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The Soviet M1938 120-millimeter mortar was an improved version (its base-plate was changed from square to round form etc.) of the Mortier Brandt de 120 mm mle 1935 which was imported to the USSR before the capitulation of France in 1940.[citation needed] and later produced by the Soviets in large quantities with an estimated 12000 12 cm mortars being produced by the end of World War II.