re: #69 Dark_Falcon

I agree with you completely. I also hope that the Chicago Police Department handles any arrest or questioning of the young men in a completely proper manner. I normally would add that caveat, but the CPD’s history regarding black people is stormy enough I think it needed. Especially right now, this sort of incident needs to be handled by-the-book.

Soviet Partisans, you can tell by their guns. Three of the visible weapons are DP machine guns, identifiable by their flat ‘pan’ magazines on top of the receiver. At least four Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifles are also visible.

Three machine guns means this band was reasonably well armed. But those seeking to use them as an example of ‘civilian resistance despite gun control’ will find themselves thwarted by the fact that those MGs and rifles were provided to the partisans by Red Air Force air drops.

The photo, which is from ushmm.org identifies the group as “Eastern European partisans” not members of the Red Army