Since 1928, the battlefields of the world have seen an oddball Soviet-era weapon that proves the truth of the old saying, âLooks arenât everything.â Its nickname was once âStalinâs phonographâ â and the staccato tune it plays is the sound of automatic fire. Used by the Russians to gun down both the Finns and the Nazis, hefted by Chinese communist and North Korean troops fighting United Nations forces, and carried by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese when attacking American soldiers, the Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny â better known as the DP light machine gun â has spilled a...