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Re:Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and... by dfcowell on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:49PM (#15966330)
> For this purpose, I’ve deposited all my personal savings – 50,000 rubles – to the National Bank in order to build a tank. I kindly ask to name the tank ‘Fighting Girlfriend’ and to send me to the frontline as a driver of said tank.

Not that I have any idea how close 50,000 rubles would get you to a tank back then, but it seems she at least contributed to the cost of building it.

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Re:Nazis Killed Her Husband, She Bought and Drove a T-34 and... by danielvf on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:38PM (#15966562)
New cost for a T-34 mid war would be 150,000 to 200,000 rubles.

A US Sherman tank from the same time would be around $46,000 then, or about a half million in today’s dollars.

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