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    I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

    Assault | Consider | Rifle


    Man keeps inventing things all the time.

    Time | Inventing | Keeps


    Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

    Life | Work | Home


    I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

    Work | Home | Happened


    We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

    Special | Wood | Grain


    I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

    Best | Time | Boy


    I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

    Hearing | Shot


    I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

    Education | Experience | Gain


    Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

    Best | Gun | Envy


    Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms.

    Simple | Arms | Reliable


    The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

    Control | Negative | Beyond


    I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

    Train | Engine | Railway


    Life is composed of different inventions.

    Life | Inventions | Composed


    Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

    Life | Kiss | Nose


    I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

    Design | Path | Tried


    The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

    Politics | Die | Designer


    I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

    Sad | Proud | Invention


    People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

    Control | Blame | Ask


    For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

    Travel | Wife | Holiday


    I was probably born with some designing abilities.

    Born | Ability | Designing


       

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