Assertion: submachine gun's design | /r/Synonym | the ppd
Facets:
value: by vasiliy degtyarev
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The weapon owes much to a 1934 design called the PPD by Vasiliy Degtyarev which was a near-direct copy of the German MP28; this was shelved owing to high-up Party members such as Molotov, Zhdanov and Malenkov sharing the common-at-the-time belief that submachine guns were not military weapons.