I previously covered the postwar use of the  StG 44 in post-war Yugoslavia and the importance of its development during World War II, which prompted every nation to investigate the concept of the assault rifle.Some nations reached different conclusions: the Americans with the full-power M14, and the Soviets with the intermediate cartridge AK, which were both still under development at this time.But the StG 44 itself did not disappear in 1945.