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I am not excited. I don't know the legal situation in Russia, but most countries have laws protecting ww2 sites.

I have no idea who took these pictures and if it was an official excavation, but illegal excavations on ww2 sites by guys using metal detectors are a big problem in Russia. They are usually doing it to sell the stuff they find to collectors and they have no problem to dig up war graves. You can even buy steel helmets together with the skull of the person who wore it from these guys.

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As military archaeology, riveting. As digging up dangerous, unstable explosive ordnance, self-correcting--ultimately. As grave desecration (if that's what this is), disgusting. As potential crimes (may or may not be, and not merely for ww2 sites, but for guns and explosives), probably multiply actionable. As horrors beyond imagining...

Regards,

John Kettler

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