Well, what have we here?

 

Looks like a military/police surplus Bulgarian Makarov pistol (click to enlarge photo). This is a pretty little handgun, featuring  direct blowback design, a decocker, a heel magazine release, and the popular Bakelite red grips with the star emblem. The magazine holds eight rounds of 9mm Makarov ammo (a little shorter and a little wider than the 9mm Luger, and not as powerful as the latter). I took it out to the range and found it to be accurate (in spite of the miniscule sights) and reliable with FMJ ammo; not so reliable with hollow-point - had a couple of failures to feed. Not really a problem, though, since I intend to use this exclusively for target shooting. And even if I did carry it for defense, there are two schools of thought on whether hollow-points in this caliber are particularly effective. Some say yes, others say the velocity isn't high enough to reliably cause the bullet to flatten sufficiently on impact. 

The Makarov was adopted by the Soviet Union as its official military sidearm in the post-war period, and several Com Bloc countries manufactured it (including Bulgaria and East Germany).

Check out this guy loading, cocking and firing a Makarov pistol - one-handed.