Surely most people still remember well the wonderful crime comedy by Leonid Iovich Gaidai "The Diamond Arm" from 1969. During the film, the main character, Semyon Semyonich, was handed out by the police to use a pistol. Have you ever wondered what kind of weapon was handed over to a citizen working undercover? Few people realize that they never handed over a Soviet pistol to Semyon.
According to the plot of the Soviet crime comedy "The Diamond Arm", the main character of the film, Semyon Semyonich, performed by Yuri Nikulin, was handed over to the gun by a police lieutenant named Volodya. Few of our fellow citizens paid attention to what kind of weapon fell into the hands of our hapless "burdock". Surely, most people, not being able to see the pistol in the film, believed that the policeman was passing the good old PM to Nikulin's hero.
True, if you take a good look at even the not very high-quality (relative to modern films) recording old film, then you can see that there is nothing in the silhouette of a service pistol that made it at least similar to PM. It is worth paying attention to the presence of a mysterious hook on the handle of the weapon, as well as to the absence of the licked forms characteristic of "Makarov".
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What kind of pistol is this? The fact is that in the hands of Semyon Semyonich was not even a Soviet weapon. This is an Italian pistol "Beretta 34" made in the first half of the 20th century. It is worth recalling that the Factory d'Armi Pietro Beretta arms factory is one of the oldest in the world today. It has existed since 1526! At the same time, many will probably wonder where the Beretta came from in the USSR.
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There is no mystery here either. The Union had a representative number of captured Italian pistols after World War II. Since it was quite problematic to get ammunition for an elegant Italian pistol manufactured in 1934, most of them were sent to warehouses during the war years. Were they mainly used as gifts for officers? proved themselves in the service.
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