Editing Soviet Rifles

In the bloodiest conflict in history of the world, even with massive technological and tactical innovation, the humble rifle had a place in its resolution. Despite the popular depictions from old propaganda, the brunt of the fighting wasn't massive tank formations sweeping majestically across the Russian steppes, but poor, freezing infantrymen manning defensive positions, assaulting across no mans land, or dying in droves for a city named after your leader. Russian riflemen in Flames of War are cheap and poorly trained, but come in some of the largest units in the game. Alternatively one can bring hero rifle units, fielding the much smarter and more survivable remnants of veteran soviet rifle units.

==Mid War==
===Regulars===

===Hero===

==Late War==
===Regulars===

===Hero===

===Shock Hero===

==In Real Life==
[[image:Mosin_Nagant_189130.jpeg|thumb|300px|right|The dreaded Moist Nugget, slayer of Fascists]]
The average Soviet soldier in World War II (or the Great Patriotic war, if you happen to be a Russofag) was armed with a Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle. A time tested design that had been in service for half a century at that point through World War I and '''two''' revolutions with a few tweeks. It was a bare bones five-shot gun, but was cheap to make, simple to service, robust and reliable and could put a 7.62×54mmR round through a Nazi at ranges up to 800 meters. The Soviets had attempted to replace it with the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle earlier in the 1940s but reliability issues and cost eventually had it withdrawn from service. The Fedorov Avtomat, a WWI automatic rifle, was also issued in limited numbers early in the war to make up for the lack of infantry-portable automatic weapons, and mostly saw action in the Finnish front where they were used up or destroyed. The Federov was a novel experiment, but it had obvious shortcomings.

The Red Army took heavy casualties in the early days of Barbarossa, large sections of the Red Army were overwhelmed and defeated in details. Part of this is is because the Vodka drinkers adopted tactics that would use infantry rushes to create a hole in the enemy line, then use tanks to exploit the break and surround any unfortunate Germans that didn't decide to run the moment their lines broke. 

In the early phases of the war numbers of POWs were captured by the nazis and [[Grimdark|subject to forced labor, starvation, casual brutality and cullings]]. That said, from 1943 onwards the exchange rate between Red Army and German forces eventually evened out as the Nazis lost the initiative.

This list is limited due to us having dedicated pages for some of these weapons, but these stand out the most.

*The Mosin-Nagant was a dated, but at least reliable rifle that served about on par with the Kar98. Due to the sheer number of the things produced, the Mosin saw service in every conflict post war. It even saw a boom in popularity in the 2010s due to it being cheap, but reliable.

*The PTRD was similar to the Panzerbusche in many ways, but it was a more modern design that retained service throughout the war. After failing hard to make the thing work, the Ruskis decided to relagate it to shoot light armored targets like Half tracks, armored cars, trucks, and <s>hospitals</s> extremely light tanks.

{{Soviet Forces in Flames of War}}