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Bair · by **Bair** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:39 am

Have a look about what NOT to do during battlefield excavations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dG455RFCs

Red Army greetings,

Bair

Starshiiy Rob · by **Starshiiy Rob** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:25 am

Apart from the obvious disrespect to what they are unearthing and themselves, what a bunch of brain donors... :shock:

I particularly cringed when I saw them rolling mortar bombs down a bank, RIGHT ONTO THE PRESSURE FUSE OF OTHER MORTAR BOMBS! Don't forget, when Mr. mortar round has been buried for nearly seventy years, he isn't your friend anymore.

andrei ivanovih · by **andrei ivanovih** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:38 pm

I have seen this behavior and some far worse on the WW1 battlefields in northern France and Belgium.The mind boggles,it really does.

Yoeri · by **Yoeri** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:24 pm

I see no problem in dealing with ordenance in this way, this problem will solve itself...... :twisted:

andrei · by **andrei** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:51 pm

maybe one of those shells will do the world a favour

Samuel Amer · by **Samuel Amer** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:38 pm

what a load of nonces, serves them right if they get blown up

Kozlov · by **Kozlov** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:09 pm

I suggest those guys are probably EOD actually... a bit slapdash, but none the less known what they are doing...

Starshiiy Rob · by **Starshiiy Rob** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:30 pm

No, the EOD search parties are uniformed and sober while on duty. The people who went to Leningrad this January met their boss after the battle, a really nice guy who brought his own vodka.

These are unofficial excavators. No EOD people would be that cavalier with potentially live ordnance, surely.

Kozlov · by **Kozlov** on Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:39 pm

So explosives are freely available in Russia??

Tank · by **Tank** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 3:56 am

WHAT THE SH*T!!!!!, i don't believe people can be so destructive and stupid on battlefield excavations! thats got me really angry - i mean really, archaeology is all about the destruction of archaeological in the sence of taking artifacts out of their context, not litrally blowing up the entire site and all the artefacts! grr none of that behaviour on my archaeological expedition...

Kozlov · by **Kozlov** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:09 am

But I don't see that video as any attempt to recover anything - they are digging up ordnance and making it safe by controlled explosion...

Sometimes I think we of this hobby are a little blinkered in our view of the world. To 99% of the world, thats not "history" its "dangerous industrial polution of the environment"...

Starshiiy Rob · by **Starshiiy Rob** on Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:36 am

Kozlov wrote:So explosives are freely available in Russia??

Certainly are! The ground charges at the battle at Nikolskoe(about twenty of them, very creditably simulating an opening bombardment) were half sticks of dynamite, dropped into holes augered into the earth and then covered with compost.
There is no health and safety culture beyond common sense. Brilliant explosions, though.

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Bunch of idiots at Sinyavino, near Lenignrad

Bunch of idiots at Sinyavino, near Lenignrad

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