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People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

~Mikhail Kalashnikov

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We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

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I made it to protect the motherland.

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I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

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The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

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Man keeps inventing things all the time.

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I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

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Life is composed of different inventions.

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Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Inventor

Born: November 10th, 1919

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