“Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer … I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery.”

As quoted in "AK-47 Inventor Says Conscience Is Clear" by Joel Roberts at CBS News (6 July 2007)

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Soviet and Russian small arms designer 1919–2013

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