And the engine started, no replacement parts needed.
"Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison." -- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Very spiffy! Though I have to say, I wouldn't have stood that close to the thing when they were pulling it out. If the cable had snapped, a dozen bystanders would have been cut in half.
Russian lakes and marshes contain vast amounts of WWII vehicles and artillery (and, possibly, stuff left from all the way back to 1812). Something like his happens on a more or less regular basis.
As for getting the tank started after just a cleaning job... German engineering may be precise, but Russian engineering is friggin' sturdy. As an example, one of the stress tests on an AK-47 involved dumping it into a marsh, pulling it out a year after, cleaning it and firing a test clip with no jams. I am not surprised something similar happened to a tank.
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"Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison."
-- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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Must have been the lack of oxygen under the peat.
I like the Stephenson quote, it really fits here.
I make proud for my country
As for getting the tank started after just a cleaning job... German engineering may be precise, but Russian engineering is friggin' sturdy. As an example, one of the stress tests on an AK-47 involved dumping it into a marsh, pulling it out a year after, cleaning it and firing a test clip with no jams. I am not surprised something similar happened to a tank.