AK-47

• “A village is the last damned place to RON: to remain overnight in. There would be Vietnamese all around us. Old mamasan might come with an AK-47 to show us whose hooch we were really in, with a VC battalion behind her.”

• “I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. … I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower.”

• “In a stroke of irony, the world's most advanced and destructive weapon, the atom bomb, led the way for the low-tech AK.”

• “Much mythology has accrued around the AK, mainly on account of Hollywood representations. If you dig deeper, however, you find that it is no more powerful than many other assault rifles and is not particularly accurate. What it dies deliver, in spades, is awesome reliability, total ease of use and maintenance, and vast distribution across the world.”

• “I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen to own guns for sporting, hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon.”

• “AK-47 is the tool. Don't make me act the motherfucking fool.”

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Cast & crew

Konstantin BuslovDirectorYura Borisovas KalashnikovOlga Lermanas KatyaArtur Smolyaninovas Engineer captain LyutyyEldar Kalimulinas ZaytsevVitaliy Khaevas Major General KurbatkinValeriy Barinovas Major General DegtyarevAnatoliy Lobotskiyas Colonel GlukhovAleksey Vertkovas State security captain LobovDmitriy Bogdanas Engineer Major SudaevMaksim Bityukovas KazakovArmen Arushanyanas SaakyantsValery Afanasyevas Chief artillery marshal VoronovSergey Gazarovas Head of depot KrotovSeydulla Moldakhanovas Lieutenant Colonel Basarov

AK-47 across IJR