At a Russian ammunition depot, detonators for shells were found bearing markings from Nazi Germany, which the USSR received in 1939–1940 under agreements with the Third Reich.
This was reported on Facebook by the Joint Forces press service.
The detonators were discovered by reconnaissance troops from the “Tur” unit. At first, they appeared to be ordinary trophies, but the swastika markings indicate their origin from the era of Soviet–Third Reich cooperation.
“On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union treacherously attacked Poland, which had already been severely weakened by fighting with the Wehrmacht. This is not the only case of cooperation between two totalitarian regimes. In August 1939 the USSR and Germany signed a commercial agreement, which was supplemented in February 1940. Under these arrangements the Soviet Union received military equipment, machine tools and technologies, and raw materials — including detonators for shells marked with a swastika,” the Joint Forces reminded.
The statement emphasizes that some of these detonators have survived in Russian depots and are still being used to kill people.
