Having just become the owner of a pair of beautiful 1948 M44s via the Harrisburg PA gun show (my post on that trip just vanished with the old boards), I've gotten curious about the postwar M44s. With WWII (oops, I mean the "Great Patriotic War," of course) over, where would new-production Soviet M44s most likely have been deployed in 1948? Since they hadn't been through the grind of WWII, were large numbers of them ever rearsenaled?
I've done a bit of web searching on this topic but haven't turned up anything useful. Can any of the experts on the history of the M44 shed some light on where and how the late postwar M44s were used? Thanks.
I've done a bit of web searching on this topic but haven't turned up anything useful. Can any of the experts on the history of the M44 shed some light on where and how the late postwar M44s were used? Thanks.