Fighting with what you got
How about this shot, some 80 years ago this month, of Soviet Red Partisans during the liberation of the Crimean town of Bakhchysarai, April 1944. Drink in the diversity when it comes to hardware.
On the left is a 47-round pan magazine-fed Degtyaryov DP27/28 in the traditional Russki 7.62x54mmR caliber, then a German Maschinengewehr 13— an air-cooled conversion of the old water-cooled Dreyse Model 1918 in 8mm Mauser- with its distinctive 25-round horizontal box mag, as well as a Shpagin PPSh-41 burb gun in 7.62 Tok complete with its 71-round drum magazine. Talk about trouble for the supply guy!
The Reds fielded something like 800,000 partisans during the “Great Patriotic War.”
Of sad note from this period about the above town itself, under German/Romanian occupation, Bakhchysarai was “cleansed” of its Jewish population, and then when the Reds came back, Uncle Joe in turn ordered all the local Crimean Tatars deported as “traitors.”