In the taiga winter there is no such place in the military. If just left outside and no snow fall it'll take some days before the clothes would be dry or at least dryer.
Why, it should work even when cold. Actually we were told not to take AKs into the warm tent (if we had one) condensation and after that ice caused some funny situations like solidly frozen gas pistons. Not so funny if it had been war time.
In the winter a stove warmed tent has very high humidity because of the snow floor and everybody trying to dry equipment. Take a gun in from -35C to +20C and 90% humidity the gun is almost instantly thoroughly wet.
All who left it laying around found there uzi's gone the next morning... They were taken by the sergeant as a lesson to never leave your weapon laying around. Imagine telling your sergeant you lost your uzi which he already knows because he took it. That was fun for the whole platoon minus 3 soldiers 
