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A gathering of citizens in front of Plovdiv's Municipal Council building voiced their opposition on Wednesday to a controversial proposal suggesting the relocation of the "Alyosha" Monument to the Soviet Army. The initiative, put forth by municipal councilors Vladimir Slavenski and Yono Chepilski of "Democrats for Strong Bulgaria" (DSB), has sparked debate and raised questions about the preservation of historical monuments.

The proposal recommends dismantling the "Alyosha" Monument from its current location atop Bunardzhik Hill and transferring it to Sofia's Museum of Socialist Art by the end of 2024. The councilors argue that the move is a moral gesture honoring Bulgarian history, national dignity, and the victims of the communist regime. However, the suggestion has triggered conflicting responses within the Municipal Council.

Last week, the "There Is Such a People" (TISP) group proposed a local referendum on the monument's fate, adding another layer to the ongoing discussion. Protesters at the demonstration displayed signs with slogans such as "Those who have built nothing are destroying everything" and "You can't protect history with a referendum."

Several Members of Parliament from the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), including Kristian Vigenin, Georgi Svilenski, Manol Genov, Ivan Petkov, and Ivan Chenchev, expressed their support for the protest. Chenchev emphasized that every monument deserves respect and a rightful place in history, advocating against attempts to rewrite history or engage in a war with memory and monuments.

The "Alyosha" Monument, a 10.5-meter granite statue unveiled in 1957, portrays a Soviet soldier holding a Shpagin submachine gun. Modeled after Russian soldier Aleksei Ivanovich Skourlatov, the monument stands as a historical symbol, and the proposed relocation has prompted a public outcry.

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The PPSh-41 (Russian: Пистоле́т-пулемёт Шпа́гина, tr. Pistolét-pulemyót Shpágina-41, lit. 'Shpagin's machine-pistol-41') is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin as a cheaper and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. A common Russian nickname for the weapon is "papasha" (папа́ша), meaning "daddy", and it was sometimes called the "burp gun" because of its high fire-rate.

The PPSh is a selective-fire submachine gun using an open bolt, blowback action. Made largely of stamped steel, it can be loaded with either a box (35 rnd) or drum magazine (71 rnd) and fires the 7.62×25mm Tokarev pistol round (but it also accepts 7.63x25mm Mauser),

After the German Army captured large numbers of the PPSH-41 during World War II, a program was instituted to convert the weapon to the standard German submachine gun cartridge -9x19mm Parabellum. The Wehrmacht officially adopted the converted PPSH-41 as the "MP41" unconverted PPSH-41s were designated "MP717(r)" and supplied with: 7.63x25mm Mauser ammunition (which is dimensionally identical to 7.62x25mm Tokarev, but slightly less powerful).

German-language manuals for the use of captured PPShs were printed and distributed in the Wehrmacht. In addition to barrel replacement, converted PPSH-41s also had a magazine adapter installed, allowing them to use MP 40 magazines. The less powerful 9mm round generally reduces the cyclic rate of fire from 800 to 750 RPM. Modern aftermarket conversion kits based on the original Wehrmacht one also exist using a variety of magazines, including Sten magazines.

As standard, each PPSh-41 came with two factory-fitted drum magazines that were matched to the weapon with marked serial numbers. If drum magazines were mixed and used with different serial numbered PPSh-41, a loose fitting could result in poor retention and failure to feed. Drum magazines were superseded by a simpler PPS-42 box-type magazine holding 35 rounds, although an improved drum magazine made from 1 mm thick steel was also introduced in 1944. Although the PPSh drum magazine holds 71 rounds, misfeeding is likely to occur with more than about 65. In addition to feed issues, the drum magazine is slower and more complicated to load with ammunition than the later 35-round box magazine that increasingly supplemented the drum after 1942. While holding fewer rounds, the box magazine does have the advantage of providing a superior hold for the supporting hand.

Sources:

Text - Wikipedia

Photos - World of Guns: Gun Disassembly

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PPSh-41 - Пистолет-пулемёт Шпагина

“Shpagin machine pistol”

Soviet Submachinegun used by the Red Army in WW2

Designed by Georgy Shpagin

Specifications:

Rate of Fire: 900 - 1000 rounds/minute

Muzzle velocity: 488 m/s

Feed system: 35 round box magazine / 71 round drum magazine

Sight: Iron Sight

Cartridge: 7.62x25mm Tokarev

Weight: 3.63 kg without magazine

Length: 843 mm

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Shared by Красный Рассвет with the message: “Сегодня Международный день борьбы против фашизма, расизма и антисемитизма’‘ meaning “Today is the International Day against Fascism, Racism and Anti-Semitism”

The image itself “ Рисунок К. Латуффа, посвящённый 70-летию Сталинградского сражения “ meaning “ Drawing by K. Latuff , dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad” as per this wikipedia article named ‘Battle of Stalingrad in popular culture’

In case you’re unfamiliar with what it’s about:

“This year, on the 9th of November, we mark the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism, in commemoration of the Kristallnacht pogrom that took place in 1938. We commemorate 80 years of the beginning of World War II as we continue mourning the millions of people killed in Nazi persecution and genocide – those targeted for being Jews, Roma, people with disabilities, sexual minorities, or prison inmates, as well as many ethnic and religious minorities, civilians, prisoners of war, and political opponents. 81 years have passed since, but it is clear that hate is not gone. It merely keeps changing its many faces and forms. Today, there are no signs saying “No Jews allowed”, but there is desecration of synagogues and tombs, and stereotypes of Jews continue to fuel conspiracy theories. Today, mainstream society has come to tolerate hateful views of Muslims and migrants from Africa and the Middle East. The Romani, historically the most marginalized group in Europe, still face large-scale discrimination and poverty, excluded from a society they entered 700 years ago. People are still being assaulted and killed for their characteristics or group memberships. “ from this link 

Another overview:

“9 November 1938, the ‘Kristallnacht’ pogrom was the first step towards the extermination of the Jewish Europeans by the nazis. SA Storm Troopers and civilians destroyed more than 8000 Jewish homes and shops, set synagogues on fire, imprisoned, injured and killed Jews all across the country. Pieces of broken windows covering the streets in many German cities gave rise to the name ‘Kristallnacht’ which freely translated means the Night of Broken Glass.Today this pogrom is seen as the symbolic beginning of the Holocaust, the systematic eradication of Jewish people which started with the discrimination and exclusion of the German Jews since 1933 and which eventually led to the murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5,5 million ‘enemies of the German state’: homosexuals, criminals and ‘asocial’ people, members of diverse religious communities, people with mental disabilities, political ‘offenders’ such as communists and socialists, Spanish republican refugees and minorities like Roma and Sinti and others. The ‘Kristallnacht’ reminds us that such terrible things did not start with deportations and concentration camps, but were developed step by step. Nazi propaganda and hate speech against Jews and laws depriving Jewish citizens of their rights (the ‘Nuremberg Laws’ i.a. stripped German Jews of their citizenship) were the first steps, eventually culminating in violence and pogroms.

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Every year, hundreds of organisations and informal groups in over 45 countries take an active part in the campaigns. People oppose hate in their communities and promote inclusion in these activities. It is time for you, too! The campaign is pluralist and open: there is place and space for all.We use different approaches but we have one shared vision of a society without hatred and discrimination, based on equality and human rights.“ from here

And a bit more from the wikipedia page on related subjects: “ Since 1995, UNITED coordinates an annual pan-European campaign on occasion of the 9 November, called International Day against Fascism and Antisemitism. Hereby, the approach is two-fold: while one part of the campaign aims to commemorate victims of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and, more broadly, victims of the Holocaust and of fascism throughout history; another part focuses mostly on contemporary issues of racism, antisemitism, right-wing extremism and neo-fascism. The campaign is joined by many different groups with independent actions which are collected by UNITED in an online map available at www.dayagainstfascism.eu “

The wikipedia article says the following about the weapon pictured in the image above:

“The PPSh-41 (Russian: Пистоле́т-пулемёт Шпа́гина, tr. Pistolét-pulemyót Shpágina, lit. 'Shpagin's machine pistol') is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin as a cheap, reliable, and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. A common Russian nickname for the weapon is "papasha" (папа́ша), meaning "daddy",[19] and it was sometimes called the "burp gun" because of its high fire rate.[20]The PPSh is a magazine-fed selective fire submachine gun using an open bolt, blowback action. Made largely of stamped steel, it can be loaded with either a box or drum magazine and fires the 7.62×25mm Tokarev pistol round.The PPSh saw extensive combat use during World War II and the Korean War, and it is common for monuments in Eastern Bloc countries celebrating the actions of the Red Army to have a PPSh-41.[21] It was one of the major infantry weapons of the Soviet Armed Forces during World War II, with about six million PPSh-41s manufactured in this period. In the form of the Chinese Type 50 (licensed copy), it was still being used by the Viet Cong as late as 1970. According to the 2002 edition of the Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II the PPSh was still in use with irregular militaries.“

Here’s a 1942 memo on its use showing basics on weapon description, functionality and disassembly.

And here’s “ a 1956 edition of the Soviet armorer’s manual for the PPSh-41 and PPS-43″ carrying even more detail.

Related also is the 1938 soviet military handbook on weapons, shooting techniques and training methods by P. D. Ponomarev or originally ‘Револьвер и пистолет-П. Д. ПОНОМАРЕВ’.

There is also the work of Kaplunov Y. - ‘Three secrets :Conversations about pistol shooting practice’ or originally ‘Каплунов Я. Три секрета. Беседы о практике пистолетной стрельбы’

While some of the information in all these may be considered outdated today all of them would have been relevant to how this weapon was used historically.

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Finnish soldier armed with captured PPSh-41 submachine gun in his frontline position at the Vuosalmi bridgehead. Karelian isthmus, July 24, 1944.

The PPSh-41, designed by Georgy Shpagin was the most common Soviet submachine-gun of the Second World War. More than five million PPSh submachine guns were produced by the end of the war.

Finnish troops captured their first PPSh-41 submachine guns in 1942 and some 2,500 had been captured by end of Continuation War. •••••••• Konepistoolimies Vuosalmen sillanpääaseman taistelumaastossa aseenaan sotasaaliina saatu PPSh-41 konepistooli, 24.7.1944.

PPSh-41 oli Georgy Shpaginin suunnittelema konepistooli, josta tuli toisen maailmansodan valmistetuimpia aseita jota valmistettiin sota-aikana yli viisi miljoonaa kappaletta.

Jatkosodan aikana Suomeen saatiin sotasaaliina n.2500 PPSh-41 konepistoolia. •••••••• [ sa-kuva | V.Hollming | 158705 ]

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• PPSh-41 Submachine Gun

The PPSh-41 Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina; is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin as a cheap, reliable, and simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Common nickname is "papasha", meaning "daddy". The PPSh is a magazine-fed selective fire submachine gun using an open bolt, blowback action. Made largely of stamped steel, it can be loaded with either a box or drum magazine and fires the 7.62×25mm Tokarev pistol round.

The impetus for the development of the PPSh came partly from the Winter War against Finland, where the Finnish Army employed the Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun as a highly effective tool for close-quarter fighting in forests and built-up urban areas. Copied and adopted by the Soviets for their PPD-40 and PPSh-41 submachine guns. A submachine gun, the PPD-40, was subsequently rushed into mass production in 1940, but it was expensive to manufacture, both in terms of materials and labor, because it used numerous milled metal parts, particularly its receiver. Shpagin created a prototype PPSh in September 1940, which also featured a simple gas compensator designed to prevent the muzzle from rising during bursts; this improved shot grouping by about 70 percent.

The new weapon was produced in a network of factories in Moscow, with high-level local Party members made directly responsible for meeting production targets. A few hundred weapons were produced in November 1941 and another 155,000 were made during the next five months. By spring 1942, the PPSh factories were producing roughly 3,000 units a day. Soviet production figures for 1942 indicate that almost 1.5 million units were produced. The PPSh-41 uses 87 components compared to 95 for the PPD-40 and the PPSh could be manufactured with an estimated 5.6 machining hours. After the German Army captured large numbers of the PPSh-41 during World War II, a program was instituted to convert the weapon to the standard German submachine gun cartridge – 9×19mm Parabellum. The Wehrmacht officially adopted the converted PPSh-41 as the MP41, German-language manuals for the use of captured PPShs were printed and distributed in the Wehrmacht.

The PPS submachine gun, an even simpler submachine gun, was later introduced in Soviet service in 1943, although it did not replace the PPSh-41 during the war. The Soviet Union also experimented with the PPSh-41 in a close air support antipersonnel role, mounting dozens of the submachine guns in forward fuselage racks on the Tu-2sh variant of the Tupolev Tu-2 bomber. More than five million PPSh submachine guns were produced by the end of the war. The Soviets would often equip platoons and sometimes entire companies with the weapon, giving them excellent short-range firepower. Thousands more were dropped behind enemy lines in order to equip Soviet partisans to disrupt German supply lines and communications.

After the Second World War, the PPSh was supplied in large quantities to Soviet-aligned states and Communist guerrilla forces. The weapon was widely used during the Korean War. The Korean People's Army (KPA) and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) fighting in Korea received massive numbers of the PPSh-41, in addition to the North Korean Type 49 and the Chinese Type 50, which were both licensed copies of the PPSh-41 with small mechanical revisions.

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Name: PPSh-2014 assault rifle

Origin: Soviet Union

Service: 2014-2037

Manufacturer: Morriellian Arms Plant, Scorpio Armoury (Originally Tula and Izhevsk Arsenals)

Produced: 2014-2037

Number Built: 10, 000, 000

Weight: 3.63 kg

Length: 843 mm

Barrel Length: 269 mm

Cartridge: 7.62x39mm

Action: gas operated, rotating bolt, M-16 style direct impingement.

Muzzle Velocity: 716.28 m/s

Effective Firing Range: 350 to 800 m

Fire Rate: 850-1000 rpm

Feed System: 80 round drums, 35 round box magazines, 30 round AK-47 magazines, 55 round SOG-33 casket magazines.

Fire Modes: Safe, Semi-Auto, Full Auto

Sights: adjustable rear aperture sight, front post

Materials: stamped adamantite, wood

Developed in World War II in the Soviet Union, the PPSh-41 was a submachine gun developed by Georgy Shpagin. It was a simplification of the expensive-to-make PPD-40 made by Vasily Degtyaryov, made for the purpose of easier wartime manufacture. Effective at short ranges, it outclassed most other firearms until the STG-44 came into being. However, this was clear because of the fact the STG-44 was an assault rifle, compared to the PPSh being an SMG.

Fast forward several decades, to 2013, and the Bouzac are at war with the Brotherhood. The Morriellians began to go through a process of arming themselves for war, as the Bouzac came calling for men. With the need for weapons that were easy to manufacture, they took the PPSh, and made some major changes to the design to be able to use the same 7.62x39mm round the Bouzac used in their assault rifles. In 2014, the PPSh-2014 was put into service.

To be able to use the 7.62x39mm round, the Arms Plant responsible for making Morriellian weaponry made some changes to the PPSh. They changed it from an open bolt, blowback operated design to one that uses a gas operated, rotating bolt system that works through a direct impingement system similar to that used by the M-16 assault rifle. Despite these changes, it is still very simple to operate, take apart, and clean.

However, the design wasn’t without flaws, some of which carried over from the original. The main one was the drum magazines. While they have a max capacity of 80 rounds, the absolute limit of rounds in the magazine before problems were encountered was 75 rounds. This was due to the spring within the drum becoming strained. For this reason, the 35 round magazines were also developed, to improve reliable feeding of ammunition into the gun.

It proved very well regarded by the Morriellian armed forces, and soon by the BEA when Scorpio Armoury began to make them as well. With their fast fire rate, they proved good at short range, though they can easily reach out past that with good accuracy. Brotherhood soldiers learned to fear the weapon soon after it was introduced. When it was taken out of service, it was quickly replaced by the hybrid rifle form, the PPSh-2037.

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DShK 38 YouTube 2

(DShK) The DShK 1938 (ДШК, for Дегтярёва-Шпагина Крупнокалиберный, Degtyaryova-Shpagina Krupnokaliberny, "Degtyaryov-Shpagin Large-Calibre") is a Soviet heavy machine gun firing the 12.7×108mm cartridge. The weapon was also used as a heavy infantry machine gun, in which case it was frequently deployed with a two-wheeled mounting and a single-sheet armour-plate shield. It took its name from the weapons designers Vasily Degtyaryov, who designed the original weapon, and Georgi Shpagin, who improved the cartridge feed mechanism. It is sometimes nicknamed Dashka (familiar form of female name Daria) in Russian-speaking countries, from the abbreviation. (History) The requirement for a heavy machine gun appeared in 1929. The first such gun, the Degtyaryov, Krupnokalibernyi (DK, Degtyaryov, large calibre), was built in 1930, and this gun was produced in small quantities from 1933 to 1935. The gun was fed from a drum magazine of thirty rounds, and had a poor rate of fire. Shpagin developed a belt feed mechanism to fit to the DK giving rise, in 1938, to the adoption of the gun as the DShK 1938. This became the standard Soviet heavy machine gun in World War II. Like its U.S. equivalent, the M2 Browning, the DShK 1938 was used in several roles. As an anti-aircraft weapon it was mounted on pintle and tripod mounts, and on a triple mount on the GAZ-AA truck. Late in the war, it was mounted on the cupolas of IS-2 tanks and ISU-152 self-propelled guns. As an infantry heavy support weapon it used a two-wheeled trolley which unfolded into a tripod for anti-aircraft use, similar to the mount developed by Vladimirov for the 1910 Maxim gun.[1] It was also mounted in vehicle turrets, for example, in the T-40 light amphibious tank. In 1946, the DShK 1938/46 or DShKM (M for modernized) version was introduced. In addition to the Soviet Union and Russia, the DShK has been manufactured under license by a number of countries, including the People's Republic of China, Pakistan and Romania. Currently, it has been mostly replaced in favour of the more modern NSV and Kord designs. Nevertheless, the DShK is still one of the most widely used heavy machine guns. In June 1988, during the conflict in Northern Ireland known as "the Troubles", a British Army Westland Lynx helicopter was hit 15 times by two Provisional IRA DShKs smuggled in from Libya, and forced to crash-land near Cashel Lough Upper, south County Armagh.[2] DShKs were also used in 2004, against British troops in Al-Amarah, Iraq.[3] In the 2012 Syrian civil war, the Syrian government said rebels used the gun mounted on cars. It claimed to have destroyed, on the same day, 40 such cars on a highway in Aleppo and six in Dael. (Anti-aircraft sight) Many DShK's intended for the close anti-aircraft role were fit with a simple mechanical sighting system that helped the gunner properly account for "lead" in order to hit fast-moving targets. The system consisted of two circular disks mounted side-by-side in a common framework. On the right, in front of the gunner, was a large "spider" sight that contained a line of small metal rings running from the center to the outer edge. On the left, in front of the loader, was a smaller disk with several parallel metal wires. In some examples, the sight was installed with the loader's sight on the right. To use the sight, the loader/observer would spin his disk so the wires were parallel to the target's direction of travel. A shaft running between the two turned the gunner's sight to the same angle. The gunner would then sight through one of the metal rings based on the estimated range and speed. (See also) FN BRG-15 KPV heavy machine gun List of Russian weaponry NSV machine gun (Soviet infantry weapons of World War II) Side-arms Nagant M1895 Mauser C96 TK pistol TT pistol Rifles and carbines Mosin–Nagant Fedorov Avtomat AVS-36 SVT-38/40 SKS Submachine guns PPD PPSh-41 PPS-43 Grenades M1914/30 RGD-33 F1 RG-41 RG-42 RPG-40 RPG-43 RPG-6 Machine guns M1910 Maxim Maxim-Tokarev DP PV-1 DS-39 SG-43 Goryunov DShK Anti-tank rifles and flamethrowers PTRD PTRS-41 ROKS-2/ROKS-3 Cartridges 7.62×25mm Tokarev 7.62×38mmR 7.62×54mmR 12.7×108mm 14.5×114mm

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Old Weapons

Blunderbuss - The Blunderbuss is an old-fashioned muzzle-loading firearm, This weapon is like an old shotgun, firing one bullet at a time through its large caliber barrel. The Blunderbuss could be considered to be a shotgun which was adapted for use in the military and defensive use or even serving with early police officers. This type of weapon is very effective at short ranges but lacks the same accuracy at long ranges, that’s why this weapon is mostly used for close quarter combat. 

Musket - Like the Blunderbuss, the Musket is a muzzle-loaded firearm normally fired from the shoulder. A soldier armed with a musket is designated with the title musketeer, muskets have replaced many weapons over the years one being the Arquebus rifle which was, in turn, replaces with the rifles we use today. The term Musket is applied to weapons which include the long barrel, flint lock, and loose gunpowder firing systems.

PPSh-41 - The PPSh-41 is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin. These cheap, reliable and simple guns were originally based off a previous gun, the PPD-40 this gun was a conventional wooden stocked weapon, fired from a single open bolt. This gun was also capable of selective firing meaning it was open to a lot more ammo types, this gun was later replaced by the PPSh-41. The PPSh-41 is magazine-fed selective firing machine gun, largely made out of stamped steel, it can be loaded with either a box or a drum magazine.

MP40 - The MP40 is also a submachine gun chambered in a 9x19mm round, this gun was designed and developed in nazi Germany and mainly used by the Germans during World War 2. The MP40′s advanced and modern design features made it a favorite weapon among the soldiers of World War 2, this weapon was given to infantrymen, paratroopers, and platoons fighting on the frontline. 

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