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Has anybody ever taken your picture and asked for your story?

Because the soviets were a command economy they ended up with tons of excess in some areas due to small mistakes and corruption. A batch of tanks would get painted the wrong color and get stored away for all time, or would have been made purely because the factory owner was someone's cousin.

This wastefulness was a part of their collapse, but now leaves Russia with a potentially huge cache of forgotten weapons that were stored brand new without any record.

We probably don't know about most of it, but also maybe they don't know about it all either.