Russian Partisan with a Lee-Enfield ?

I wouldn't be surprised...the Allies (Americans especially) were sending anything and everything to the Soviets to fight off "the invaders".
 
That's a cut-down CLLE carbine made by one of the Baltic states - Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia, all of whom used early-model Lee-Enfields before being annexed by the Soviets.
 
Agree with Nyles. There was a thread on Gunboards about the use of CLLEs by the Baltic states and pics of them cut to short lengthes.
 
I read somewhere (in these fine pages ?) that a large number of Lee-Enfield as well as Ross rifles were supplied to Russia. Perhaps during towards the end of the Czar regime ?

Also read at some point, that the Russian military had converted a number of these Ross rifles for competetion shooting, and winning ?

This picture of a Russian partisan carrying a Lee-Enfield most have been overlooked by the Russian censors, who normally delete most pictures of the Russian military, using or carrying any western arms and equipment :)
 
This is true. I have a picture of Factory Workers parading in Leningrad and all are carrying early Lee Enfields.

There was lots of .303 British in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia all of whom were supplied in 1919 by the British to fight the Bolsheviks with Ross, Lee Enfields, and P14s, as well as Lewis guns and other machineguns.

The invasion of Archangelsk is another matter. I assume there may have been caches left over but with the proximity of Leningrad to the Baltics I would assume the rifles were from there.
 
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