The SSh-36 akanga akapfeka neuto reSoviet muhurongwa anoverengeka mukupera 1930s uye 1940s, kusanganisira Khalkin Gol mushandirapamwe pamusoro vokuJapan muna 1939 (achipa zita remadunhurirwa rokuti "Khalkingolka"), Finnish Winter War of 1939<unk>1940, 1939 invasion yePoland, 1940 nechisimba pamusoro Baltic States uye Bessarabia
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