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Originally Posted by Kokanee
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Try for yourself; dress to prepare for a -15° evironment and try to shoulder a fully extended stock and then bring it in to a 'standard' AK length.
There is no "source" for either side of the argument except for Bubbas in the States who think that Russia is full of midgets.
Note that in Yugoslavia (where the winters are obviously not as severe as in Russia), the LOP was in between the "NATO" length and the WP length.
You can find for yourself the accounts of how smaller conscripts were funneled into being tank crew rather than infantry so this idea that the whole Warsaw Pact armed forces were 6" shorter is ridiculous.