that doesnt mean nothing. you have examples of normal guns currently on premium squads. for example the g41 in normandy.
as long as we see it ingame. i dont care or mind if its in a premium squad.
if it comes as alpha was, it wasnt a good lmg.
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But there is the G41 is Moscow as normal one and since the RPD can only be available in Berlin and was mass produced it make sense to be a normal gun. Anyways at least this is what i expect based on their current gun “logic” 
it was mass produced in the 50’s. not in 44.
was ready to be mass produced as far as i remember in my readings, but war was over. as far as i remember was some issue related to the new 7.62x39mm cartridge.
the max i could find was:
(…)batch of 1000 machineguns were produced in Kovrovsky factory #2 in 1944 and sent for troop testing including the field army."
Source: S.Monetchikov “History of Russian automatic weapons”
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