IS-3. Posledniy tank Vtoroy Mirovoy

7 sentyabrya 1945 goda v Berline sostoyalsya torzhestvennyy parad soyuznyh voysk v chest' okonchaniya Vtoroy Mirovoy voyny, pod zanaves kotorogo zapadnyh soyuznikov ozhidal nepriyatnyy syurpriz - prazdnik zavershilsya prohozhdeniem mimo potryasennyh tribun 52 noveyshih sovetskih tankov "Iosif Stalin" - IS-3. Oni i vpryam' chem-to napominali Stalina: groznyy profil', nos "s gorbinkoy", skoshennye skuly, a glavnoe - oschuschenie kolossal'noy, sokrushitel'noy moschi, kotoruyu podcherkivala nevidannaya dosele priplyusnutaya obtekaemaya bashnya s massivnoy pushkoy. IS-3 na dolgie gody stal koshmarom Zapada, glavnym simvolom "sovetskoy ugrozy"... Odnako sud'ba byla nemilostiva k etim legendarnym mashinam, opredelivshim oblik vseh tyazhelyh sovetskih tankov vtoroy poloviny XX veka. Prodlis' voyna esche hotya by god - i oni, nesomnenno, pokryli by sebya neuvyadayuschey slavoy. No dlya sluzhby v mirnoe vremya IS-3 okazalis' maloprigodny - sozdavavshiesya dlya bol'shoy voyny, v kotoroy tanki sgorali za schitannye dni i dazhe chasy, oni ne sootvetstvovali poslevoennym trebovaniyam nadezhnosti, bol'shuyu chast' vremeni provodya v parkah i na rembazah. Boevoe primenenie IS-3 ogranichilos' podavleniem Vengerskogo myatezha i besslavnoy Egipetskoy kampaniey 1967 g