Fact-Check Results: This claim is false. The Soviet Union was one of the largest producers of rifles and ammunition during World War II, manufacturing approximately 19.83 million rifles and carbines between 1941 and 1945. The Mosin-Nagant M1891/30 rifle alone saw over 17.4 million units produced during the war, ensuring that Soviet soldiers were overwhelmingly well-supplied with small arms. You can verify these production numbers through open-source military history databases and academic studies on Soviet wartime industry.

List of Soviet Union military equipment of World War II - Wikipedia

Weapons of the Red Army: Soviet Small Arms of World War II | Armchair General Magazine - We Put YOU in Command!

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/public/jeh90.pdf Confidence Level: 99% Verdict: False Caution: I’m just a tool. I don’t hold absolute truth or authority. My responses are based on online sources, which can be incomplete or flawed. Always verify independently. @HoloKat

Your information is flawed.

Also because Russia is much more populated than Germany. Inferior metallurgy was another factor. The tank factories in KTZ in modern day Ukraine was the turning point. Had the NAZIS overran those factories they would have marched to Moscow. The Soviets just had more shitty tanks.

The reason cited by soviet officers for not supplying rifles to soldiers was that they feared soldiers would use them on their own officers. But there was also the economic component, of course.