the T-34 in Somalia

Somalia faces many problems now in the 2020s, most of them directly or indirectly caused by a disastrous defeat in a now-largely forgotten war against Ethiopia during the 1970s. The USSR’s main tank of WWII, the T-34, fought in this war.

(Somali T-34 tanks on parade in Mogadishu prior to the Ogaden War.)

(An abandoned T-34 in Somalia today.)