Russian schools are told to teach how to strip an AK-47 for 100th birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov

[Dunross]

• Russian education ministry calls for school lessons on assembling AK-47 guns
• Comes as Russia prepares for 100 year anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikiv
• Ministry said lessons would teach students about country's history & culture

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Russia-told-teach-pupils-assemble-AK-47.html


Russian weapon designer Mikhail Kalashnikov pictured in 2007. Russian general
Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 1919 and is known for developing the AK-47
assault rifle. He is revered as a public figure in Russia and passed away in
December 2013, at the age of 93

Can you imagine the furor this would cause if done here in the United States?

BTW, Eugene Stoner's 100th will be November 22nd, 2022.

 

[MedWheeler]

... while our students are being taught about "safe spaces", "gender neutrality", and micro-aggressions.

At least we're still teaching some of them to cower under their desks and throw canned vegetables at a threat..

My wife was raised in the USSR and Russia, and was made to fire one in school. As she recalls, it was loaded with wax bullets and fired inside a gymnasium. I don't think she was made to break it down, though.

 

[bdickens]

Looks like Nikita Khrushchev was right after all.

 

[Scooter22]

I'd bet some of our new migrants from the overseas know how to work a AK.

 

[Sovblocgunfan]

This is not an uncommon thing there. Most middle school and junior high age kids learn to do this.

 

[Deanimator]

Yes, but what pronoun does your AKS74U use...?

 

[entropy]

Long before then; Here's some Russian Jr. High aged kids in the early 90's:



Perhaps member White Horseradish might add his experiences with this.....

Yes, but what pronoun does your AKS74U use...?

Я.

 

[labnoti]

When they let all the citizens in Russia own and keep one, it will mean something.

 

[hq]

When they let all the citizens in Russia own and keep one, it will mean something.

As a matter of fact, nowadays they do. I'm not intimately familiar with their gun laws but it seems that after five years of smoothbore/shotgun ownership, it's possible to apply for a rifle license, including semi auto AK.

 

[Spats McGee]

Seems like a reasonable way to celebrate his birthday.

 

[fpgt72]

When they let all the citizens in Russia own and keep one, it will mean something.

 

[fpgt72]

... while our students are being taught about "safe spaces", "gender neutrality", and micro-aggressions.

At least we're still teaching some of them to cower under their desks and throw canned vegetables at a threat..

My wife was raised in the USSR and Russia, and was made to fire one in school. As she recalls, it was loaded with wax bullets and fired inside a gymnasium. I don't think she was made to break it down, though.

I had a good friend that came over before the fall of the soviet union, she has some real interesting stories as your wife does I bet. The envy of having toilet paper for example.
She would also go back with these "groups" of westerners looking for "russian women" and translate for them....she said it was so depressing, she quit doing that....even if it was a free trip home to see friends, just too sad.

As to the guns she learned to shoot as well, but shot a bolt rifle, she was not sure what it was......I am betting she is in her 70's now at least.

 

[AlexanderA]

Teaching kids about guns in Russia is so they can be better conscripts and agents of the State, not so they can own and use guns on their own.

 

[Tommygunn]

I had a good friend that came over before the fall of the soviet union, she has some real interesting stories as your wife does I bet. The envy of having toilet paper for example.
She would also go back with these "groups" of westerners looking for "russian women" and translate for them....she said it was so depressing, she quit doing that....even if it was a free trip home to see friends, just too sad.

As to the guns she learned to shoot as well, but shot a bolt rifle, she was not sure what it was......I am betting she is in her 70's now at least.

My father visited the U. S. S. R. in the mid 1980s on business and one of his complaints was they didn't have any t.p. They used old newspaper ......

I'd have thought .... maybe .... by now, Charmin might have taken advantage of a whole new unclaimed market ....

 

[Taurus 617 CCW]

I wonder how it would fly if we proposed the same thing on Eugene Stoner’s 100th birthday for the AR in our own schools?

 

[buck460XVR]

Russia's gun laws are far more restrictive than ours, even limiting private citizens to 10 rounds or less of mag capacity. Individuals are not allowed to carry for SD, and must acquire a license to transport any firearm for the use of hunting and sport. Hard to imagine how this would teach so called.... country's history & culture. Other than not a lot of Russians known for their inventiveness.

 

[MedWheeler]

fpgt72 writes: (about a Soviet-raised woman he knew)

She would also go back with these "groups" of westerners looking for "russian women" and translate for them....she said it was so depressing, she quit doing that...

Mine worked for an internet-dating site as a translator before she came here. It was local to her town, and she found it depressing because she still had pride in her motherland and hated seeing all these girls wanting to leave. Her job was to interpret emails written back and forth between Western men and local women.

She also frequently found herself telling some of them "you know, all those sweet, romantic words he wrote to you, saying you're the only woman for him and all, well, he wrote that to three other girls, too."

 

[Wisco]

What a shame that Russians are teaching their kids useful warrior tasks and American schools are teaching our kids not to bully and assault other kids who identify any kinda way they want. Sad!

 

[JONWILL]

... while our students are being taught about "safe spaces", "gender neutrality", and micro-aggressions.

At least we're still teaching some of them to cower under their desks and throw canned vegetables at a threat..

My wife was raised in the USSR and Russia, and was made to fire one in school. As she recalls, it was loaded with wax bullets and fired inside a gymnasium. I don't think she was made to break it down, though.

True, My daughter goes to Catholic School. The teacher is the one at the door prepared to repel boarders. Now I am thinking I may suggest that Phys Ed class should have new uniforms and learn fighting skills.

Maybe this will do. I was first thinking swords but in a classroom with 30 4th graders swinging them around someone will surely lose an arm or leg. I am thinking a pole arm would fit the bill.

Can you image an armed bad guy coming into a school and being confronted with 200 students dressed like this and trained to use their weapon

 

[entropy]

"NONE SHALL PASS!"

 

[H&R Glock]

Hmmm? are they required to serve in the army? Some countries do require some service.

 

[AlexanderA]

Hmmm? are they required to serve in the army? Some countries do require some service.

Russia has universal male conscription for a 12-month term of service. By all accounts, conditions for the conscripts are brutal. Draft dodging can draw a 2-year prison term. And Russian prisons are far worse than Russian military service, which in itself is pretty bad. (The service requirement was recently reduced from 2 years to one year.)

 

[philoe]

Somewhere in another dimension, Hugo Schmeisser has to be saying "Are you kidding me?"

What a tremendous example of propaganda that history has disputed many times over and has been accepted as fact. How this Seargent dreamt up this piece of hardware in the hospital is truly one of the greatest mysteries in the world of invention. The rifle has so many similarities to Schmeisser's STG -44 and the Russkies brought (or forced) Schmeisser and other engineers over to work on the eventual AK47 at the end of the war.

I think the idea of breaking down any tool or gun would be beneficial to the technology youth of today. I just think it is ridiculous that the hammer and sickle are celebrating a questionable invention by a grunt who drew the long straw to get vodka for life in exchange of being the face of invention.