Pistolet-pulemet (Пистоле́т-пулемёт) means submachine gun in Russian. A submachine gun (SMG is a Firearm that combines the automatic fire of a Machine gun with the cartridge of a Pistol, and is Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages The name is most often used in relation to a series of weapons made by the Soviet Union which includes PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS-43. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The PPD ( P istolet- P ulemyot D egtyaryova, Russian Пистолет-пулемёт Дегтярёва) is a Submachine gun The PPSh-41 ( P istolet- P ulemyot Sh pagina; Пистолет-пулемёт Шпагина; Shpagin Machine Pistol; nicknamed The PPS is a family of Soviet 762 mm Submachine guns designed in two main variants – the PPS-42 and PPS-43 by A The letter after the PP (ПП) in the gun's designation is from the designer's name. For example, the "Sh" in PPSh stands for Shpagin (Russian: Шпагин).