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Artefacts

The AK-47: the people’s gun

By Lar Joye Three large arms plants were developed in the 1920s by the new Soviet government, as it attempted to modernise the old Czar’s army in the wake of the Revolution. These modern plants would eventually produce the world’s most famous firearm, the AK-47 assault rifle. There are an estimated 80 million of these … Read more

Categories Artefacts, Issue 6 (November/December 2017), Volume 25

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