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Note: This item sold in our shop in January 2017. In today’s post, we’ll be looking at a rarely seen item – the Soviet M-36 steel battle helmet.  Original Soviet militaria from WWII and before is generally uncommon in the United States for a number of reasons: The American and Soviet Armies did not have a lot of interaction in the War, so there was limited opportunity for trade of equipment. The political situation after the War made importation of Soviet equipment into the United States problematic at best. Today, the Russian Government has cracked down on the exportation of their country’s WWII items, declaring them to be “national treasures.” The few items that have made it into US collections generally seem to have come from the Soviet Union in the early 1990’s, when the political situation in Russia meant a free-for-all, with even museums selling their inventory for American dollars. … Read More