Can someone translate this Russian?

[gunnut1]

Don't need the canteen but I thought it was way cool! Just won it on Epay.

Can someone translate it for me?

http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/856020/1082456599431_ruskie_canteen.jpg

[Igor01]

It says "Spetsnaz". A clear example of a for-tourist-consumption-only Russian "militaria".

[gunnut1]

for-tourist-consumption-only


HUH?

[Igor01]

Originally posted by gunnut1
HUH?

It's a thriving industry - people create all kinds of "Soviet" or "Russian" items that don't exist in real life. A very simple yet effective recipe - take an ordinary Soviet/Item, then slap any number of Soviet/Russian patches/badges/insignia on it thus turning a regular soldier's (or civvie, doesn't matter) canteen or into a Special Forces Issue One Of A Kind "Spetsnaz" or "KGB" item "recovered from a former Soviet base at Bagram/Kosovo/Tbilisi during my last tour". In short - it's a regular Soviet infantry canteen with 60's-80's pattern cover that somebody equipped with a Spetsnaz patch that shouldn't really be there as these two are from completely different eras and canteens never have any labels on them.

If you ever go to Russia you'll see thousands of items like this sold at high tourist traffic areas, all of these would be pitched to you as "genuine Spetsnaz" of course.

[gunnut1]

Kinda what I figured. But I still think it is cool!

[Ezra Coli]

The patch and canteen are OK by themselves, that is a breast patch worj by Spetsnaz troops over the right pocket, and its cool on its own, the canteen is a standard Rudssian canteen, and also cool on its own.