{"id":19022,"date":"2013-12-23T23:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=19022"},"modified":"2013-12-23T23:28:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T21:28:49","slug":"rip-mikhail-kalashnikov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/23\/rip-mikhail-kalashnikov\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Mikhail Kalashnikov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Mikhail<\/a>
Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikhail Kalashnikov<\/a>, the designer of the world famous AK-47 assault rifle, has passed away today, at the age of 94. \u00a0He was a true genius and a patriot of his country. \u00a0Coming from a very simple family, with very little education, after serving as a tank mechanic and later as a tank commander, after being wounded, he designed more than 150 models of small weapons – rifles, assault rifles, machine guns, etc.<\/p>\n

Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer\u00a0… I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such were the times, I guess – growing up in the post Civil War, Revolution and First World War country, serving during the Second World War and seeing all horrors and dangers first hand, his peaceful mind was turned the other way.<\/p>\n

I’m proud of my invention, but I’m sad that it is used by terrorists\u00a0… I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work\u00a0\u2014 for example a\u00a0lawn mower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looking into his engineering genius, I see the good old principle of keeping things simple:<\/p>\n

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, ‘All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed’\u00a0… So this has been my lifetime motto\u00a0\u2013 I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truly inspiring. \u00a0RIP.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the world famous AK-47 assault rifle, has passed away today, at the age of 94. \u00a0He was a true genius and a patriot of his country. \u00a0Coming from a very simple family, with very little education, after serving as a tank mechanic and later as a tank commander, after being … Continue reading RIP, Mikhail Kalashnikov<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[286,3255,338,3139,2909,866],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-19022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-history","tag-mikhail-kalashnikov","tag-military","tag-rip","tag-russia","tag-weapons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19025,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/24\/ak-47-an-assault-rifle-for-everyman\/","url_meta":{"origin":19022,"position":0},"title":"AK-47: An Assault Rifle for Everyman","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 24, 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"AK-47: An Assault Rifle for Everyman","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Mikhail Kalashnikov","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Mikhail-Kalashnikov-500x340.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16141,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/01\/the-end-of-kalashnikov-era\/","url_meta":{"origin":19022,"position":1},"title":"The end of Kalashnikov era","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports: Moscow announced plans this week to modernise the Kalashnikov, giving a new lease of life to the Soviet-era assault rifle that is the mainstay of the Russian army and weapon of choice for paramilitaries and gangsters around the world. 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