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Originally Posted by Deadmanwalking_05
No I'm fucking sleep deprived, Yes they sort of did because well the Russians were strapped for cash and they had to trade something for food and the like.
And they are cheap,tough, but dirt cheap.
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I'm sleep deprived too, I was at a bachelor's party until 4 last night.
Some of the AK's in other countries are Russia weapons, and some are for the reasons you mentioned. However, Russia AK's are amoung the most expensive avaliable. I'd bet my money that a Yugoslavian AK will go for half of what a Russian AK will, and a Chinese will go for half of that.
The reason the AK is out there so widely, isn't because Russia spread it's legs and said "Come and get one everybody". It's because the design is unmatched for the price.
Nothing the West put out could match it. Not the AR-15/M-16, not the FN FAL, not the G3, and not the M-14. I mean, fuck, the FN FAL was practically made as a match for the AK-47, and the gun still couldn't compete with the AK-47.
Fun fact: The FN FAL, also known as the "right arm of the Free World", is the active service rifle of Venezula, one of those pesky socialist countries. In fact, it was only until 2006 that they switched over to the AK-47.