Kalashnikov gets a monument

[steve58]

Some places around the world are still putting up statues rather than tearing them down.  Wonder how many people will get triggered by this :-"

A towering monument to Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47, the Soviet rifle that has become the world's most widespread assault weapon, was unveiled on Tuesday in the middle of one of central Moscow's busiest thoroughfares.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/world/europe/moscow-kalashnikov-statue.html

[Greybriar]

I wonder if there is/will be a statue of Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov in Vietnam. I wish I had been permitted to keep the AK-47 I captured the last night I was in the field.

[airboy]

If the statue was in the USA, the left would tear it down.

[airboy]

In the USA we need statues to Robert Browning - lots of statues.

[trailrunner]

If the statue was in the USA, the left would tear it down.

I thought the Antifas and hard left liked the Russian communism, socialism, and the hammer and sickle, so a statue of Kalashnikov might put them into a vapor lock state of indecision.

[Ubercat]

Yeah, any commie statue would be exempt from being torn down in America.

[OJsDad]

You're assuming they're smart enough to know it's a commie statue. 

[Gusington]

This whole thread offends my tender sensibilities. I need a safe place.

[bayonetbrant]

This whole thread offends my tender sensibilities. I need a safe place.

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[Gusington]

That's probably the most unsafe place on the entire web.

[Ubercat]

So now you're exploiting women? Evil westerners ...

[em2nought]

If the statue was in the USA, the left would tear it down.

I thought the Antifas and hard left liked the Russian communism, socialism, and the hammer and sickle, so a statue of Kalashnikov might put them into a vapor lock state of indecision.

The illuminati can't determine one old white man from another.  ;)

[Staggerwing]

I thought the Illuminati was a bunch of old white men... staying at the Hotel de Bilderberg and attending Trilateral Commission meetings.

[Con]

In Soviet Russia Stg44 beats AK47

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41367394

[Staggerwing]

Oops.