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SOVIET TM-35 LANDMINE

nder the leadership of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviet Union expanded its indigenous arms industry as part of the dictator’s industrialization program. That resulted in the development of many notable small arms including the DP-28 light machine gun and the TT-33 semiautomatic pistol, while those efforts eventually led to introduction of such weapons as the SVD-40 main battle rifle and

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