Mikhail Kalashnikov achievement ; AK-47’s timeline, churned weaponary.

Mikhail Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 in a village in Altai territory. His family were land-owners. That was good for the family until Stalin’s purge in 1932, when they were exiled to Nizhnaja Mokhovaya village, Tomsk Region. When he was 17 years old, he went to work at the Turkistan-Siberian Railroad. That was in 1936 but in just two years which he was 19, he was called up for the Soviet Army and assigned to a tank-driving school.

                Always a tinkerer and inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov came up with gadgets to count gunshots, make pistols fire through tank slits and from time to time he also manage to do modifications on tank service intervals. He liked mechanical things, and he liked weaponary. Until then the World War II caught up with him, and in 1941 the tank he was commanding at the battle of Bryansk was hit by German fire eventually. He was badly injured, then later when he is still recovering in hospital, he talked with other soldiers who complained long and loud about the inferiority of their rifles compared to the German’s submachine weaponaries. After being discharged, he was sent to Matai in Kazakhstan.

                In Matai, Mikhail Kalashnikov started to put some ideas together for a gun that would offer what the troops wanted. His first model were produced after only three months, came to the attention of Professor Anatoliy Arkadievich Blagonravov, Head of the Dzerzhinsky Ordnance Academy. Blagonravov saw the gun’s potential despite a few design flaws, and recommended Kalashnikov attend the Central Scientific Research Firing Ground for Testing Small Arms at Moscow in 1942.

                Due to production issues and shortages, nothing more happened until 1945, when Kalashnikov submitted his schematics for a machinegun design competition to suit the 7.62mm M43 round. Eventually Kalashnikov won the competition, the AK-47 was officially named and recommended for the Soviet Army. Pre-production started in 1948 in Izhevskiy Motozavod where the weapons are still made today. A legendary weapon was carved on history.

                Apparently death no longer terrifies man as man have managed to create such terrifying weapon. The smell of blood is as calm as the smell of white plums, therefore the smell creates slavery and savagery which surpass the horror of dying. This act of slavery and savagery can only be fought with more bloodshed, hence, the cycle never ends. The AK-47 is a weapon of destruction but not salvation. All this while the soldiers who use all of the mass destruction weaponary will be stained with the worst of darkest memories. The visions of killing others will haunt them for the rest of their days.