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  • metalman3006

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    1938 m91/30
     

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    CasualObserver

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    If you dig around on the internet there is speculation it is actually FLPMi and is associated with a Fire Brigade in Latvia. Not a whole lot of solid evidence (or any really that I saw) but there are a few Mosin's out there marked that way it sounded like.
     

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    If you dig around on the internet there is speculation it is actually FLPMi and is associated with a Fire Brigade in Latvia. Not a whole lot of solid evidence (or any really that I saw) but there are a few Mosin's out there marked that way it sounded like.

    If they armed their fire departments, that’s pretty awesome
     

    CodeWarrior1241

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    Sep 23, 2013
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    If they armed their fire departments, that’s pretty awesome
    Nothing awesome about it.

    Fire departments, as well as police stations and other civic institutions, were paramilitary extensions of the army. As such, they were tools of the occupier meant to cower the population and keep them down.

    In soviet hands these were used to oppress the locals and take away food prior to the winter to incite starvation. In independent Free Baltic hands they were used to force Jews into barns prior to lighting them on fire.

    Little, if anything, was awesome in that part of the world for anyone really.

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    metalman3006

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    Sep 6, 2007
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    The more up to date thinking on these is that they are German captures that where then issued to German troops on Luftwaffe bases. A few of these show up with Finnish property marks and with German traits such as blued bolts, probably from when Germany sold a bunch of mosins to the Finns later in the war. The neat thing about this one is that it was likely captured bu the Germans than recaptured by the Russians. This one was also repaired by a Soviet artillery repair depot. Also fits in with my other recapture.

    https://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=218067
     

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