Were weapons ever sold at flea markets in East Germany?
A classmate told me today that he knew someone who bought weapons from the Russians at a flea market in the early 1990s, when they withdrew from East Germany. (Ak, Makarov, etc.) Were weapons really sold there back then? I can't really imagine that.
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In October the reunification was, so I don’t think so.
No flea market.
No. Anyone who owns weapons and wants to sell them will always find a buyer. It does not have to go into the flea market and this risk.
Certainly not on the flea market.
But there should have been cases where they were sold under the hand. Many people have long years of business with members of GSSD made. It is not to be excluded. However, I do not know a case where really became public.
But it was.
No weapons were sold on the flea market.
When the Russian army had to leave the GDR, everything that was not cute and nail-proof was shattered. This started with uniforms and ended at AK 47, mines even tanks.
These sales took place as in the Wild West on weeks and flea markets, in West Berlin, among others at Checkpoint Charlie.
In Burg near Magdeburg, the Russians sold Kalashnikov from the truck and nobody went in. This has come before their withdrawal and can not only have happened there. Pocket money upgrade at the foot crowd, while at the same time in Sperenberg Mercedes were driven in transport machines, you wanted to appear at home as an officer, stand-by and show what you can afford when it is economical.