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> It's1941.
> Be Ivan Pavlovich Sereda, 22yo cook in a tank regiment of the Red Army.
> While cooking up a storm in a field kitchen one day, hears a German tank passing nearby heading in the general direction of the local Red Army headquarters.
> Immediately grabs his rifle and an axe and chases down the tank on foot.
> Actually catches the tank, runs out in front of it to stop it.
> Climbs on the tank and quickly disables the tanks machine gun with the axe.
> Grabs tanks coversheet and throws it over the turret and hull, obscuring all of the tanks vision blocks.
> Proceeds to randomly bang on the turret and hull with the axe while shouting for someone to pass him some grenades.
> Plot twist - Sereda is still on his own at this point.
> Sereda's comrades finally turn up some minutes later, only to find the tank crew already out of tank and fully surrendered at gun point to the one-man army that was I.P. Sereda.
> Some time later in the war, now in a scout squad on a recon mission observing German lines.
> Squad spotted and almost captured by random German patrol.
> While escaping the patrol on foot, Sereda solo attacks a German tank with grenades, killing the tanks crew.
> Instead of continuing to run away, Sereda climbs INTO the tank and shoots at the advancing German soldiers with the tanks machine gun, killing some, scattering the rest.
> Entire scout squad, including Sereda, then escapes back to friendly lines.
> Ends WWII as a Senior Lieutenant awarded with:
> * The Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
> * The Order of Lenin.
> * The Order of the Patriotic War (Second Class).
> Dies some 5 years later at the age of just 31.
> Memorial erected to Sereda in his home town in Ukraine (picrel).
