Comments by "Kevin Oliver" (@kevinoliver3083) on "Everything Wrong with the Sniper Rifles in "Enemy at the Gates”" video.

  1. The image of Naval infantry using Maxim belts as bandoliers was a Bolshevik and then Soviet propaganda meme.
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  2. In the early stages of the Great Patriotic War Soviet Naval Infantry were mostly ordinary sailors deployed "straight off the boat". They were poorly equipped and much of their 7.62×54mm was loaded into Maxim belts. So they repurposed the Maxim belts as bandoleers. An image that became a propaganda trope.
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  3. Re the partisan carbine. As the front shifted, the Red Army often assimilated partisans directly into its ranks. Deploying them as infantry with minimal re-equipment, other than a uniform. If they had a functional weapon, firing standard issue ammunition, an ex-partisan might well keep using it, until they, or it, became a casualty.
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