Victory Day
75 years after the war, but hands, as they say, remember. And how can you forget, if more than two thousand Shpagin submachine guns - PPSh - passed through these very hands.
He came to Moscow, where the famous PPSh were assembled during the war, in 1942 as a thirteen-year-old boy. Shift - 12 hours. The norm is five machines.
“The laws were military. Until you handed over five machine guns during a shift, you weren’t allowed to leave the factory or issued a pass. So, we had one task and we knew ourselves that the front needed more,” says veteran Boris Davydov.
This is how they worked everywhere where PPSh were produced. The exact number of enterprises is still unknown. Only approximately: from 100 to 300 throughout the Union.
“Any hardware store could have made it. But the only thing is that the plant supplies the barrels and finished parts, they are assembled,” says tester Ildus Kurbanov.
Actually, this is what the Vyatsko-Polyansky plant did in the late 30s, it was then still located in Zagorsk near Moscow - it produced bobbins for thread. But on April 26, 1940, it was here that it was decided to launch mass production of PPSh. We didn’t make it in time for the start of the war. This had to be done during evacuation, in the Kirov region.
Mostly women and teenagers assemble machines. Georgy Shpagin's design turned out to be so simple and cheap that it did not require special qualifications. And at the same time the strictest quality control. There are four controllers for each barrel.
Iya Levi remembered for the rest of her life how she, at that time still a 16-year-old girl, once did not notice the defective mechanism for ejecting cartridges.
“I was so afraid! The master is coming to me, and I’m cowering like this, I’m thinking, that’s it, they’ll kill me now, I let the marriage happen, he’ll come to me, and I’ll at least hide under the conveyor belt... Well, he sees that the girl is hungry, downtrodden, what to take from her - then,” recalls Iya Levi.
Easy to make, it was just as easy to use.
“The most important thing is that in those days the level of education of the Red Army soldiers was very low. Then ordinary peasant guys, I apologize if someone doesn’t like it, could handle him at full height,” says Ildus Kurbanov.
And at the same time, reliability that is still unsurpassed, to which even modern automatic machines sometimes give in.
Judging by the mark, this particular example of the PPSh assault rifle was assembled in 1941, that is, 79 years ago. Almost a museum piece. But, apparently, it would be premature to write it off for storage. Shot. Virtually no return.
Because of the accuracy of this machine they said that you could use it to sign on the target. Qualities that were also appreciated in the Wehrmacht. During the war, the Germans even officially adopted captured Soviet PPSh into service. We only arranged for replacement of barrels to suit our caliber.
“Very often you will see German soldiers with Russian weapons. These include SVT rifles and Shpagin submachine guns. They took it due to their capabilities and reliability, plus they were not afraid of water, dirt, or the destructive power of the ammunition,” notes fire instructor Dmitry Ryazantsev.
On top of everything there is a phenomenal margin of safety. During tests during continuous firing, even after 800 shots in a row, Shpagin’s brainchild does not overheat, remaining only slightly warm. The casing around the barrel with characteristic oval cutouts serves as a good radiator.
The stores really were the biggest problem. In semi-handicraft production, the discs were adjusted manually using files. Two per set per machine. They no longer approached another PPSh. Each disk contains 71 cartridges.
“The rate of fire of this weapon is 700 rounds per minute. So you understand, he shoots 12 times per second, machine guns fired slower,” says Dmitry Ryazantsev.
On the one hand, there is a high consumption of ammunition. On the other hand, in close combat he simply swept away his opponents. For which, by the way, he received the nickname “trench broom.” By the end of the Great Patriotic War, over six million PPSh assault rifles were produced. The most popular weapon of the Red Army.
They even erected a bronze monument to him in Vyatskiye Polyany. And in numerous sculptures and posters, artists certainly tried to present the image of the Soviet liberator warrior with this particular machine gun. The weapon with which the Brest Fortress, Moscow and Stalingrad were defended. Berlin was taken with him, and soldiers marched with him in the 1945 Victory Parade along Red Square.
What is SHUE PPSh
The abbreviation SHUE (The schizoid way of life is one) is a reference to the meme A.U.E (The prisoner way of life is one). In a broad sense, it means the unity of people who consider themselves schizophrenics. Followers of SHUE call for refusal of treatment, hate psychiatrists and are partly associated with the religious movement of Abdulover.
Main terms and slogans:
PPSh - Let the empty syringe. The point is to refuse drug treatment.
ShPSH - Crazy help the crazy. The point is in the mutual support of SHUE followers.
Power to the crazy, death to the orderlies . Shiz hate orderlies and punitive psychiatry.
Elkin’s grandson is a video blogger, YouTuber who records very strange videos. Believes that schizophrenics will soon rule the world. He calls himself the grandson of Alexander Elkin, a Soviet scientist. In fact, he is the creator of the SHUE movement.
Grandson of Elkin
Alexander Iosifovich Elkin
Yeltsin's gang brought to justice is a reference to the political slogan "Yeltsin's gang brought to justice." This is how the opposition of the 1990s opposed Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Abdulovera or Abduloverism is a religious movement and subculture aimed at persecuting some bloggers (sinners). At the center of the worship is actor Alexander Abdulov, who died in 2008. It is believed that Abdulov was a bad person, this is a kind of Satan of the Abdulovers (they call him God Satan). The religion was invented by a certain Abdul, who became its prophet. Abdul is a mythical figure, he is also a video blogger and preacher. But no one knows for sure who he really is.
There are versions that Abdul and Elkin’s grandson are the same person. But the Abdulover adherents themselves do not think so. They say that Abdul probably knows the Grandson and periodically gets in touch with the outside world through him.
Ansha Abdul is a sacred greeting from the adherents of Abdulovera.
Maslyata are sinners Abdulover. The term comes from the name of the blogger Vanomas (Ivan Maslakov), who, along with Ozone, is considered one of the main sinners.
Party "Party" (Party of Automated Robotic Technologies and Nuclear Weapons) is a party created by Elkin's Grandson. He is also its digital leader. The “Party” strives to ensure that human labor is replaced by robots. In general, the schiz are in favor of technological progress that can improve the world.
Biboran is the holy book of the Abdulovers. The name comes from the Bible and the Koran. Biboran describes all the sins of Alexander Abdulov.
Memes about SHUE PPSh
The most prominent meme associated with the SHUE subculture at the moment is the orderly. This is a man in a cap drawn in the style of Rage comics. He is the main enemy of the crazy people and wants to put everyone in the dark.
The meme became popular in the fall of 2020, it was promoted by large post-ironic publics, such as E8AT and “Abstract memes for the elite of all sorts.”
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Source: memepedia.ru
Revival of Abdulovera. SHUE PPSH
The wording of SHUE itself appeared not so long ago, in September 2018. It was promoted by the video blogger “Elkin’s Grandson”.
But the story behind the memes about SHUE PPSh goes back to the distant years 2010-2013. It all started with Abdulovera, an online religion that replaced Upyachka.
Abdulovera appeared in 2010 and was a fairly local meme. After 2 years, its founder Abdul left the movement, and activity began to decline. In 2014, the first revival of religion began, the force intensified in 2015-2016. Abdulovera was not particularly popular among the broad masses, but with the advent of SHUE they began to remember her more and more often, including through post-ironic memes.
The SHUE movement was created by an adherent of the Abdul Belief - Elkin’s Grandson. As a source familiar with the situation told Memepedia, the blogger came up with SHUE in response to hateful comments on YouTube. But the main point is not so much in trolling, but in human rights activities in relation to “prisoners of the mental hospital.”
Schizophrenia makes it easier to slander people as “abnormal” and then, for example, seize an apartment. SHUE believes that schizophrenia does not exist, since schizophrenics are “the highest caste of crazy people, because they are normal people”
The Abdulovers do not associate themselves with SHUE, but they support some ideas. In particular, the fight against lawlessness and the “triumph of justice.”
Elkin’s grandson created the “Party” party and several other groups on VKontakte (Anti-lawlessness, Abdulorazvitie). With their help, the active spread of memes about schizophrenics, orderlies, Abdul, etc. began.
Over the course of a year, SHUE has become quite a widespread phenomenon. In September-October 2020, memes of this type reached their peak and became part of the general post-ironic trend.
Account of the Ancient Shiz
The count of the ancient shiz is a local SHUE meme, a reference to the “count of the ancient Rus.” It was invented by scientist and teacher Yuri Stepanovich Rybnikov.
Rybnikov believes that the ancient Rus had their own unique numbers: zero, ruble, half, quarter, ocmushka, pudovichok, copper, silver, zolotnik, nine, ten.
The scientific community does not take Rybnikov seriously. This is a kind of freak scientist, like Maestro Ponasenkov. And his “account of the ancient Rus” is a complete fabrication. Nevertheless, Rybnikov writes books, teaches at the university and appears on television shows.
He appeared in one of these in 2020. And there he repeated his count again.
A few years later, the recording was re-edited, turning it into a meme. And the count of the ancient Rus turned into the count of the ancient shiz. Here's what it sounds like: zero, ruble, chekushka, porn, fart, sirushka, bug, asshole, dick on the collar, fool.
Why not PPD
Shpagin's PP was much more versatile and had better technical characteristics than PPD. But why was the latter even handed over to the designers for revision? The complexity of manufacturing PP significantly slowed down production, which was very bad during the war. In addition, the parts cost a lot of money, and during a crisis this is unacceptable. In this regard, the government made a request to improve the PPD or create a new machine gun. And the PPSh, in turn, on the contrary, had a simple design. If necessary, any machine-building plant could switch to creating this submachine gun.
If in terms of performance the Shpagin and Shpitalny assault rifles were almost equal, then in the test at the training ground the first one showed itself much better. It was manufacturability and versatility that brought the PPSh-41 assault rifle to first place, the technical characteristics of which were also high.
