[Cz-L] Red Army Trucks

The basic Red Army Truck was te GAZ that is acronym for State Automobile
Factory or
  Gosudarny Avtomobilny Zavod in the local speech.
  One day in 1944 a long echalon (that is convoy) passed through town .
  100, 200, maybe more trucks passed from the east Russischegasse
   turning into Morariogasse and then over the Prut ,way North ,to the
Baltics.
    One truck veered into a yard and stopped. He had tyre trouble and had to
     fix some
     punctured tyre tubes.
    The driver got out and started unloading all the necessary gear.
     Then he made a fire. Then he undressed , shaved and made laundry.
     All kids of the neighborhood came close to watch.
       Then he asked for some newspapers. Not for reading , for smoking.
      The paper was cut into small pieces ,than a sack of Machorka came out
and
       cigarettes were rolled. Machorka was that raw tobacco of Russia ,
including
       branches of various plants and other vermin. When drawing a deep
smoke
       the cigarette woud go on fire.
        Then he started to fix the tyres. He brought out all the tools and
started
         to make "vulcanizatsya" that is hot puncture repair.
         He filled a pail with water and inflated the tube by a hand pump
and looked for leaks.
          Then he cooked something to eat and went to sleep.
          He stayed there for four days.
           He was a nice, middle aged Russian .
        When asked how he would find his unit who was now in the Masurians
1000 miles away he said that this was no problem, you can always ask.

http://picasaweb.google.com/HARDYLOG/Gaz#slideshow/5419418358488201906

   This is a GAZ truck.
Gosudarsky Avtomobilski Zavod.
Hardy
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From: <swishnermd_at_aol.com>
To: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, December 25, 2009 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Soviet era

>
> I remember sitting in the cab of a waiting Russian truck and eating plums=
> that he had in an upturned cap! I was 5 and had been playing in the side=
> walk in front of our building when he motioned me over and lifted me in
> be=
> side him; My mother came out and almost had a heart attack and whisked me=
> out!!
>
>
> Stanley Wishner, (Milo Weinshenker)
>
>
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