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commies used rats of mass destrucshun on em nazis
2005-02-05
Posted by:muck4doo

#6  The mouse-eating-wire event took place November 1942 during the battle of Stalingrad in the German 57th Panzer Corps, which was by that time little more than a battalion.
Posted by: badanov   2005-02-05 11:55:43 PM  

#5  We all remember Pravda from the Cold War era. But now, maybe they aren't as bad? I'd certainly give them a chance versus someone like, oh, CBS.

I believe the USSR also had a Dog Mine. They would feed dogs under tanks, so they associated tank = food. They would then put strap-on explosives (like a splodeydope) and send them into the front lines. The problem was that the dogs associated food with Russian tanks...
Posted by: jackal   2005-02-05 11:48:39 PM  

#4  That was a German unit on the Russian front that had all the wiring eaten by mice. Could this be called Weapons of Mouse Destruction?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-02-05 7:04:02 PM  

#3  I think I saw a recent discussion of a WW2 tank regiment that was paralyzed by mice eating through the wires, but I forget whose tanks these were.

(The post was titled "The Mouse that Roared..." I'll have to see if I can dig it up.
Posted by: Phil Fraering   2005-02-05 5:25:46 PM  

#2  Now remember that this the Pravda, you know, that newspaper whose name means Truth. And while we are at it, Islam means peace.
Posted by: JFM   2005-02-05 5:00:45 PM  

#1  oooops! menten putter this on page 2 fred
Posted by: muck4doo   2005-02-05 3:52:01 PM  

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