These guns were found by a Russian archaeological team called "Yuri Gagarin" which publishes on its YouTube channel videos of excavations of WW2 relics from the battlefields of the war. Today, we'll take a look at another rare war relic found by the Yuri Gagarin team – an unexploded WW2 German propaganda shell.

Propaganda shells are artillery shells that have a bunch of rolled propaganda leaflets instead of the payload. These shells have a small powder charge right next to the fuse followed by a wad that separates the charge from the leaflets. Upon impact (or after traveling a certain distance if they had a time fuse), the fuse ignites the powder charge which shoots the leaflets from the tail of the shell.

The propaganda shells were a mean of psychological warfare. The idea was to shoot these shells into the enemy territory thus spreading a propaganda material that threatened or prompted the enemy personnel and civilian population to desert or surrender.