Several Moscow 42 Questions

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OK. I live in Moscow near one of its largest bookstores (also near Lubyanka, so I knew about the map!); the store is full of obscure WWII East Front memoirs and histories in Russian. If I get a chance I will pop in to see if they have any books about motorcycle troops and flip through the pages to see if there is anything about motoriding on the ice.

Also I don't know if the Sovs used sidecars as extensively as the Germans at this stage; sidecar motorcycles became very popular in Russia after the war, when the Sovs took BMW's plant back to Russia with them, where until recently the same machine tools were used to produce motos.

Sidecar or not, I think someone would be able to move much quicker on a horse than on a moto.