RUSSIA FACTS

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Police Tools and Equipment :

Baton, pistol, AW-radio, camera, multi-tool knife, pen

KGB Spy Tools : (1954-91)

Disappearing ink gun, pen camera, pen-microphone, EN pen-gun [bullet/ tear gas]

Soviet Officer Map Case : (1945)

Maps, ruler, protractor, compass, pocket knife, pencils.

Cosmonaut Survival Kit : (1968)

Gun (rifle + shotgun + flare gun), machete, pocket knife, compass, signal mirror, matches & striker, fire starter, fishing kit, strobe light, penlight, med-kit, AW-radio, Space pen, mechanical pencil, Chinagraph pencil, marker pen.

Pilot Survival Kit : (2015)

Ration (meat, candy, sugar, biscuits, caffeine pills), canteen, machete, pistol, matches, fire starter, pocket knife, wire-saw, compass, GPS, desalination kit, water purification tablet, signal mirror, smoke flares, pen-flares, dye marker, penlight, radio, med-kit (Sulfide pills, Aspirin, morphine syrettes), insect repellent, map, manual, pencil.

Soviet Soldier EDC (1939-42)

Sewing kit, hygiene kit, playing cards, flashlight, RKAA ID booklet, ID papers, letters, photos, postcards, wallet, pocket knife, notebook, pencil.

Russian Prison Tattoos : (1930-50s)

The 3 categories-- 

"CK" for Ssylno-Katorzhny (hard labour convict), "SP" for Ssylno-Poselenets (hard labour deportee) "Б" for Begly (escapee). 

In 1846, VOR was replaced by "KAT"; the first three letters of the word for "hard labour convict" or katorzhnik.

The tattoos show a "service record" of achievements and failures, prison sentences, the type of work a criminal does, his "thief's family".

Other Facts :

# Ballistic knife (10"), KGB shoe-knife (2"), NR-40 knife (5.9"), NRS-2 knife pistol (6.2"), NR-2 knife (5")

# Soviet USSR dictator Joseph Stalin (1930s) carried a blue-pencil as an editor of newspaper, articles, party speeches and manifestos.

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