Lets say that Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the Automatic Kalashnikov, is born ten years earlier, and as a result, the AK-47 becomes the standard infantry rifle ten years earlier (with out the help of Hugo Schmeisser). This would put the rifle in the USSR army around the time that Nazi-Germany invaded Poland. How would this affect the war? Would it affect it at all? Would the Germans try to create an even better rifle?
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