AK-47之父卡拉什尼科夫去世 再见枪王
爱思英语编者按:经过与病魔的长期斗争后,AK-47突击步枪发明人米哈伊尔·卡拉什尼科夫周一在俄罗斯去世,享年94岁。 Mikhail Kalashnikov, who is credited with inventing the AK-47 rifle died Monday in Russia after a lengthy battle with illness. He was 94 years old. Born Nov. 10, 1919 to Russian peasants who were deported to Siberia when he was a child, the future lieutenant general fought in, and then commanded, a tank brigade in World War II, but ended up in a gun shop after a wound took him from the front. After the war, Kalashnikov and a team entered a state-sponsored contest and invented the rifle, which became the best-selling rifle in history. And Kalashnikov’s fame rose as well. By the time he passed, he’d been honored twice as a hero of the Soviet Union, once as a hero of the modern Russian Federation, and had served six terms in the Supreme Soviet. In 1987, Kalashnikov said, ”Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery.” |