The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by LordPeterII (talk) 18:41, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Personally I think aspects like the short lifespan of the Soviet or getting arrested by the people they were trying to buy guns for are more interesting than the proposed hook, but this hook is still interesting enough. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 05:46, 21 October 2022 (UTC)