The Mandela Way T-34 Tank is a tank located on a small piece of scrubland on the corner of Mandela Way and Pages Walk in Bermondsey, London, England.^[1] The tank is a decommissioned Soviet built T-34-85 battle tank.

It is a former Czech army tank that was used in the filming of Richard III (1995). On completion of the film, it was bought in 1995 by Russell Gray, who lives nearby, for £7,000. He then installed it in its current location.^[2] The tank was the subject of a work by Cubitt Artists and Aleksandra Mir who painted it pink in 2002.^[3] It has since been repainted by artist Charlotte Meldon in April 2017 back to a more authentic military Olive-Drab. The tank is often graffitied by local graffiti artists and it’s colour is regularly changed.

There are also T-64 and T-72 tanks that have been graffitied in a hippie manner at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev, Ukraine.^{[citation needed]}

The Monument to Soviet tank crews was a memorial located in Prague, Czech Republic, made up of an IS-2m tank on a pedestal. In 1991, the artist David Cerny painted the tank pink and hoisted a large middle finger over the turret in protest against the controversial monument. The monument was later removed and the tank is now stored at a military museum, painted pink.^{[citation needed]}

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  The T-34 tank's original a military green colour
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  The tank painted pink in 2002
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  Black and cream, swirling design, December 2008
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  June 2009
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  Post-2009 design influenced by American-style taxi cabs.
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  The tank in November 2014
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  The tank in March 2017
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  T-34 in April - July 2017

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mandela Way T-34 Tank.

• More about the tank's history.
• Evening Standard Newspaper – Revealed: the story behind the Soviet tank with its guns trained on council HQ

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