Ive fired a PPsh and it wasn’t so great as expected. Build quality is very crude. Its certainly an up close and personal weapon. Looks are its best quality. The commies never were much for finish. As for cheap WWII subguns the Sten and M2 were considerably better. Altho the mag hanging off the side is sort of inconvenient and strange and the M2 cycles reallllyyy slowly. Hey, theyre guns so whats not to like.. :)
Strong points of PPSh are high-capacity drum magazine and a superb TT pistol high-velocity round. A recoil is pretty much comfortable as well.
I honestly think it outclasses any WWII SMG in terms of basic performance.
But I agree that it is not the classiest thing in build quality. There is a little pleasure to hold one in your hands.