A chilling thought indeed! but interesting.
I have had this particular M36 since 1969, well back in the cold-war era which pre-dates the wave of Eastern European super-fakes we are currently afflicted with.
I attach close ups of the mottoe etch and the tang mark for my dagger. This tang mark I have personally seen only on the early all steel Type "1"'s, but Tom Wittman's SS book page 164 shows this emblem on the tang of an M7/29 - although there is not an etch pattern correlation with my dagger.
