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What if the Soviets had provided the North Koreans and later Chinese with SKSs and AK-47s to use in the Korean War? What impact would it have had on the US's views on small arms and the intermediate cartridge and would it have helped give the North Koreans an edge in the early fighting (beyond what they already had)?