&gt; I wouldn&#x27;t surprise me if this attitude extended to military hardware if the price was right (and in the right currency).<p>It did. I was in Krosno visiting there right up against the Ukranian border (about 35 km) around that time and there was a &#x27;black market&#x27; there that sold just about anything that could be carted across the border or that could move by itself. Regular army gear (including weapons and munition) were openly for sale, vehicles as many as you wanted and &#x27;larger stuff&#x27; (unspecified but it was pretty clear what they meant) to order.<p>Apparently you could even buy warplanes if you had the means to pick them up, and one dutch scrap metal trader did just that (and promptly got caught with 2 more-or-less combat ready Mig 21&#x27;s at the Dutch border in a large truck...).