Reading Blood Red Snow and wondering soemthing...

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I'm reading Blood Red Snow: memoirs of a German solider and at one point he states a Russian appears at the top of their trench with his "Kalashnikov sub machine gun"
then one line later says it again... Is this just a mistake? or were there Kalashnikov sub machine guns in ww2?
Hopefully someone can slide in a give some insight?
 
No such thing that Im aware of. The only 2 russian SMG's in WW2 I know of are the PPSH 41 and PPS 43, neither of which are Kalashnikov designs. I dont believe Kalashnikov was involved in any gun designs until after WW2.
 
The book was written decades after the events in it occurred. The most likely explanation is that the author simply misremembered some of the details.
 
The Sudayev (PPS-42, PPS-43) was issued with the 35-round curved stick mag. It would not accept the 71-round PPSh drum.

With the folding stock and all, as well as the silhouette, it could be confused, over the years, with the later Klack.
 
cote_b said:
No such thing that Im aware of. The only 2 russian SMG's in WW2 I know of are the PPSH 41 and PPS 43, neither of which are Kalashnikov designs. I dont believe Kalashnikov was involved in any gun designs until after WW2.
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Those were my thoughts exactly.
Cdn303 said:
Or that the translator screwed up.

In The Forgotten Soldier there is some translating errors.
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Bought that one too! it's the next one that I'm reading.
I like seeing the Russian/German perspectives of things - to often the books that are getting the publicity and shows are the Americans here, American there - oh yeah the Canadians did something here... not sure what, but they were there. The Russian/German events led up to the cold war, we can't ignore it.
 
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