The saddest part is that this skin actually has very interesting WW2 lore.
These are not random Russian words in red.
The Communist party initially banned religion and called it “opium for the people”.
They also labeled all dukes, barons and leaders of the past “tsarist servants”.
But when the situation got bad in 1941, Stalin was open to almost anything that could improve morale.
So he addresed the people as “brothers and sisters” in his first 1941 address, loosened up the repressions against the church, reintroduced medals in honor of great Russian defenders of the Motherland such as Suvorov, Kutuzov and Dmitry Donskoy – famous first prince of Moscow to openly challenge Mongol authority in Russia during the Yoke.
The Dmitry Donskoy tank group was created on the initiative of the Moscow Patriarchate with donations from believers and transferred to the Soviet tank forces in 1944.
The collection of donations began on December 30, 1942, when the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Sergius, appealed to believers to raise funds for the construction of the tank group.
Responding to the appeal of the head of the Church, people brought everything they had to the collection points. Silver icon frames, chains, rings, brooches, gold, personal savings. Over 8 million rubles, a large amount of jewelry, gold and silver items were collected for the construction of tanks.
It’s a real shame these interesting pieces of WW2 history are straight up being wasted in this game with the “whatever” attitude.
