Recently I had a chance to the hand a PPSH-43 SMG which is a product improved PPSH-41 which was designed by Sudaev. Seeing it made me think think about a couple of firearms you never hear much about.
First
PPS wz. 1943/1952
Which is a polish variant of the PPS-43 but instead of having the over folding butt stock of the PPS-43 it had a fixed wooden bustock more like the PPSH. (The Polish also made there own versions of the PPSH-41 and PPS-43)
anyway here is a picture of the Wz1943/52
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rgLL4e_UAY.../s1600-h/5.jpg
I really like the PPSH-41 and the PPS-43 I think like typical soviet made weapons they are brutally effective and simple. I also love 7.62X25mm!! I also think that many of these types of firearms might appear in poland in the hands of reserve units and perhaps among resistance groups like in the city of Krakow.
The other is the PM-63
Which is a completely polish design and I think one of the coolest SMG's ever made. Its a blow back 9x18mm with a reciprocating slide like a pistol but its not simply a machine pistol like the Stechkin or the Berretta 93R. Its is small compact, light weigh has an almost invisible folding metal stock and forward grip that folds down from the front. 15 or 25 round magazine capacity makes it quite compact its often comapared to the Czech Skorpion but in my opinion the PM-63 is a much better small SMG.
here is a excellent link about it
http://kalashnikov.guns.ru/foreign/h...dkri/Pm-63.htm
I originally learned about it from the Iranian hostage siege and from a series of books from the 1980's called "combat and survival"