More diverse small arms in Warsaw Pact countries?

With the exception of the Czechoslovaks who kept pre-WWII weapons industries going through the Cold War and had a number of unique machine guns and rifles, all the Warsaw Pact nations seemed to have contented themselves with exact copies or minor variations of standard Soviet kit. Was their any particular reason for this, and if so why were the Czechs exempt?

Could for instance, the DDR have made and issued an STG in 7.62x39?
 

Khanzeer

Banned
Interesting
Could the WP nation esp DDR and Poland improve on pirated copies of western arms ?
Esp FN FAL and maybe Uzi ?
 
Interesting
Could the WP nation esp DDR and Poland improve on pirated copies of western arms ?
Esp FN FAL and maybe Uzi ?
Any reason why they'd want to copy the FAL?

On the subject of Poland, I imagine they could bring back the FB Vis once the Soviets introduce the 9x18mm Makarov round.
 

Khanzeer

Banned
Any reason why they'd want to copy the FAL?

On the subject of Poland, I imagine they could bring back the FB Vis once the Soviets introduce the 9x18mm Makarov round.
No real reason I can think of, but would be nice to see WP infantry with something other than AK
Plus it has a bad ass hard hitting look
 
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