Responses to orders... Yes = Tak Tochno Tovarishch Komandir - Exactly So/As You Wish Comrade Commander No = Nikak Nyet Tovarishch Komandir- Not at a...

I doubt it got worse than Nikolskoe link to all the pictures added...

My guys do it and they need their heads read But they remember everytime That's not snow. THIS is snow!

The Red Stars painted on helmets were, well I just said it - painted, not decals. However, I guess this would at least give a whole unit a uniform ap...

First up, the closest of them all the Czech M52/53. In 1952 the USSR supplied SSh40 shells top the Czechoslovakian People's Army. They fitted their ...

The first postwar change to the wartime SSh40 was the introduction of a Y shaped chinstrap the same as the NVA's M56 helmet. This was far from univ...

Yes, you get painted bottles in wartime - the usual shades of green. It involves a slight bit of work but it's far from impossible to get either the ...

Go straight to the source...

I didn't know that the Soviets used captured Kar98s. I know they did with MP40s (and bizarrely the Germans prized the PPSh41) but... meh its airsoft. ...

.A quick Google and it would seem that they are curved. Introduced in '43 due to the troubles with loading the drum mag. It is a pain. I guess they wi...

Nice pics...spoilt by the digi camera in the grenadiers hands And the VERY East German looking concrete flower pot in the bottom right hand corner...