I found it interesting to learn that long after plastic replaced tin/lead alloys for making toy soldiers, they were still used to make toy soldiers in the USSR. I learned this when the Soviet Union collapsed, and its citizens starting traveling more frequently to the West. Russians started showing up at flea markets here in the US, selling all kinds of things, among them, metal toy soldiers. I don't mean the connoisseur figures sold by vendors like Aero-Art, but items finished in gloss with simple detail, meant to be played with. I also found the simpler half-round figures, in other alloys, figures of stylized Soviet troops, sold in simple cardboard boxes with basic labels. It was something I'd never seen before. I do wish now I had bought the finely painted figures that some of them brought over. I could have traded a pair or two of jeans for them, back then.

What beautiful and artistic miniatures they are!

hello my name is ihsan i am from Indonesia, i also collect tin soldiers in Indonesia

and long may they live!

I love toy military guys

I want some old crawling soldiers

The St. Petersburg knights are the best in the world.

SLAVA UKRAINI!