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Old 02-16-2013, 11:53 AM
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As for the first examples - that guy jumping the Berlin wall in NVA uniform - has he not got an AK? When was that anyways?
One of the most famous photographs of the Cold War ...
It still gives me the shivers.
Hans Conrad Schumann fled on 15. August 1961. And he was equipped with a PPSch-41.

Here is his story and the famous pic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schumann
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