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No not the Ukraine but Russia,The title says " German Vehicle found in Russian Swamp"

Quality has always been strong point of mechanically inclined countries like Germany, Switzerland, Japan although ironically these nations produced junk at the beginning.The famous " Made In Germany " label for example was introduced by the British in the late XIX th century as cheap German imports /imitations of dubious quality were swamping the British Empire competing against superior British goods( How things have changed since...) and the Brits imposed that label to discourage them.Likewise Japan produced and flooded markets with cheap junk in the early sixities much like the Koreans and taiwanese did a bit later.Now these countries produced excellent quality stuff.

german steel ws excellent except in the last 6 months of the war. I remeber reading about Uboote crews praising the quality of their German steel when diving well below allowed limits 350 metres instead of the max specs of 250 metres to avoir being sunk by depth charges and despite creaking and groaning the steel hull would resist those extreme conditions.

But swamps also have special qualitites (tanin and other preservants)which delay decay and for example bodies form the iron age miraculously preserved and momified have been found in European bogs.Likewise for steel rust is impeded.