I sold hundreds back before Klinton stopped the importation of the Ruskies. Stock was blued, some few were black parked but only if rebuilt. Saw no, and I mean NO, painted Ruskie SKS or Albanian (blue), Romanian (blue), hmmmm, there seems to be a pattern here..... Chinese (blue), Yugoicon (blue, not counting rebuilt in the USAicon), and probably a couple I can't remember, but they were blue also.