Steel Sun: 1941

In the Soviet Union in 1938, the 15th Tank Brigade was established in the Kiev Special Military District (reorganized into the 5th Guards Tank Brigade in 1940) and belonged to the 4th Mechanized Corps. At this time, the Ukrainian countryside was resuming production after collectivization, and the recruits still had to return to their hometowns to participate in harvesting during the busy farming season. News of Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria reached the military camp through newspapers, and soldiers in the literacy class argued over mimeographed briefings. Zhao Feng, a restorer at the Modern Military Museum, was struck by a leakage from the dashboard while cleaning a T-28 tank recovered from the battlefield in 1941. When he woke up, he found himself lying in the recruit barracks of the 15th Tank Brigade. His identity was "Andrei Petrov" who was born in a Ukrainian peasant family.