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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 239567, member: 33"]Greg, the last two words you listed (on the red flag) are <b>Ворошиловский стрелок </b>(Voroshilovsky shooter or sharpshooter). I haven't figured out the Russian letters for the other part of what you wrote, especially that first part.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could the first part be <b>осдав?</b> The rest looks like it would be <b>и а хим </b>It's possible that there could be acronyms or abbreviations in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, seeing the gun in the image on the Russian one, it has something to do with shooting. There was actually a Russian movie from 1999 called Voroshilov Sharpshooter (Ворошиловский стрелок) -- here is a description of it:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroshilov_Sharpshooter_(film)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroshilov_Sharpshooter_(film)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroshilov_Sharpshooter_(film)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 239567, member: 33"]Greg, the last two words you listed (on the red flag) are [B]Ворошиловский стрелок [/B](Voroshilovsky shooter or sharpshooter). I haven't figured out the Russian letters for the other part of what you wrote, especially that first part. Could the first part be [B]осдав?[/B] The rest looks like it would be [B]и а хим [/B]It's possible that there could be acronyms or abbreviations in there. Anyway, seeing the gun in the image on the Russian one, it has something to do with shooting. There was actually a Russian movie from 1999 called Voroshilov Sharpshooter (Ворошиловский стрелок) -- here is a description of it: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voroshilov_Sharpshooter_(film)[/URL][/QUOTE]
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