I think the actual reason was that the auto-loaders were in short
supply. The Soviets were building an over complicated Battle Rifle, (at
least over complicated for Russian Industry under war time stress), and
had plans to replace their standard infantry rifle with them, much as
the US was replacing the Springfield with the Garand . They lost a lot
of them in the initial stages of the German invasion. The Germans who
lacked a auto loading battle rifle used them to great effect. For the
Russians it was easier and faster to replace them with the old bolt
action rifles, so thats what the Russians did. Russia also started
building submachine guns in large quantities. Entire special assault
units were armed with PPShs when they became available, so it's quite
possible that it's an ordinary private solder, abet from an elite
assault unit.
Doug Franklin wrote:
> P. J. Alling wrote:
>
>
>>>> The AK47 was a post war design as well, the most used Russian SMG during
>>>> WWI was the PPSh-41 AKA the Burp Gun.
>>>>
>
> One of the sights I plan to see in Plovdiv next week is a monument named
> "Aliosha" or something like that (Anglicized, obviously). My Bulgarian
> friend tells me it's a "Tomb of the Unknowns". It's adorned by a statue
> of a WWII era Soviet infantry non-com or officer holding what appears to
> be a PPSh from the photos I've seen. I guess it could be a regular
> private soldier, but IIRC the Sovs didn't usually let less trusted
> soldiers than non-coms have automatic weapons unless they were crew served.
>
>
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