{"id":40269,"date":"2017-09-24T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40269"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:02:31","slug":"brilliant-job-on-the-kalashnikov-statue-tovarisch-but-whats-that-weapon-right-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/24\/brilliant-job-on-the-kalashnikov-statue-tovarisch-but-whats-that-weapon-right-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant job on the Kalashnikov statue, Tovarisch, but what’s that weapon right there<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian<\/em><\/a> reports on some emergency fix-ups required to a brand new statue honouring Mikhail Kalashnikov:<\/p>\n

Workers have removed part of a new monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the Soviet Union\u2019s AK-47 assault rifle, after eagle-eyed Russians noticed that it mistakenly depicted a German second world war weapon.<\/p>\n

The monument to the creator of one of Russia\u2019s best known export brands was unveiled in central Moscow three days ago to much fanfare.<\/p>\n

A metal bas-relief behind a statue of Kalashnikov depicts the AK-47 and other weapons all supposedly designed by the engineer, who died in 2013.<\/p>\n

But embarrassed sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov had to admit that among them was the Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44) assault rifle used by Nazi troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will rectify this,\u201d Shcherbakov said in comments broadcast by state-run Rossiya 24 channel. \u201cIt looks like this [mistake] sneaked in from the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Friday evening a square hole gaped where the German rifle had been depicted in the bas-relief.<\/p>\n

Kalashnikov\u2019s weapon, created in 1947, does have a striking resemblance to German arms designer Hugo Schmeisser\u2019s StG 44 rifle, created in 1942, although they have major design differences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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MP44 (Sturmgewehr 44), Germany. Caliber 8x33mm Kurz- From the collections of Arm\u00e9museum (Swedish Army Museum), Stockholm. (via Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div>
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Kalashnikov \u0410\u041a-47 with bayonet attached (via Wikimedia)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian reports on some emergency fix-ups required to a brand new statue honouring Mikhail Kalashnikov: Workers have removed part of a new monument to Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the Soviet Union\u2019s AK-47 assault rifle, after eagle-eyed Russians noticed that it mistakenly depicted a German second world war weapon. The monument to the creator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1119,15,663],"tags":[108,140,49,433],"class_list":["post-40269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-russia","category-technology","category-weapons","tag-coldwar","tag-design","tag-guns","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-atv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40273,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40269\/revisions\/40273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}