{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"m14brony's status on Friday, 14-Nov-14 04:22:08 UTC","author_name":"m14brony","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/m14brony","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/3729323","html":"@<span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/user\/32751\" class=\"url\" title=\"MetalTao\"><span class=\"fn nickname mention\">metaltao<\/span><\/a><\/span> The Tokarev SVT-40 is a semiautomatic rifle that was fielded by the Red Army during WWII. It was supposed to replace the Mosin-Nagant, but Stalinist blunders (crippling the armed forces with purges of officers, ignoring obvious signs of Hitler preparing for invasion, etc.) kept the Mosin-Nagant in service. It was easier to keep producing Mosin-Nagants on existing tooling. In spite of this, around a million SVT-40's were manufactured."}