Originally Posted by
Szegedist
Kalashnikov did NOT invent or design this weapon. He was a young punk, in 1947 (27). During the War he was not studying or designing weapons or anything, but was a tank driver. A mere two years later he "designs" this super advanced (for the time) weapon. Out of thin air. All by himself..without an enginering degree….He did not invent anything BEFORE, nor AFTER(!), and that should be a massive red flag in itself. The weapons designing crowd of history were not one trick ponies like this guy is.
The REAL inventor was a German SLAVE in the Soviet Union, captured in 1945 and shipped there in 1946 named: Hugo Schmeisser. He was in Izhevsk in the southern Ural Mountains, where a center of Russian firearms development was located.
He was let go back to E. Germany in 1952; a year later he was dead. It would not surprise me, if it would come out eventually, that he died (killed) so he could not tell that Kalashnikov was just a young punk know-nothing helper in the design dept, working under Schmeisser.
For propaganda purposes, Kalashnikov was credited with the design; probably he was a good little suck-up communist, who could be trusted.
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