This is one of my favourite pictures, obviously of an exercise under NBC conditions.
I scanned this photograph from one of the many photobooks celebrating the NVA during the DDR.
The armoured personnel carrier on the left is a BTR152, which basically is an armoured version of the ZIL157 and had very traditional layout in many ways similar to the half-tracks of WW2. By the end of the 1960s, because of its inability to swim, and generally being obsolete, it had been relegated to supporting rear guard tasks, like communications etc.
What is entertaining to notice here are the DEEP :shocked: ruts made by the tanks in the soft sandy soil which is often to be found in Eastern Germany. I bet that the bottom of the hull was often dragged over the surface... Obviously those would be a nightmare for the wheeled vehicles with a narrower track width, and in fact it seems that a dual carriageway is being developed, with another BTR 152 in the background trying to escape the main alleyway to the safety of a side lane :laugh: