Russian Kids Book: Tank Structure
Someone has submitted us a scan of one page from Russian book for children about the structure of the tanks. This actual page shows the tank in “cut”, and if to look closer they show the tank driver in cut too for some weird reason…
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These books were originaly by Dorling Kindersley and the drawing was by British artist Stephen Bestley ( around 1992).
If you cut the tank, you cut the soldiers driving it too! It seems pretty logical to me…
Slush, 4yvak, ya toshe iz belgii, iz Brussela.
I had this book 10 years ago (Poland).
It is a translation from the English version, so it’s not designed by russians.
I have got this book in Czech version… Very nice!
I love german submarine, Empire state building and Queen Elisabeth as well :o)
the soldier is seated…
the cut region is below where his leg would be. i suspect that this is actually the seat that is cut… but those things inside do not resemble normal springs inside of seat.
Well, if you look carefully, the cut is actually made right through the driver’s waist, just above the belt.
Why they would show such a picture of human cut away with intestines in a children’s book. Not sure too.
oh i see that now… is third man there in middle… LOL
poor kids ^ ^
you can see the soldiers spine and vertebrae too… I still think its strange to have that in a technical drawing of a tank
Fuck Great Britain
no FUCK YOU
I have two thoughts.
1) Subtle anti-war statement.
2) Sick little mind f7ck by the illustrator.
3) George Bush has made all your cowboys gay.
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yeaaah, I used to rent these books (there was a series by the same auther/illustrator) from the library because of these creepy pictures. This is, of course, comming from canada.
Kids love highly detailed illustrations. This sort of book did not last long in my library because every kid in school would thumb through it over and over. Soon it was a dirty mess.
This is in the US version of the book as well.
So? is that bad or something? whoever is interested in technology would be happy to get this book. i myself remember looking at any technical oriented books with any detailed pictures.
I own this book in English, and it was definitely published in England first. Poor work, ER. :
Another stupid post about “weird” and “strange” Russian things, which has nothing to do with Russian reality. Again.
Well I figure it does make sense.
I had the English version of this book as a kid, I loved that some much.
Cutted driver? No way, this has to be the gunner or the tank commander. The driver is located in front below the cutted person.
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Well,
I agree with Nav, that it is not the driver but the commander / gunner who is cutted.
But thats not the case. It is clearly meant to show as well the place where that commander / gunner uses to sit and also his position in the hull in one painting.
So how else could he put that situation on paper?
Hey, I’ve had (and may still have) this book, or in fact the Finnish-language version of it. Funny to notice things like this on the biig internet.
I used to read this book at the library whenever it was there. I found it quite interesting that they showed the guy’s intestines as well.
This isn’t wrong for kids to see, it makes pictures in books more interesting. If I were drawing the picture I’d show the guys too.
Oh, I just realized after like 10 years that this is a T-34. Cool.
I had thos book, in portuguese. They had people on the toilet too… the pictures are VERY nice.
wrong.
i read those books in about 1981, so its not british and definitely - earlier than 1992.
I have that book! Well, a dutch translation of it, that is.
Cutouts can be very humorous: another page shows a steam tractor in detail… including details such as what kind of lunch the driver is carrying under his cap ^_^
i had this book too.
the german version contained: the tank, the ship green mary, the empire state building and several more pictures.
i loved them as children.
the submarine was in there too.
what else? do you remember?
maybe this book is the reason why i’am so technicially interested at all, wow. *dream*
How silly and odd
I own this book in Spanish
I’ve got that book in swedish, there are many other interesting structures “cut”.
we had these books in school here in belgium too
The whole book is like that. It’s kind of a joke, they also have people walking in on people in the bathroom in different drawings, or people in a shower, it’s just for fun.
I suspect it’s the illustrators’ own little joke. Often artists, directors etc will add something special especially if underpaid or under-appreciated.
Probably some idiot management chimp-in-a-suit told him his work had to be more cut-away so he did exactly as told
I doubt the kids would even notice it since i dont remeber it when i had the book