The strict industrial utilitarianism of the 1930s Soviet project, perfectly captured by GFL. Tokarev built the TT-33 because the USSR was encircled and needed a cheap sidearm for mass mobilisation. Simplified Browning design. No manual safety. 7.62x25mm
@cookiefowh@sistemaISAR "Soviet imperialism" is an oxymoron. You Leftkkkoms and Anarkiddys invent fake definitions of imperialism because you can't cope with the fact that the USSR actually fought Western hegemony. You’re textbook useful idiots doing free PR for the empire. Read Lenin, and go organise.
History shows you need a vanguard and state capacity to beat imperialist armies. China, Vietnam, and Sankara literally proved that. Refusing to use state power because it's "authoritarian" only serves one class, the bourgeoisie.
@sistemaISAR "State capitalism" is the cope of people who have never been bombed. Proving once again that leftkkkom pol is just racism with Marxist vocab. They built state power to survive imperialism. Your purity neither liberates nor feeds.
The Stechkin APS was peak mil-industrial overreach. Selective fire for mass mobilisation was pure fantasy. The Makarov PM won standard issue in 1951 by being cheap and standardised. Just like in GFL, the Stechkin is a niche eccentric while Makarov is the universal standard.
T-t-t-t-t-t-today’s gun is the uhm,, stechkin APS m-machine pistol….
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This is a, uhh, selective fire…. Selective fire, uhm. Machine pistol. From the Soviet Union…. Designed by… Igor Stechkin? I think? O-oh jeez…. Take a look I guess… it also has a stock mount….