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The PPSh was chosen for mass production for its simplicity, good-enough reliability, and shocking firepower at close range.
The SVT-40 was a good one but it required some decent skills to maintain it in the field. And most Soviet conscripts were still not technically literate enough to maintain it properly. That's why it fared badly in conscripts' arms (and good enough in everyone else's) and thus phased out.
The Simonov carbine (the SKS) was a good compromise for that case.
So I would suggest this line of development:
WWI: Mosin;
Interwar: Tokarev SVT-38 or SVT-40 (or keep at tier 3 for marines, paratroopers, mot/mech etc);
SMG: Shpagin PPSh;
Semiauto: Simonov SKS
Assault rilfe: Kalashnikov AK*
*not AK-47, please, just don't call it that way - in MOST official docs it is simply AK. AK46 (AK-46), AK47 (AK-47) are mostly applied for the prototypes and pre-production series.
For that case PPSh-41, SVT-38, SVT-40 are also "popular (and mostly modern)" nicknames. Because these were actual given long boring names and shortened to names like PPSh, TT, SVT, DP, PPS (sometimes adding "obr. 1941" or "obr. 41" and the like, i.e. "pattern '41", after them).
P.S. If you can add visuals for shock troops the ShISBr guys (Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigades) (those guys with cuirasses and top weaponry) are just great for that!
Today they use a light-blue beret, in case you wanna skip modelling a side-cap and use the marine cap.
Budyonnovkas do need to be remodelled. Their ear-flaps are more visible in real life, that's why some people (in comment section) mistook them for pikelhelm. Second, when it is cold-enough the ear-flaps are in "down"position covering ears and neck. Same with ushankas. Of course, in cases when bravado came before reason (and that's not that rare) the "ears" were kept in "up" position until it was really damn cold or frostbite discouraged further bravado.
Upd. Winter budyonnovkas are "greyish" or "brownish" not "greenish".
And yes, there were summer versions at least during the civil war and 20's, maybe even early 30's.