{"id":102600,"date":"2026-09-25T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102600"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:41:28","slug":"how-true-was-lord-of-war-surplus-from-the-warsaw-pact-w-val-forgett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/how-true-was-lord-of-war-surplus-from-the-warsaw-pact-w-val-forgett\/","title":{"rendered":"How True was <em>Lord of War<\/em>? Surplus from the Warsaw Pact (w\/ Val Forgett)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NyFRot3ggfU?si=F-injd_t4ksHrwr6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 20 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a gold rush for the surplus guns held by all the various newly independent republics, as well as the Warsaw Pact nations. Lord of War is not far off &#8230; and Val Forgett was there, bringing guns into the US for Navy Arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 20 May 2026 When the Soviet Union collapsed, there was a gold rush for the surplus guns held by all the various newly independent republics, as well as the Warsaw Pact nations. Lord of War is not far off &#8230; and Val Forgett was there, bringing guns into the US for Navy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[831,7,5,1119,13,663],"tags":[108,1366,49,1266,433],"class_list":["post-102600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-coldwar","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-handguns","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qGQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102601,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102600\/revisions\/102601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}