Fan Wennan does basically this but for socialist realism
(I had one more I wanted to post but it seems like I hit some kind of rate-limit and it's not expiring after a few minutes of waiting, so I'll just link it: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g8qe0x)
yes, it has a side magazine (which was the style at the time ), although it's at a bit of an angle, slightly diagonal