Interesting photo of pro-Russian rebels and their arms

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Theres an SKS as one may expect but I was surprised to see the PTRS-41 still in action.
 
Someone has been making trips to the salt caves where they still have all sorts of that stuff stored in Ukraine. If that war escalates SKSs as well as everything else we are now enjoying at rock bottom pricing will dry up.
 
My home town had huge arsenal of old milsurp small arms and armor. Whatever is still operational is being used right now. There are a couple of T34 and IS tanks that were brought back to life and are taking part in combat over there.
This topic has a lot of pictures/videos of PTRS/PTRD in use. http://forum.guns.ru/forummessage/164/1364991.html

This is a topic with tons of pictures of small arms in use by both sides. Pictures of some rare stuff such as Maxims, MGs etc can be found there.
https://reibert.info/threads/strilecka-zbroja-na-fronti.509373/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6c1r5ol7cw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkGZ1wjZep4
 
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I don't think surplus ammo market will dry up since there are bunch of other ex eastern block countries that made ammo and still have it. The only market that already dried up is dewat market since Ukraine for some reason ended up with tons of WW2 weapons and Ukrainian companies produced 60-70% of deactivated models sold in Eastern Europe.
 
I've noticed in a lot of these videos, the pro-Russian separatists identify themselves with white armbands. Are they trying to place themselves historically in relation to the color of armbands worn in the Russian Civil War after WW1 (white, as opposed to red, or black), or am I reading too much into this?
 
I doubt use of white armbands has anything to do with White Guard. At least I'm yet to hear anything about separatists relating themselves to the White Guard.

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I've noticed in a lot of these videos, the pro-Russian separatists identify themselves with white armbands. Are they trying to place themselves historically in relation to the color of armbands worn in the Russian Civil War after WW1 (white, as opposed to red, or black), or am I reading too much into this?
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There is a video where Ukrainian troops are repairing a PTRS-41 (you tube) so they are still being used. It was badly rusted but they managed to bring it back to like new condition. If I find the video I will post.
 
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