Russian Kid’s Battlefield Pickups after the Battle of Stalingrad

You would get in big trouble if you tried to save any of those and have them discovered by the NKVD, unless you knew about the value of this stuff decades (like 60 years) later and preserved them in some kind of oil underground. However, the city was a total mess after the battle. Authorities pretty much built new houses on top the demolished ruins and whatever was underground. They keep finding air bombs and whatever hasn’t rusted yet every time they have some big construction project and need to dig deep.

That’s tens of thousands of $$$ of Nazi small arms