Original RKKA WW2 flashlight?

[RKKAFan]

Hello guys,
can you tell me, if this flashlight was used by Red Army during WW2? Found it in a book, but I read in Russian forums, that members dont believe that its a WW2 item.
Thanks a lot!

[dimmuborgir95]

Wadim, here's a link to a good Russian flashlight forum

http://forum.fonarevka.ru/showthread.php?t=1412&page=2

http://forum.fonarevka.ru/showthread.php?t=389&page=49

http://forum.fonarevka.ru/showpost.php?p=41041&postcount=13

[RKKAFan]

Thank you, but I dont really understand the text. Is there anything written about the age of this type? I guess its postwar, cause looks very modern with the green and red refractor.

[dimmuborgir95]

They write that postwar.

[RKKAFan]

Ok thank you, then info in the book is wrong.

[Bagration]

Could be a old book it's true that now with internet and the multiple forums it's more easy to identify items than before

[RKKAFan]

Yeah old, but I would like so much to find a WW2 light. Compared with the German mass products, the Soviet lamps are so rare.

[dimmuborgir95]

PS By the way, cigarettes "Belomorkanal", that appear on the same picture, also after the war.



During the war they looked very different:



This error is common among foreign re-enactors of the Red Army, apparently she has appeared thanks to such books. I doubt very much that at the front (except the "big bosses"), someone could afford smoke those cigarettes - at war all smoke homemade cigarettes from newsprint, full of strong cheap tobacco ("mahorka"). They cigarettes were called differently - "samokrutka" or "kozya nozhka" ("goat leg").

[RKKAFan]

Yes the cigarettes on the first photo have a postwar ГОСТ-number. But I still dont understand the Russian ГОСТ system. I saw matches with ГОСТ XXXX-45, and they were produced in the 50s. So the last number seems not always to be the year of production.

For example:

This "Belka" matches have ГОСТ-number 1820-45:



But were produced between 1953-1957....

[dimmuborgir95]

ГОСТ,s - it is rather complicated thing.