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Gotta disagree. The FG 42 was way cooler but tried to do too much in such a small package.
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That is another good one -- though I'm not holding my breath on getting a chance to shoot an FG42 anytime soon, or probably ever. (Though I seem to recall reading at some point that some company in Oregon was supposed to start building shooting replicas of the '42 for the WW2-reenactor crowd.)
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Just how many SG-44s would be available in Eastern Europe in T2K?
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Yugoslav paras were still issued them up to when the country imploded, so they'd probably be "-/R" down that way (I think the Yugos only one airborne brigade plus some assorted smaller SOF units that might have had them too).
The East Germans also used them on a very large scale early in the post-WW2 era (Czechoslovaks, too, I think) but as they stocked up on AKs they ended up selling or giving all of their StG-44s to their fraternal socialist allies in Syria. (Who in turn hooked up all sorts of dodgy groups in the Middle East and Horn of Africa, most recently Iraqi insurgents.) East Germany continued to make the ammo -- I think up until the wall came down -- but it was all for the export market.
Overall, I'd say there're probably more functional StG-44s in the Middle East in the Twilight timeline than there are in central/eastern Europe. The one possible question mark on that might be the weapons captured by the Russians. No idea if they passed theirs onto guerrillas and allied states, though I can't think of any accounts of them doing so (unlike the PPS and PPSh SMGs and SKSs they handed out by the boat load in Africa in lieu of AKs in the 60s and into the 70s, when they got more interested and started shipping better weapons that way).