Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Leaning Westward: Galils for Estonia" video.

@modarkthemauler The Swedes and Danes were jealous of our Valmets, which are awfully similar to the Galil, when I served with them in Lebanon. Having to lug their heavy G3 variants and ammo on foot patrols must've had something to do with it. Good shots, though, especially the Danes.
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@mjfan653 Interesting that you keep the oldies around as well. When I served in the Finnish Armed Forces in 1986-1988, we still kept Stens in ready storage, in addition to war-booty Degtyaryovs. In NCO school, we had to strip them, too. Our ex-Imperial Russian Arisakas were reportedly swapped with these Stens after WW2. Later, as a reservist, we made semi-clandestine trips to Estonia to train up the locals. Amusingly, all we had for rifles were plywood cutouts. One trainee didn't like it and brought along a Kar98K, which his family had kept hidden since the end of the war. I can imagine what the Soviet occupiers would've done to them had they found out.
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