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Sounds like an earlier '45 from the info I've run across. If they managed to throw it together, inspect and ship it from Izhevsk to the heart of Germany before May of that year, it could have possibly been around for the battle of Berlin and the very end of the war. From the condition of the rifle it's far more likely it's only action was getting dipped in cosmoline and stored in a dusty warehouse for 50+ years, but it's not impossible.
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