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There are maybe seven authentic Wartime production T-34s that are fully operational to this day. The reasons for this include: the tank was badly made (not badly designed, badly made) during the war due to shortages and necessity (when the enemy is at the gates you don't always have time to put, say, the rubber seals on the hatches...meaning rain leaks onto all the electronics and destroys them), the tank was laughably outdated at the dawn of its use in the war leading to the design rapidly being replaced with "upgraded" versions post war (which the overwhelming majority of T-34s in existence, including in Russia's famous Kubinka museum and its arsenal of T-34s on display, are. In fact the overwhelming majority of T-34s ever made were post-war models that were exported or were "foreign" made in soviet slave states). All of the functional T-34s shown in the film have tell-tale signs of being post-war models. Compounding issues further is that, when "genuine war made" models got destroyed, they were sometimes salvaged for use in post-war production. Meaning you may have a turret that claims it's "genuine war made" but is actually salvaged armor plating that got used in an otherwise fully post war model. Finally, literally 0 T-34s would remain operational unmaintained over just a few years, let alone the near-century it was between filming and the actual War. Any T-34s you see in function have far more in common with a body-kit car than they do the original model: Nearly everything has been replaced with modern machined replacements except MAYBE the armor panels. And even those likely have a lot of modern replacements to fill gaps and fix damage.
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* TankGoodness: The titular T-34 tanks that the Soviet protagonists pilot being pitted against their evil (but no less awesome) German counterparts, the Panzer [=IIs=],[=IIIs=] and later [[spoiler:the Panthers]]. Many of the tanks are either very good mockups or genuine wartime-produced tanks such as the Russian T-34s, a testament to their legendary durability far exceeding their intended service life.
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* TankGoodness: The titular T-34 tanks that the Soviet protagonists pilot being pitted against their evil (but no less awesome) German counterparts, the Panzer [=IIs=],[=IIIs=] and later [[spoiler:the Panthers]]. Many of the tanks are either very good mockups or genuine wartime-produced tanks such as the Russian T-34s, a testament to their legendary durability far exceeding their intended service life.T-34s repaired and maintained for historical purposes.
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Some Soviet soldiers did make it to camps. And the place where Anna and the men are being held does not appear to be a "death camp" i.e. extermination camp.
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** In 1941, a Soviet soldier having been captured most likely wouldn't make it to the concentration camp: Hitler specifically decreed no mercy for them, in other words, they were first on the death row, no exceptions (which was one of the reasons Stalin, in turn, decreed ''any'' who were taken prisoner and lived were traitors by default). While most of them were kept in make-shift {{POW Camp}}s, the majority were starved to death within a year of capture.
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** Anna shows the camp guard a document stating she has a right to exit the camp once (as a reward for her services as a translator). Unbelievable already (it's a ''death camp'', and she is by definition on a death row), but they don't even frisk her ''while showing several inmates being frisked in the background''.
** That is, not even mentioning that she and other inmates are allowed to move around the camp freely, and even enter important structures without an armed convoy.
** That is, not even mentioning that she and other inmates are allowed to move around the camp freely, and even enter important structures without an armed convoy.
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** Jaeger allows Nikolay to get a full 4-member crew for the tank, but says they won't have shells. However, of the four crew members, two are specifically required to man the cannon (aim and reload), which would make the full 4-man crew unnecessary.
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** Jaeger allows Nikolay to get a full 4-member crew for the tank, but says they won't have shells. However, of the four crew members, two are specifically required to man the cannon (aim and reload), which would make the full 4-man crew unnecessary. If the Germans weren't carrying the IdiotBall, Nikolay's escape would never have succeeded.
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** In 1941, a Soviet soldier having been captured most likely wouldn't make it to the concentration camp: Hitler specifically decreed no mercy for them, in other words, they were first on the death row, no exceptions (which was one of the reasons Stalin, in turn, decreed ''any'' who were taken prisoner and lived were traitors by default).
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** In 1941, a Soviet soldier having been captured most likely wouldn't make it to the concentration camp: Hitler specifically decreed no mercy for them, in other words, they were first on the death row, no exceptions (which was one of the reasons Stalin, in turn, decreed ''any'' who were taken prisoner and lived were traitors by default). While most of them were kept in make-shift {{POW Camp}}s, the majority were starved to death within a year of capture.
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* DistantPrologue: The opening scenes, climaxing in the tank battle between Nikolay and Klaus, are set in late November 1941. Cut forward some 2.5 years to 1944 and the main story, Nikolay and Stepan having been prisoners the whole time.
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* TurnOffTheCamera: After the Russians escape the camp, Jaeger belatedly remembers the men filming the training exercise and pulls this trope.
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Compare with the American equivalent, ''Film/Fury2014''.
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*** Nikolay says that it's 300 kilometers to Czechian border (which it was from the SIII camp); but during the time period shown (before SIII camp was liberated), that particular territory was controlled by Germany. Possibly justified by Nikolay not being aware of this.
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He's a Standartenfuhrer, so a bit unclear on that front.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. Although Klaus, a Wehrmacht panzer commander, regards himself as a ConsummateProfessional, the film pointedly avoids the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth and shows that the UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons were perfectly willing to work with the SS. Klaus even threatens to execute a concentration camp prisoner on his own initiative to get Nikolay to cooperate with the Germans' training exercises.
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* ConsummateProfessional: During a meeting between Heinz Guderian, Hiedrich Himmler and Klaus Jäger, Himmler asks the latter if he hates the Russians. His reply suggests a very neutral stance on the matter.
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* ConsummateProfessional: During a meeting between Heinz Guderian, Hiedrich Himmler UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler and Klaus Jäger, Himmler asks the latter if he hates the Russians. His reply suggests a very neutral stance on the matter.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Appearing in a war meeting is Reichsführer Hiedrich Himmler a.k.a UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's second-in-command, while renowned [[FourStarBadass Panzer General]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian Heinz Guderian]] is portrayed as Jäger's superior, tasked with supervising the latter's new training program.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Appearing in a war meeting is Reichsführer Hiedrich Himmler UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler a.k.a UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's second-in-command, while renowned [[FourStarBadass Panzer General]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Guderian Heinz Guderian]] is portrayed as Jäger's superior, tasked with supervising the latter's new training program.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: several, despite what one would think:
** Nightvison equipment in World War II? Very real, available technology that had been in deep consideration from [[http://www.koreanwaronline.com/arms/m1irsnip.htm both]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229 sides]] for military purposes.
** Inmates running in circles in boots to see how badly their feet will bleed afterwards, and how much the boots wear out. A real precedent and practice.
** Nikolay's ambush that saw him destroy a whole regiment of Germans with far fewer forces is based on a real battle led by Ivan Lyubushkin.
** Nightvison equipment in World War II? Very real, available technology that had been in deep consideration from [[http://www.koreanwaronline.com/arms/m1irsnip.htm both]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zielger%C3%A4t_1229 sides]] for military purposes.
** Inmates running in circles in boots to see how badly their feet will bleed afterwards, and how much the boots wear out. A real precedent and practice.
** Nikolay's ambush that saw him destroy a whole regiment of Germans with far fewer forces is based on a real battle led by Ivan Lyubushkin.
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* RescueRomance: How [[spoiler:Nikolay and Anya hit it off.]] While there was reluctance on Nikolay's part to [[spoiler:invite Anya in the escape attempt he devised with Volchok, Stepan, and Serafim, he decides to offer Anya a ride when she offered that she can smuggle a map Jaeger showed to them earlier.]] Once Nikolay and his subordinates [[spoiler:succeed in escaping, Nikolay finds the time to pick up Anya after she left the camp. From there, the romance begins to the point Nikolay evidently marries and impregnates Anya after the war]].
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* RescueRomance: How [[spoiler:Nikolay and Anya hit it off.]] While there was reluctance on Nikolay's part to [[spoiler:invite Anya in the escape attempt he devised with Volchok, Stepan, and Serafim, he decides to offer Anya a ride when she offered that she can smuggle a map Jaeger showed to them earlier.]] Once Nikolay and his subordinates [[spoiler:succeed in escaping, Nikolay finds the time to pick up Anya after she left the camp. From there, the romance begins to the point Nikolay evidently marries and impregnates and marries Anya after the war]].
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I am not fluent in German—so somebody tell me if I'm wrong—but the English subtitles for that scene do not indicate Jaeger making such an impertinent statement to Himmler. When Himmler asks Jaeger if he hates the Russians, he's not talking about it in the abstract sense of whether Jaeger approves of the racial policies of Nazi Germany, but is referencing the huge scars on Jaeger's face and whether he wants revenge for the wounds they inflicted on him personally. Klaus says he is without sentiment (he does not say he does not care about race), and only cares about serving the fatherland. To Himmler this would not seem like a deviant idea, just a promise to carry out one's duty without any irrational focus on personal revenge.
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** In the opening scene, a bubblehead in the truck. These were not used in USSR until much, much later.
** S3 camp was very real, but is portrayed ''way'' less horribly than it was in real life. Inmates are shown relatively well fed (none of them show any signs of malnutrition), have more or less proper beds, and are even allowed to wear hair, beards and moustache. But above all, Nikolay's ''seven attempts to escape'' in reality would not only mean certain death upon recapture, but likely would have had many other inmates killed, based on how it went for real escapees and their friends.
** Jaeger (an SS officer) mentions his oath to Deutchland. Except that SS did not swear loyalty to Germany, but directly to Adolf Hitler himself.
** In the same scene, he says face to face to Heinrich Himmler, the architect of Holocaust, that he cares not about emotions and races (that would be like saying one does not care about law to the Supreme Court).
** S3 camp was very real, but is portrayed ''way'' less horribly than it was in real life. Inmates are shown relatively well fed (none of them show any signs of malnutrition), have more or less proper beds, and are even allowed to wear hair, beards and moustache. But above all, Nikolay's ''seven attempts to escape'' in reality would not only mean certain death upon recapture, but likely would have had many other inmates killed, based on how it went for real escapees and their friends.
** Jaeger (an SS officer) mentions his oath to Deutchland. Except that SS did not swear loyalty to Germany, but directly to Adolf Hitler himself.
** In the same scene, he says face to face to Heinrich Himmler, the architect of Holocaust, that he cares not about emotions and races (that would be like saying one does not care about law to the Supreme Court).
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** In the opening scene, there's a bubblehead little bobblehead doll in the cab of the truck. These were not used in the USSR until much, much later.
** The S3 camp was very real, butis it's portrayed ''way'' as ''far'' less horribly horrible than it was in real life. Inmates are shown relatively well fed (none None of them show any signs of malnutrition), the inmates look malnourished, they have more or less more-or-less proper beds, and are even allowed to wear have hair, beards and moustache. moustaches. But above all, Nikolay's Nikolay could never have gotten a record of attempting escape ''seven attempts to escape'' in reality would not only mean certain death upon recapture, but likely times'': the Germans would have had many other killed him when they caught him escaping the first time, and probably would have killed a number of Nikolay's fellow inmates killed, based on how it went for real escapees and their friends.
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** Jaeger (an SS officer) mentions his oath to Deutchland. Except that the SS did not swear loyalty to Germany, but directly to Adolf Hitlerhimself.
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** Jaeger (an SS officer) mentions his oath to Deutchland. Except that the SS did not swear loyalty to Germany, but directly to Adolf Hitler
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** The titular machine, T-34-85, is a modification that Nikolay could not see himself as he was captured in 1941, but somehow he knows everything about it, more than the SS do despite the ''Wehrmacht'' and them having witnessed the tank's evolution on the battlefield.
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** The titular machine, T-34-85, is a modification that Nikolay could not see himself as seems to already know everything about the T-34-85 when it's presented to him in the camp, even though he was captured in 1941, but somehow he knows everything 1941 and had no access to information about it, this more than recent model. If anything the SS do despite ought to know more about it than him, since they and the ''Wehrmacht'' have been fighting against and them having witnessed studying the tank's evolution on successive iterations of the battlefield.T-34 in the meantime.
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** The protagonists just returning home in the end. While making it out of Germany during the war was not unheard of, it would require way more than just traveling on foot without weapons and while carrying a wounded comrade. That, and the explanation they all would have been required to provide upon return: namely, how did they even avoid death and whether they helped the enemy to do so. Also, the [[StateSec NKVD]] were not at all welcoming to former [=POWs=], who were officially assumed to be traitors unless they could prove otherwise.
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** The protagonists just returning home in the end. While making it out of Germany during the war was not unheard of, it would require way more than just traveling on foot without weapons and while carrying a wounded comrade. That, and the explanation they all would have been required to provide upon return: namely, how did they even avoid death and whether they helped the enemy to do so. Also, What's more, the [[StateSec NKVD]] were not at all welcoming to former [=POWs=], who were officially assumed to be traitors unless they could prove otherwise. Rather than believe the protagonists survived and escaped from one of the Germans' infamous camps--let alone in such a wild and improbable manner--the NKVD would think it more likely that they only avoided being killed because they agreed to work for the Germans, and were now pretending to have "escaped" so they could infiltrate the USSR as German spies.
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** The protagonists just returning home in the end. While making it out of Germany during the war was not unheard of, it would require way more than just traveling on foot without weapons and while carrying a wounded comrade. That, and the explanation they all would have been required to provide upon return: namely, how did they even avoid death and whether they helped the enemy to do so.
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** The protagonists just returning home in the end. While making it out of Germany during the war was not unheard of, it would require way more than just traveling on foot without weapons and while carrying a wounded comrade. That, and the explanation they all would have been required to provide upon return: namely, how did they even avoid death and whether they helped the enemy to do so. Also, the [[StateSec NKVD]] were not at all welcoming to former [=POWs=], who were officially assumed to be traitors unless they could prove otherwise.
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* ShootTheBullet: At one point, a shell from the T-34 collides with one from a Panther by sheer chance, causing both shots to be deflected into misses.
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* TakeItToTheBridge: The final duel between Klaus and Nikolay.
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* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The end of the film shows the eventual fates of the surviving tankers.
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** Stepan [[spoiler:becomes a tractor driver on a farm and raises a family.]]
** Serafim [[spoiler:becomes an art restorer.]]
** Volchok [[spoiler:becomes a hunter.]]
** Nikolay [[spoiler:returns home and is reunited with his mother, who he introduces to his now pregnant wife/fiancee, Anya.]]
** Stepan [[spoiler:becomes a tractor driver on a farm and raises a family.]]
** Serafim [[spoiler:becomes an art restorer.]]
** Volchok [[spoiler:becomes a hunter.]]
** Nikolay [[spoiler:returns home and is reunited with his mother, who he introduces to his now pregnant wife/fiancee, Anya.]]
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* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. Nikolay and his crew are only able to salvage six shells for their tank (four armor-piercing, two fragmentation), and that's all they fire over the course of the breakout.
* CountingBullets: Nikolay and his men were only able to scrounge up six shells (four armor-piercing and two fragmentation) for their tank, so they have to keep careful count of how many they have left as the fighting progresses. In the final duel, they have only OneBulletLeft, so they need to make it count.
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* VillainBall: The Germans hold on to it big time, when they somehow allowed prisoners-of-war free reign over the maintenance of a recently captured tank, especially when they neglected to at least search the vehicle thoroughly before handing it over to them. [[spoiler:This allows the Soviet crew to discover ''six working tank shells'' and then smuggle them out by burying them with their now-deceased former crew, enabling them to hatch a daring escape plan afterwards.]]
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* VillainBall: The Germans hold on to it big time, when they somehow allowed prisoners-of-war free reign over the maintenance of a recently captured tank, especially when they neglected to at least search the vehicle thoroughly before handing it over to them. [[spoiler:This allows the Soviet crew to discover ''six working tank shells'' and then smuggle them out by burying them with their now-deceased former crew, enabling them to hatch a daring escape plan afterwards.]] The last bit was apparently done out of the petty cruelty of making the prisoners remove the bodies of the former crew themselves, [[spoiler:not knowing that one of said bodies was lying on a box of shells.]]
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* BottomlessMagazines: Averted. Nikolay and his crew are only able to salvage six shells for their tank (four armor-piercing, two fragmentation), and that's all they fire over the course of the breakout.
* SkinnyDipping: After breaking out, the place where the crew stops for the night is near a lake, so the men all strip down for a wash.
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* TimePassageBeard: Inverted. Klaus sports a thick beard during the Invasion of Russia, but by 1944 he is clean shaven. He may have grown the SeadogBeard to combat the cold temperatures of the Moscow winter as well as taking advantage of lax grooming standards deep in the frontlines. In the second act of the story he is a high-ranking officer within administrative reach of the higher ups. (His scarring may have also halted facial hair growth as well)
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* ToThePain: In the final battle, [[spoiler:Klaus toys with Nikolay, going for a series of crippling shots which he lands despite the T-34-85 swerving back and forth. If he had fought seriously, he might have stopped Nikolay before he got close enough to shoot his last round point blank]].
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* TimePassageBeard: Inverted. Klaus sports a BadassBeard during the Invasion of Russia, but by 1944 he is clean shaven. He may have grown the SeadogBeard to combat the cold temperatures of the Moscow winter as well as taking advantage of lax grooming standards deep in the frontlines. In the second act of the story he is a high-ranking officer within administrative reach of the higher ups. (His scarring may have also halted facial hair growth as well)
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In the months following the opening stages of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica German invasion of the Soviet Union]], a lone T-34-76 crew lead by junior tank commander Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is assigned to a small detachment of Soviet infantry to slow the German onslaught at the outskirts of Moscow. Finding themselves outnumbered and outgunned, the Russians lay in ambush against a German Panzer battalion lead by a cunning [[ThoseWackyNazis SS officer]], Klaus Jäger (Vinzenz Kiefer). In the aftermath of the vicious tank battle, Nikolay is wounded by an equally-battered Klaus and is eventually captured by the Germans.
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In the months following the opening stages of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica [[WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica German invasion of the Soviet Union]], a lone T-34-76 crew lead by junior tank commander Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is assigned to a small detachment of Soviet infantry to slow the German onslaught at the outskirts of Moscow. Finding themselves outnumbered and outgunned, the Russians lay in ambush against a German Panzer battalion lead by a cunning [[ThoseWackyNazis SS officer]], Klaus Jäger (Vinzenz Kiefer). In the aftermath of the vicious tank battle, Nikolay is wounded by an equally-battered Klaus and is eventually captured by the Germans.
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In the months following the opening stages of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII German invasion of the Soviet Union]], a lone T-34-76 crew lead by junior tank commander Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is assigned to a small detachment of Soviet infantry to slow the German onslaught at the outskirts of Moscow. Finding themselves outnumbered and outgunned, the Russians lay in ambush against a German Panzer battalion lead by a cunning [[ThoseWackyNazis SS officer]], Klaus Jäger (Vinzenz Kiefer). In the aftermath of the vicious tank battle, Nikolay is wounded by an equally-battered Klaus and is eventually captured by the Germans.
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In the months following the opening stages of the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII/WarInEuropeAndAfrica German invasion of the Soviet Union]], a lone T-34-76 crew lead by junior tank commander Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is assigned to a small detachment of Soviet infantry to slow the German onslaught at the outskirts of Moscow. Finding themselves outnumbered and outgunned, the Russians lay in ambush against a German Panzer battalion lead by a cunning [[ThoseWackyNazis SS officer]], Klaus Jäger (Vinzenz Kiefer). In the aftermath of the vicious tank battle, Nikolay is wounded by an equally-battered Klaus and is eventually captured by the Germans.
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* AlmostDeadGuy After saving his friends by firing his captured [[spoiler:Panther's]] gun, [[spoiler:Volchok]] is physically unable to reload his tank due to his wounds, HeroicWillpower be damned.
* DisposingOfABody: When the recently-captured T-35-85 is revealed, the entire audience is seen covering their noses due to the foul stench of the dead crew still inside. Even when Nikolay briefly inspects the interior, he is overwhelmed by the smell and tells the Germans that they need extra time to clean it out as well as burying the dead.
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** No matter how skilled or lucky a lone tank can be, superior numbers as well as infantry support will always triumph. The Russian crews have to resort to hit-and-run tactics or outright retreat when the enemy begins to swarm them with overwhelming numbers.
** When the recently-captured T-35-85 is revealed, the entire audience is seen covering their noses due to the foul stench of the [[{{Squick}} dead crew]] still inside. Even when Nikolay briefly inspects the interior, he is overwhelmed by the smell and tells the Germans that they need extra time to clean it out as well as burying the dead.
** After saving his friends by firing his captured [[spoiler:Panther's]] gun, [[spoiler:Volchok]] is physically unable to reload his tank due to his wounds, HeroicWillpower be damned.
** No matter how skilled or lucky a lone tank can be, superior numbers as well as infantry support will always triumph. The Russian crews have to resort to hit-and-run tactics or outright retreat when the enemy begins to swarm them with overwhelming numbers.
** When the recently-captured T-35-85 is revealed, the entire audience is seen covering their noses due to the foul stench of the [[{{Squick}} dead crew]] still inside. Even when Nikolay briefly inspects the interior, he is overwhelmed by the smell and tells the Germans that they need extra time to clean it out as well as burying the dead.
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* MirrorCharacter: Both Klaus and Nikolay are TheAce of their respective factions, who are AFatherToHisMen and are loyal to their country. Klaus even tries to highlight this by bringing up the fact that their names are practically the same (Klaus, presumably short-form of 'Nicolaus' = 'Nikolay').
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* GuileHero: Nikolai has to rely on his witts and skills as a tank commander to escape from the concentration camp and defeat his German opponent and equal Klaus.
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* GuileHero: Nikolai Nikolay has to rely on his witts and skills as a tank commander to escape from the concentration camp and defeat his German opponent and equal Klaus.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. Although Klaus, a Wehrmacht panzer commander, regards himself as a ConsummateProfessional, the film pointedly avoids the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth and shows that the UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons were perfectly willing to work with the SS. Klaus even threatens to execute a concentration camp prisoner on his own initiative to get Nikolai to cooperate with the Germans' training exercises.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. Although Klaus, a Wehrmacht panzer commander, regards himself as a ConsummateProfessional, the film pointedly avoids the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth and shows that the UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons were perfectly willing to work with the SS. Klaus even threatens to execute a concentration camp prisoner on his own initiative to get Nikolai Nikolay to cooperate with the Germans' training exercises.
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Changed line(s) 62 (click to see context) from:
* GuileHero: Nikolaj has to rely on his witts and skills as a tank commander to escape from the concentration camp and defeat his German opponent and equal Klaus.
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* GuileHero: Nikolaj Nikolai has to rely on his witts and skills as a tank commander to escape from the concentration camp and defeat his German opponent and equal Klaus.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. Although Klaus, a Wehrmacht panzer commander, regards himself as a ConsummateProfessional, the film pointedly avoids the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth and shows that the UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons were perfectly willing to work with the SS. Klaus even threatens to execute a concentration camp prisoner on his own initiative to get Nikolaj to cooperate with the Germans' training exercises.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. Although Klaus, a Wehrmacht panzer commander, regards himself as a ConsummateProfessional, the film pointedly avoids the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth and shows that the UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons were perfectly willing to work with the SS. Klaus even threatens to execute a concentration camp prisoner on his own initiative to get Nikolaj Nikolai to cooperate with the Germans' training exercises.
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* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Subverted. Although Klaus, a Wehrmacht panzer commander, regards himself as a ConsummateProfessional, the film pointedly avoids the "Clean Wehrmacht" myth and shows that the UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons were perfectly willing to work with the SS. Klaus even threatens to execute a concentration camp prisoner on his own initiative to get Nikolaj to cooperate with the Germans' training exercises.
