War involves people. They operate even the most complex, inanimate, war machines. Yet even inanimate objects, even a metal monster, such as a tank, a ship, an aircraft, acquires a soul of its own in the eyes of those who live and fight in it, who remember their comrades dying in it. Years later, none of the surviving veterans forgets.
He approaches the machine with which he fought, with religious reverence, as he would approach a comrade in arms. Because for him the machine is just that, a comrade with whom he fought side by side.
One such, highly emotional moment was captured by the camera in some corner of Russia. An unknown World War II veteran discovers, more than 75 years later, that the T-34/85 battle tank he served with in the war has been preserved, as a memorial, outside a Russian city. The name of himself and the city are indifferent. What matters is the feeling of the old warrior and the memories, in front of a lifeless tank, which for him, however, has a soul.