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I have NEVER seen a Soviet era consumer electronic good for sale in this country, except for a few radios sold as collector's items on Ebay. Well, I take that back-Around 1991-92, gunshows were flooded w/certain Soviet military paraphanalia-Pistols, ammo, a few Dragunov rifles, & nightscopes. I bought a "Baikal" pistol, its roughly equivalent to a 380 ACP, but it really shoots HARD, due to a poor grip design. I also got a night vision scope, a 1st generation design, which only worked for about a year before it checked out. I was told that they are basically unrepairable. In the late '70s, the Soviets started sending tractors & other agricultural equipment over here to sell. It was sort of a bad joke. The stuff was CHEAP, to be sure, but it was very crude, & trying to sell Rooskie tractors to super-patriotic red-blooded American farmers was somewhat of an exercise in futility...
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