Posted September 25, 2017 8:00 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

The weapon detail near the Mikhail Kalashnikov statue in Moscow, after a diagram of a German StG44 was removed (Photo: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
Russian workers redacted a portion of AK47 inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov’s new monument last week to scrub away the presence of a controversial German rifle.
As reported by Reuters, workers cut and ground away the offending German Sturmgewehr StG44 (MP44) rifle on Friday, leaving it a scarred memory. The gun goof was pointed out by an eagle-eyed Russian firearms enthusiast and fed fuel to the flame that Kalashnikov had help for his AK series guns from German firearms designer Hugo Schmeisser.
The sculptor of the 35 million ruble work, Salavat Shcherbakov, laid the blame for the borscht sandwich incident at the hands of the world wide web.
“We will rectify this,” Shcherbakov told state-run Rossiya 24 channel. “It looks like this (mistake) sneaked in from the internet.”
There, under the Krinkov, is a German StG44 in exploded view as it originally appeared, which would probably be OK on any monument except that of Mikhail Kalashnikov in Moscow.
The latest broadside in the “AK47 was based on the StG44” conflict brought detailed rebuttals from Russian firearms experts, though comments on Guns.com’s social media post on the

Source: Guns.com

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