Kalashnikov in critical condition

[UrbanWolf]

He's a dyed-in-the-wool communist who decries everything that I believe in... Still, his weapon has freed more people from tyranny than any other development by man. God Bless you, Mikhail Kalashnikov. Stay with us if you can. If not, go in peace, old soldier.

http://gunssavelives.net/blog/mikhail-kalashnikov-designer-of-ak-47-airlifted-to-hospital-in-serious-condition/

[tmckay2]

It has also been the weapon of oppression for many people

[Wulf202]

He also didn't invent it. It was just propaganda.

[Chad4000]

^^ really? I hadnt heard that.. will have to look at it. interesting

[cofi]

He also didn't invent it. It was just propaganda.links??

[Wulf202]

http://transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com/2009/02/michail-kalashnikov-admits-german-help.html
Famous Soviet arms builder Mihail Kalasnikov recently acknowledged he didn't worked alone at the design and development of the AK-47 assault rifle, but he benefited from the help of Hugo Schmeisser, the most prolific small arms inventor of the Third Reich. Kalashnikov and Schmeisser meet each other at the small arms factory of Izhevsk, writes Life.ru as quoted by Agerpress, the Romanian national news agency.

According to the Russian historian Aleksei Korobeinikov, Schmeisser arrived in Ijhevsk immediately after the war. The city of Suhl, Schmeisser's hometown in defeated Germany, was situated in the Soviet occupation zone. Schmeisser and another couple of dozens German small arms specialists received from the Soviet occupiers an offer they "couldn't refuse": to work at a Soviet small arms factory in the Urals. How the Soviets were making these types of "generous offers" after the war isn't a secret for anyone anymore. So as a result of the Soviet "proposal" a train with German specialists arrived at Izhevs on October 24th 1946. Together with Schmeisser and his colleagues, the train carried all the blue prints and plans the Soviets could grab from their occupation zone. Truth be told, the Western Allies did exactly the same thing.

[Hound]

It is a sad time.

[UrbanWolf]

Nice, we just have to bring up the "who the fuck really designed AK-47" debate. Really people?