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Thank you for this info.
Good to know this from someone, who seems to have an actual first hand combat experience (based on your previous posts), as anything else is just guessing.
Cleaning the SKS in wartime situation
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Thank you for this info.
Good to know this from someone, who seems to have an actual first hand combat experience (based on your previous posts), as anything else is just guessing.
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Just run it.
nice or not he was part of the invasion team ...
Can you please explain to us how a regular foot soldier can decide whether or not or where he/she wants to fight, when ordered to do so??
I fully understand what you're saying but when push comes to shove, a soldier follows orders.
Depending on which nation they fight for, there may be a way out of direct conflict. Usually such refusals mean a jail sentence or worse.
well again you want something i cannot explain first im not a teacher and second i cant revisit history ... visit those countries and explain how nice the german invaders were ...
as for the nazi regime the german people supported it.
the german nazi that the gentleman belonged to was not on vacation it war and they did not take a chance and destroyed villages and towns with anybody living inside. the partisan war was agaisnt civilians that they called terrorists.
i met many germans ex-soldiers when i was younger during my shooting competition time and none were not nice and none did nothing wrong during that time if you listened to them: wonder how the atrocities were committed? by ghosts ... half my family were killed but those nice people ...
some soldiers paid their life by not following orders ... remembers nurnberg trials: befeld ist befeld or i you prefer an order is an order is not the right answer to defend in court ...
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I've met ex SS troops and many of them didn't enter the SS voluntarily. They were conscripted.
I knew one fellow from Austria, that spent 8 years in a Soviet Gulag and the only reason he got out alive, was because he was good at chess and made decent Vodka on a still.
He didn't sleep much, but lived to 95. He didn't hate Jews, but did nothing to stop the Genocide. Did nothing to support it either.
While he was in Russia, he fully admitted participating in wiping out civilians that were behind their lines. Most of them were docile, but the ones that weren't killed a lot of Axis troops.
War is what it is.
On the battlefield, troopies do what they have to if they want to go home.
Very few of them go home saints.
I met and spoke with a lot of ex SS mercs in Africa and Brazil. You wouldn't have known what or who they were when they weren't working.
They usually drank to much, laughed to hard and many were drug addicts. There was no place for them to call home and they knew it.
Many troops from all sides came home with memories of atrocities they committed, such as not accepting the surrender of an enemy combatant, or putting a comrade out of his intolerable pain.
Things may be a bit better now, but it likely depends very much on which armed force the troopie is fighting with.
Yes by the end of the war, Germans were being drafted into the SS at gun point. Jorg Sprave (slingshot channel on YouTube) goes into his family history in an episode where he's showing off a Nazi dagger. Apparently his father was a coal miner who was forced into the SS in the final days of the war.
The Nazi genocide is a separate matter and not defensible, but all sides committed what a modern person would call atrocities. Carpet bombing cities, shooting prisoners in the heat of battle, reprisals against towns with partisans in them, looting and burning civilian property... And so on.
Who gets tried afterward was a function of who got defeated.
Who gets tried afterward was a function of who got defeated.
I'd just be on the lookout for an intact building with a working dishwasher and a power source.... remove the stock and throw all the metal bits on the pots n pans cycle with no soap.....
oil and shoot.
Seriously though.... if it really mattered , coming up with some water to boil and pour thru the action wouldn't be very difficult unless you found yourself fighting in the desert. Even then if you found yourself without water to clean your gun..... you will be dying of thirst too.
oil and shoot.
Seriously though.... if it really mattered , coming up with some water to boil and pour thru the action wouldn't be very difficult unless you found yourself fighting in the desert. Even then if you found yourself without water to clean your gun..... you will be dying of thirst too.
i have to come here to learn the history of the ss ... thank you so much guys: when you have time i encourage you to travel across europe and visit some camps and some momunents made after ss enters in those places ... to name a few: loiblpaB, dachau, auschwitz, rab, babiyar and oradour sur glane (they left the village how it was after the ss division das reich left the village for to always remember what was done ... ) i should continue but it will be in vain ...
Not a soldier and never been in a war but I’m guessing you wouldn’t be too worried about cleaning your gun , any gun while in an active war zone . It would likely be a quick clean and lube and just continue using it .
Also from my experience corrosive ammo doesn’t cause rust right after shooting . I’m willing to bet if u shot it daily with corrosive with a quick clean and lube here and there in between it wouldn’t just rust to shreds
Obviously it’s incredibly circumstantial. In my own experience that’s usually how it went, especially with rifles. Quick wipe down with a rag and some oil and call it a day. If you’ve been shooting a lot, or it’s caked with sand/mud, you’re field stripping it and giving it a thorough cleaning. Machine guns are definitely a lot more picky and needed to be broken down and cleaned often, especially after shooting. If you’re not busy with other stuff, weapons maintenance is a pretty common task, starting with the company level weapons, moving down to platoon, then section and finally individual. I think the Army definitely focuses on cleaning weapons a little too much sometimes, but at the same time, it’s definitely important
I've been to some of those places but close to 45 years ago. You're right, the atrocities were above and beyond what most of us can imagine, even though a lot of such things are still going on regularly, in Ukraine, Africa and the Middle East, to name a few.
I went back looking for "family" and in many places there were no existing records of their existence. The only record of those people were in old bibles here in Canada.
Trying to get information from the bureaucrats at the time only drew blank stares and no help of any sort.
Unless they've been there and done that, like most of the recent immigrants, most North Americans have no idea of what goes on now or went on back then.
When I was a kid, racism was just part of a normal day, same goes for religious differences, ###ual preferences and the list goes on.
This still goes on, without any change, in many parts of the world.
I have a lot of respect for most of the immigrants I've met.
It takes a lot of courage to leave everything behind and start over in a completely different environment. Most try very hard and do a good job of it.
A good friend moved back to Poland recently. Many on this site dealt with him, Martin, from Corwin Arms. He just never felt at home in Canada, but he doesn't have much to say against it, other than its politics and ever encroaching socialist agenda.
I spoke with him a few months ago. He lives appx 10km from the Ukraine border and has seen the flashes from the artillery shells exploding at night.
Thanks for the lesson in virtue, but I've been to the concentration camps, the D-Day beaches, etc. I'm in no way defending the SS or the holocaust and if you took it that way, that says more about you than it does about me.
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Diesel and engine oil, is what Dad said the guys used to clean their AKs. Not everybody has the luxuary of Otis cleaning kits, cotton swabs, CLP.
Sure, because ak-74's and their ammo are everywhere in north america. Oh wait...
