a springfield in lenningrad?

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i was watching 'world at war' today and in a cupple shots i noticed a guy directing traffic with a springfield rifle over his shoulder. how crazy is that? at first i thought it was a p17 but in the better shot it had to be a springfield. i am wondering if these guns ever show up on the collectors market and if they would have any markings or anything to tell they were in russian service?
 
he was a russian guy with a flag directing traffic right in lenningrad. im not sure what kind of a troop he was a kommisar or police maybe?
 
here is a pic of i think the gun in the bottom right.
what kind of markings would be on these land lease guns? anything special?



this isent the pic i am talking about tho.
 
Ross 1910 MkIII rifle, Russian received some as lend-lease and others were acquired from Latvia when the Russians annexed the Baltic States.
 
fwm said:
I could be wrong but that looks like a Ross rifle in the bottom right picture to me.
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No, you're right. That's Ivan looking for the serial number that isn't there, while Vladimir pretends to write it down.

The "fix bayonets and throw away the scabbards" approach is an interesting carry over from the M-N.
 
LeeEnfieldNo.4_mk1 said:
Didn't various countries, the US Included, send quite a few arms to help fight the Bolsheviks during the revolution?
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More than just arms, they sent men, weapons even fighter planes. Canadian fighter pilot Ray Collishaw has a super interesting story. As soon as WW1 ended he was sent to Russia with the RAF to fight alongside Czarist forces. He gives an account of strafing thousands of Cossack cavalry from the air which sickened him personally. If he were an American they would have made movies about him, his story is unbelievable.
 
They probably came to the same conclusion that we did; great target rifle, lousy service rifle. The Russians did use worked over Rosses to win the International Running Deer shooting match in Caracas in 1954.
 
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