There have been a lot of questions about what Russian snipers used to wrap their rifles as camoflage in the field. I have finally found difinitive information by reading the unpublished recollections of a woman sniper during the Second World War. They largely used muslin army bandages. They were available to every soldier, required no ties (since the bandage could hold itself on), and frayed easily improving the camoflages' effect of breaking up the recognizable outline of the rifle. I have used the Canadian Forces' green muslin bandages and it looks awesome. I can't find more of them though (I have one from when I was in the field).
Can someone who is not color blind tell me whether the wrapping in the movie Stalingrad was brown or green? I can't tell.
Here's the excerpt:
"Yes. Then we rode in cattle cars, with stoves. They couldn't get us all the way to the front, unloaded us. There was such a snowstorm, they gave us a truck to bring us closer to the front, to a reserve regiment. A truck! We carried it all the way on our backs, there was so much snow. So we got there. I don't remember how long it took, a day, two, three... It was a long time ago. They gave us camouflage coveralls. We wrapped bandages around our rifles. Early in the morning they fed us and gave us sandwiches to take with us: bread and American sausage."
The sniper's name was Klaudia Kalugina
