'KALASHNIKOV' TRAILER
WEAPON THAT CHANGED HISTORY
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| The movie is out this February |
We're opening the last week of 2019 with the new trailer for Russian war drama
KALASH NIKOV (Калашников) which arrives to theatres next February with
Yuriy Borisov playing legendary Russian gunsmith Mikhail
Timofeevich Kalashnikov, who at the age of 29 created the most widely used assault rifle on Earth - AK-47, a weapon that changed history and gave
security to millions of people around the world. The idea of creating a new weapon came to the young sergeant Kalashnikov in 1941, when he was hospitalized due to a serious injury wondering why do all Germans have their own guns and Russians only one
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| He actually wanted to construct agriculture machines but became gunsmith because of the Nazis |
for two or three soldiers. Having lost the opportunity to return to the front, Kalashnikov found another way to serve the Motherland. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.
Did You Know?
Kalashnikov is the most common small gun in the world, it is used by
the armies of 50 countries. Although he invented it to give Russian
soldiers
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| He never made profit from the production of his guns |
a chance against Germans, he felt sorrow at the weapons'
uncontrolled distribution later on. He did take pride in his inventions and in
their
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| He was well over 90 when he died as the hero of Russian Federation |
reputation for reliability, emphasizing that his rifle is "a
weapon of defence" and "not a weapon for offence".
