SKS is still in service in Ukraine! Look this!
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It has been being used right along side the AK47 on both sides since the trouble began, not really news. I do find it ironic though that almost 70 years after the Russians dumped the SKS in favor of the AK it is right back in use with the gun that supplanted it and holding it's own quite nicely...
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You can't go wrong with a good gun.
Really?... They have had a history of upheaval for ages in that region. This is just the latest of many.
SKS are stored in Ukraine, I just imagine that rebels got them when they seized a military base. honestly a SKS is a very good gun for this kind of warfare. Rebels arn't we'll trained and SKS are rock solid and don't need excessive maintenance.
Unless they are women, most if not all "rebels" received the same training as Ukrainian regular forces. Ukraine up until 2013 had mandatory military service.
steamy teabag
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The SKS is still a robust platform. Dependable, reliable and effective.
Chuckbuster
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Their hands are bound. Interesting that they are being referred to as POWs, or is that someone else's word choice? I mention this because it is my understanding that the hands of POWs are not to be bound, nor are they to be paraded and subject to public ridicule. Although, having said that, I know the Soviets did parade German prisoners during WWII.
skneub
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Yep I do very very little cleaning to mine.
We figure It has had in the range of 7000 rounds thru it since I got it
if Canada was in a civil war, i don't think any of us would be pinned...
That's right, publicly degrading prisoners of war (like parading them thru town) is against the Geneva convention and is in fact a war crime.
In all the videos and pics I have seen, none had their hands bound. I think they were "instructed" to keep them behind them.
Maybe stored in the Ukraine.
Russia still has huge stockpiles of SKS's. While I think that the Canadian importers are doing everything they can to "stay in the white" - so to speak - there's a very good chance a lot of the SKS's coming to Canada were never in the Ukraine to start with... Just a few warehouses for display purposes, then once all the paperwork goes through, the usual former East Block shenanigans kick in and the rifles that actually get shipped come from somewhere inside Russia, which is where the money ends up after being passed through the Ukraine.
It's a fairly common type of activity, and not just in the arms trade. Years ago when I was still working construction, and spent a year framing in Vancouver, it was crazy common for the contractors to get their Canadian lumber from Panama. Because of the "special economic zone" status of Panama at the time, you could buy Canadian lumber from a Panamanian dealer at a 10-20% discount over buying it directly from a Canadian lumber mill, due to the reduced tax profile. Guess what? The lumber never actually left Canada, only the paperwork went through Panama.
I would be stunningly non-surprised to see the same type of thing happening with a lot of the Ukrainian SKS's we've seen coming into Canada over the past decade. As I said, I have no doubt the Canadian importers were doing everything they could to keep things legit. But in the end, it's the former East Block - we're all outsiders to them and they have a lot of ways of shuffling paperwork and money around that are invisible to the outside world.
