The Germans simply weren't expecting to be still fighting in Russia in winter - they expected to have the whole thing done and dusted by then. Lamentable lack of pattern recognition there - you'd think somebody at the staff college might have looked up Napoleon in 1812 or Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, or even way back in German history - naming it "Barbarossa" must have evoked the Prussian Knights and that business with charging across a not-properly-frozen lake. Somebody should have said "Wait a minute here, guys, have we thought this through? Should we consider a Plan B here, just in case?"Didnt they stick on old Newspapers for white winter camo?
Alas, a blood-red colour on snow might not have been all that out-of-the-ordinary in Russia in the 1940s...painting it on each side of the turret in large eighteen-inch-high blood-red letters
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See if you can spot the leopard (sorry, it's the best image I could find):
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Go back three spaces.It's the first one that I've managed to spot.... leopard.... spot.... sorry.
I know. I saw that after I posted. I ruined a perfectly bad joke.Go back three spaces.
Sorry, did'nt realise my title for the jpeg would show, you would'nt want to know what some of my titles in my folders are !.
That is just amazing.The Atticus Atlas moth's wings have evolved to resemble snakes and thereby deter predators:
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Spot the pussycat