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Bratislavskaya wrote:

Also the AK-47 was a western name. The soviet military called it the "AK" and it was adopted in 1949. The second prototype or something was in 1947. If you want me to do a comprehensive history of AK rifles I can, it's interesting.

And of course AK stands for "Avtomat Kalashnikov"
R.I.P Mikhail Kalashnikov ;-;