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Well gentlemen, if you are ever at a protest near a war memorial or a museum, I can heartily recommend this Hungarian
approach from the their 2006 protests. Break Out the Museum Piece in style.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Bad. Ass. But where did they find the fuel for that relic? Forget that, who the hell thought it was a good idea to leave the engine inside it?! ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
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They probably siphoned diesel or petrol from parked cars. You push a tube into the fuel tank, and create a flow by sucking on it and then let gravity do the rest. Don't use this power for evil, or fuck it up and swallow petrol, because that isn't fun. That might explain why it didn't get very far; tanks are lucky to get more 1mpg (the US M1 Abrams manages less than half that - because it's jet powered) and you probably couldn't get much fuel. They may also have tried to use petrol to power it, which would work for a while, but still break down.
You know what else is Badass? The guy driving it was apparently a Cool Old Guy veteran of the 1956 revolution, where anti-communist Hungarian students and protesters managed not only to bring down their own government, but kill 700 of the Soviet soldiers sent to stop them, and hijack Russian tanks. Bad. Fucking. Ass.
edited 3rd Mar '14 6:42:24 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
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You do know: In 1956, protesters drove a T-54 into the grounds of the British Embassy — the data gathered from that led to the adoption of the L7 105mm tank gun.
edited 3rd Mar '14 8:04:39 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On
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Oh my god that is perfect.
"Comrade Zhukov, what does the scouter say about the Hungarians' trolling level?"
"It's over 9000!"
Scandinavia and the World on the Hungarian Revolution.
edited 3rd Mar '14 7:46:31 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Who Am I?
It's fun, fun, fun until the protesters take your tanks away...
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
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Subcommandante Marcos has stepped down.
Because being popularly elected is what gives a democratic regime it's authority to govern. Without it, it becomes harder for the regime to persuasively make a claim the loyalty of the population. Thus, one way for an opposition party to deny this legitimacy to the governing power is to boycott the election, and then claim they were only elected by a small insular community of supporters. It's basically a propaganda approach.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."