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12-14-2022 06:22 PM
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Nice find
Nick
"In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen men fight so hard." - SS Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm Bittrich - Arnhem
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Nice example of a Red Army shovel produced at the Komintern factory (КОМИНТЕРН), originally the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory.
If I am correct, they were produced in Kharkiv between 1936 and 1941.
In 1941 the factory was transferred to the town of Nejvo-Shaytansky in the Sverdlovsk Oblast (НШЗ-Нейво Шайтановский Завод)
I do not know what exactly the inscription NEKO (НЕКО) stands for, but I have seen this several times on Soviet WWII utensils. I suspect it means something like decommissioned or rejected.
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In my collection I have only one object, which also has this inscription. The object is an aluminum Krasniy Vyborzhets teaspoon (Красный выборжец чайная ложка).
By the way, it is "ne kond." (не конд.) and not "ne ko" (не ко) as I assumed earlier.
Almost nothing can be found about this Russian abbreviation. Still, I suspect that the inscription means something like "decommissioned".
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