Diversification of Tiznaos
The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was characterized by a special tension (about 500 thousand people out of about 25 million people of the country died during it) and the variety of opposing political forces that clashed in it. It combined the features of an acute class struggle and religious war, the confrontation between military dictatorship and republican democracy, the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution, between anarchism, communism, and fascism.
The weapons of the opposing sides were no less diverse than the ideologies that converged on the Iberian Peninsula. National weapons and military equipment of Spanish production were supplemented by supplies from countries that support the parties to the conflict – primarily Germany, Italy, and the USSR. The needs for armored vehicles, which were not fully met with the help of imports, were covered by numerous samples of handicraft armored vehicles.
When creating such samples, known under the collective name tiznaos (Spanish tiznaos – dirty gray, according to the color in which Spanish armored vehicles were painted), almost any automobile and tractor equipment was taken as a base. Usually, such vehicles were built in a single copy or in small series (up to two or three dozen). We offer you to get acquainted with 20 samples of unusual Spanish armored cars and 'tanks' of the Civil War period.
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