Many, many moons ago, it was wrote off as kind of a low grade SKS, some because a matching one was few and far between, however, they just never gained the uber all hail mystical following the Russians and Chinese did.. the Russians are the original variant, and there's epic tons of Chinese of all flavors, then the Albanians and Yugoslavians follow suit.. then you have the Romanians all back of the bus and stuff.... even though, there are probably less imported than all of the big 5 other than the Albanian, and maybe the Yugoslavian M59.
Honestly.. I'll gladly take a Romanian any day.. they do have the best slings out of all of them.