Warsaw pact ground troops - cold war era

[radu]

Romanian Army in 1969, during National Day parade

[Gawel1410]

Here's a couple of pics from my own collection, these are mostly family members who all served in the LWP during the 1950's- 1960's.

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A continuation of the pictures..... same time period of 1950's to 1960's

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Here's a few of my grandmother's brother who's unit was in Czechoslovakia in 1968.

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Grandfather who served in Bydgoszcz in the Polish Air force.

[Stormz_STA]

Cool pics, Gawel.

[Gawel1410]

And my other grandfather who served as a driver in the Polish army.

[Gawel1410]

Thanks StormzSTA, I have a few more that I'll put up in a short while.

a continuation of the pics from the post above.

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And finally my father who served in the final years of the LWP/Polish army (1989-1990) as a corporal in command of a ZU-23-2 stationed in Opole.

[Switek]

Cool pics, Gawel.

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Thanks for sharing them, Gawel.

[Gawel1410]

With pleasure Switek, I'll be back in Poland this summer so hopefully I'll find more pictures as well as my dad's moro wz.68 pants.

[G-AWZT]

Thanks Gawel. It's not often that we get to see such rare photos.

[Redbeard]

Here's a pic of the ammo - 7.62x45 as compaired to other ammo.

This is from page 23, and I didn't see anyone address this issue in a few subsequent pages. All of the rounds are named incorrectly. I haven't had hands-on experience with any of these, except 7.62x39, but I spotted the inaccuracies imediately.

We'll start from left and go to the right - the first one is 7.92x33 aka 7.92 Kurz, the next one is 7.62x39, next is 5.45x39. I'm not sure about the last, but it looks like the chinese 5.8x42 heavy round.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong and discuss away.

[Ropi]

Cool thread!

I have no pics myself, but I heard an interesting story about the NVA:
There's a reservist I know (the guy is Hungarian), who was sent to Germany in 2005 for a "friendly week" with a Luftwaffe training regiment (to see how they do stuff so they could use it in training, etc). There was a German Cpt. who used to be in the NVA, and was "Bundeswher-ized" and he was the only man (besides the Hungarians) who ever even saw an AK-type rifle outside a training manual and he amazed literally everyone in the regiment when he took apart and reassembled an AK in less than 10 and 15 seconds respectively His NVA days showed

[Ropi]

Redbeard:
My guess for the fourth round would be a 5.56x45 NATO, but I'm not sure at all...