[quote author=Sisyphus link=topic=86.msg669#msg669 date=1335168563]

"Ask a Russian engineer to design you a shoe, and he'll give you something that looks like the box the shoe came in. Ask him to design something that will slaughter Germans, and he turns into Thomas fucking Edison." - Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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That quote came to life right in front of my eyes after I field stripped my new AK and actually saw the genius behind the design.