Post-war TT Pistol with Nazi markings?

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So, I recently acquired a Polish Tokarev, which by the way shoots quite nicely... anyways, as I was taking it apart for cleaning, I observed some rather peculiar markings on the slide that can only be seen of the slide is removed. Basically it looks like a bunch of scattered symbols including swastikas. Not able to find any info on what exactly this would mean. The slide is dated 1952, has the oval 11 mark, and the serial number matches the frame and the barrel. Anyone know what this is all about? Here's a picture:

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Someone wasn't listening about the "doodle on paper" only. The markings seem to be made all from one short straight stamp, some was doing "exercises" is my guess in trying how many shapes he could make.
 
Swatikas have been around for thousands of years and used by many cultures.

The Nazi swastika had clockwise-pointing arms. The swastikas in the slide are counter-clockwise, so they're probably not Third Reich.
 
Inspection stamps are usually made up and assigned with no special thought as to what someone might think they mean. One instance is the Remington inspector who was assigned an anchor stamp; collectors often think guns he inspected were sold to the Navy, which was not true.

Jim
 
lets not forget it is 1952 gun;
7.62x25 was not a nazis caliber although an old 7.63 mauser round would be shootable through TT...
 
Radom would not produce their TT till the 50's...till the end of the II WW Soviet Union was nr1 enemy of Poland, Poland was using the 9mm para..
although tha Nazi Germany and Soviet Union were allies ...together started the II WW for two years were fighting as brothers so who knows...still the nazi markings on post was soviet gun made in Poland ... makes not much sense...
 
still the nazi markings on post was soviet gun made in Poland ... makes not much sense...
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The Poles despised and hated the Soviets (and still dislike the Russians), so maybe it was some inspectors idea of an appropriate stamp.
 
Whey do the Polish hate Russians?
Didnt the Russians save their butt in WW2?
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Well gee.....In WWII the Nazi's occupied Poland from 1939 to 1945 so the Soviets didn't do a heck of a lot to help there. Without the Brits and US, the Soviets would have been trampled by Hitler. Then after WWII, Poland became a Soviet State and the people lived under communism for approx 50 yrs. I figure that would be enough to brew up some hatred?
 
Whey do the Polish hate Russians?
Didnt the Russians save their butt in WW2?
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The Russians invaded Poland with their German allies - the NAZI's took western Poland and the Soviets took eastern Poland. Then the Soviets marched off all the Polish army officer corps to Katyn and massacred them, along with a significant portion of the civilian population.

The Germans were actually milder on the Poles than the Russians. The Germans only persecuted Jews while the Soviets persecuted just about everyone.

Later, after the Germans and Soviets fell out and went to war against each other, the Soviets re-occupied Poland and held it for 50 years. All in all, the Poles aren't to crazy about the Russians.
 
Thanks, I didnt know all that.
I have alwayse disliked the Germans, because of the Holocaust, but I guess the Russians are just as bad or worse.
 
Kodeac Bear

I couldnt get the video to play, tried to join YouTube, but that didnt work.
so I will have to ask, what is it about?
 
Hi, TX Hunter,

The fact is that dictatorships tend to exterminate their enemies, whether it is in the name of National Socialism or The People's Communism. Stalin killed far more of his own people than Hitler did, and Mao killed ten times as many as Stalin. All in the name of the greater good!

If you go by the Military Channel or the History Channel, you will learn that Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. You will NOT be told that the German armies did not cross the Russian border to do so, they merely crossed into the Russian sector of Poland. The Russian takeover of Eastern Poland as the Germans came in from the west has been deliberately ignored by most U.S. left-wing historians.

Then, in 1944, as the Polish underground fought desperately against the Germans, hoping every day for help from the Russians, Stalin deliberately stopped the Russian advance. His view was that it was better for the USSR if the Poles and the Germans killed each other. The more dead Germans, the easier Soviet armies would have it on the march to Berlin. The more dead Poles, the fewer freedom lovers to be exterminated after the Soviet conquest.

No, the Poles have no love for the Russians.

Jim
 
It's a scene from the Polish movie "Katyn" showing the massacre of the Polish Officer corps by the Soviets. It's a pretty grim clip. After the Germans and Soviets invaded Poland, the Soviet NKVD took all the officers they captured (about 22,000) to a forest and systematically shot them all in the back of the head with pistols. An assembly line...

The Germans released all their Polish prisoners and told them to go home and be civilians.
 
It's a scene from the Polish movie "Katyn" ...
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The Russians had a real bad habit of shooting than repatriating because they should have died in the fight.
It would be interesting if they deliberately marked them in this way as rebellion.
 
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