Please. If you want to keep Stalinist-era weapons because you like shooting them or because they are cheap, keep them. It is disingenuous, at best, to claim that without US shooters keeping M-44's and MN revolvers the atrocities of the Soviet system will be forgotten.
Perhaps.
But it sure doesn't hurt that there's evidence of these deeds in the hands of people who can learn from that history. In fact, it was just seeing a Mosin Nagant for the first time which inspired me to learn something about these weapons and the history associated with them.
I've had people see my M44 and ask about it, and I've told them about some of the things I've learned. That further cements these events into the memory of our species.
Without the proliferation of these surplus rifles, this never would have happened. And just think if anybody ever tries to deny these events, several thousand if not million MN owners are going to have concrete evidence those people are full of it.
In fact in this age of Socialists I think it's more important than ever we understand Stalin's era.
If that's being disingenuous, then I'll continue being disingenuous. Some people are kinesthetic learners, and if spreading this history to such people is something you're against, we'll just have to disagree.