List of Common World War II Infantry Weapons - Soviet Union

Soviet Union

Handguns

  • Nagant M1895 revolver
  • Tokarev TT-30/TT-33 semiautomatic pistol

Rifles

  • Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944 bolt-action rifle
  • Tokarev SVT-38, SVT-40 semiautomatic rifle
  • AVS-36 semiautomatic rifle - taken out of service in 1941
  • Fedorov Avtomat automatic rifle
  • SKS (semiautomatic rifle, tested in combat in very small numbers at the end of the war)

Submachine Guns

  • PPD-40
  • PPSh-41
  • PPS
  • MP 40 (captured from German forces)

Machine Guns

  • DP-28 Light Machine Gun
  • DShK 1938 Heavy Machine Gun
  • DS-39 - production stopped 1941
  • PM M1910 medium machine gun
  • SG-43 Goryunov medium machine gun - 1943 onwards
  • RPD (used in the last stages of the war)
  • MG-42 (captured from German forces)

Anti-Tank Weapons

  • PTRD-41 Bolt-action Anti-Tank Rifle
  • PTRS-41 Semi-Automatic Anti-Tank Rifle

Grenades

  • F1 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
  • RGD-33 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
  • RG-41 Anti-Tank Hand Grenade
  • RG-42 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
  • RPG-43 HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Hand Grenade
  • RPG-6 HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) Hand Grenade
  • Molotov Cocktail

Flamethrowers

  • ROKS-2
  • ROKS-3

Sniper Rifles

  • Mosin-Nagant M1891/30, M1938, M1944 (scoped)
  • Tokarev SVT-38, SVT-40 (scoped)

Swords

  • Shashka

Knife

  • NR-40

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Famous quotes by soviet union:

    “Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.”
    —Stalinist slogan in the Soviet Union (1920s)

    “If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “In the Soviet Union everything happens slowly. Always remember that.”
    —A.N. (Arkady N.)

    “If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
    —Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)

    “Nothing an interested foreigner may have to say about the Soviet Union today can compare with the scorn and fury of those who inhabit the ruin of a dream.”
    —Christopher Hope (b. 1944)