Unusual Russian dagger

Aurangzeb · 7th January 2007, 02:54 AM

Hello Ariel!

Thank you, very interesting information! I finally have a knife from my homeland, so nedless to say this knife is going to get special treatment! I guess when one is looking forward to spending time in the GULAG one has time to make good knives!

All joking aside I can only imagine what the finished product was used for. So this is the "zip-gun" gun knives!

How long did the Soviets have the policy of banning knives?

Mark...

ariel · 7th January 2007, 04:21 AM

Are you originally from Russia?
The policy was in effect as long as I can remember: till mid-70s..
Likely, until the collapse.

Aurangzeb · 7th January 2007, 05:05 AM

Hello Ariel!

I was born in Slocum, Pennsylvania. My Great-Grandfather was a Cossack who fled Russia right before the Bolsheviks overthrew the Tzar. But I still consider it "Mother Russia"!

I speak some Russian that my grand-father taught me(and still is). I have a bad tendancy to start yelling in Russian when I get mad or mix in the occasional Russian word here or there!

Mark...

ariel · 7th January 2007, 05:17 AM

Well, kid, for a modest honorarium of a shashka or two I can teach you some Russian that will make your cossack great-grandfather blush in his grave

7th January 2007, 02:54 AM	#1
Aurangzeb Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 306	Hello Ariel! Thank you, very interesting information! I finally have a knife from my homeland, so nedless to say this knife is going to get special treatment! I guess when one is looking forward to spending time in the GULAG one has time to make good knives! All joking aside I can only imagine what the finished product was used for. So this is the "zip-gun" gun knives! How long did the Soviets have the policy of banning knives? Mark...

7th January 2007, 04:21 AM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Are you originally from Russia? The policy was in effect as long as I can remember: till mid-70s.. Likely, until the collapse.

7th January 2007, 05:05 AM	#3
Aurangzeb Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 306	Hello Ariel! I was born in Slocum, Pennsylvania. My Great-Grandfather was a Cossack who fled Russia right before the Bolsheviks overthrew the Tzar. But I still consider it "Mother Russia"! I speak some Russian that my grand-father taught me(and still is). I have a bad tendancy to start yelling in Russian when I get mad or mix in the occasional Russian word here or there! Mark...

7th January 2007, 05:17 AM	#4
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	Well, kid, for a modest honorarium of a shashka or two I can teach you some Russian that will make your cossack great-grandfather blush in his grave