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I made it to protect the motherland.
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Motherland
Protect
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Man keeps inventing things all the time.
Mikhail Kalashnikov / Inventor
Men
Inventing
Inventing Things
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Life is composed of different inventions.
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Different
Invention
Life Is
Composed
Inventions
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I was probably born with some designing abilities.
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Design
Ability
Born
Designing
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Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.
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Arms
Simple
Use
Want
Reliable
Terrorists
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I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.
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Assault
Consider
Rifle
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I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.
Mikhail Kalashnikov / Inventor
Gains
Technical Education
Gain
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Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.
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Men
Kissing
Noses
Nose
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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
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Sad
Ak 47
Invention
Proud
Terrorists
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I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.
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Shot
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Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.
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Complexes
Simple
Useful Things
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It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.
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Ak 47
Criminals
Fire
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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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Flour
Grain
Mills
Special
Designed
Mill
Wood
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I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
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Design
Hands
Rifles
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I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.
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Doing Good
Names
Weapons
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The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
Mikhail Kalashnikov / Inventor
Ak 47
Designer
Facts
People
Die
Fact
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The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.
Mikhail Kalashnikov / Inventor
Ak 47
Country
Gun
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I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.
Mikhail Kalashnikov / Inventor
Boys
Trying
Wells
Perform
Best Time Trying
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I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
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Design
Different
Dozen
Path
Rejected
Served
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Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.
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Bottles
Genies
Want
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I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
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Agreement
Ak 47
Sleep
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Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.
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Appreciation
Fields
Something New
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I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.
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Ak 47
Example
People
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When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.
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Ak 47
Fool
Gun
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Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.
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Bitterness
Designer
Envy
Feels
Gun
Bit
Believes
Less
Compared
Performance
Test
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.
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Arms
Facts
Machines
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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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Running
Ak 47
Railway
Wanted
Run
Developed
Engine
Invent
Looked
Stayed
Though
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I created a weapon to defend the borders of my motherland. It's not my fault that it's being used where it shouldn't be. The politicians are more to blame for this.
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Ak 47
Borders
Weapons
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My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.
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Country
Liberty
Rifles
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Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.
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Different Things
Sake
Satisfaction
Life Work Home
Composed
Inventions
Rebuilt
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I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.
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Home
Different
Different Things
Sake
Satisfaction
Work Home Myself
Rebuilt
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My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?
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Christian
Pain
Spiritual
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For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.
Mikhail Kalashnikov / Inventor
Bulgaria
Clearance
Golden
Holiday
Russia
Abroad
Early 1990S
Mention
Real Name
Resort
Sands
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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.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.
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Men
Ak 47
Simple
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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.
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Blame
Clear
Common
Country
Invention
Protect
Used
Ask
Control
Me Day People
Feel
Being
Scale
Me People Control
Being Used
Me Day Country
Conflicts
Created
Often
Day
How
Politicians
Ethnic
Every Day
Global
Weapon
Rifle
Spreading
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You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.
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Baby
Children
Mother
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.
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Country
Night
Sleep
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My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.
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Book
Children
Country
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