Gentlemen,Let me be cynical here for a moment and remind you that these are not real Soviet era pistols. Recently, somebody at CZ must've been thinking: "How can we sell another 75b to people who already have several of them? Hmm, how about slapping a red star on the slide and engraving some Cyrillic letters so they look like they were made for and used by the Evil Empire. Then we'll send them to America. They will eat it with a spoon."These CZs are about as authentic as the "collectibles" from Franklin Mint. But it's your money.