war games with live ammo and German kids aged five … how the Stasi did it.

 

1. Hmmm...Do you have a link to the video?
   It must be available somewhere if it has re-surfaced.

   Posted by RFA       12/04/2009  at  04:59 PM  



2. And I doubt that they’d be like the “soldiers” in af-freak-a. They’d be well ordered.

   How cool would it have been to have had a miniature tank at age 7? The real deal, only scaled down? A tank the size of a Jeep maybe? A kid that small could handle loading a 30mm round, maybe even a 40? Oh sure, sending them off to combat would have been pretty sick, but just screwing around and getting trained how to blow up trees and stuff at 1000 meters? Freakin awesome!!!

   Soviet teens in Young Pioneers all got some amount of weapons training I think. In college our house had a emigre from Chita Siberia. She knew how to operate a crew served machine gun, having learned in her early teens.

   Posted by Drew458       12/05/2009  at  01:03 AM  



3. rfa ... no link that I saw. Just the news story in the paper.

   Posted by peiper       12/05/2009  at  01:38 PM  

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