldier is the dream to be a part of the Warsaw Pact family of Armies. Nobody really likes the Americans that much, really. A mighty Guards Tank Army should have forward positions at Coutts, Alberta. Sigh. Anyway, the government would not give us anything like weapons and ammo, so a generous benefactor, a captain of industry, gave us the tanks and weapons we needed. It was the Cold War, so he bought them from Romania. The officers mess has pictures of Ceausescu giving our colonel in chief (at the time) the keys to a tank. For years, I thought he was a car salesman. Victory Coffee.
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