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| Russia's trademark gun turns 60 amid rumblings of profits lost |
| 2007-07-16 |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #6 Whichever one is diluted with coffee to make a black russian, Anguper Hupomosing9418. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-16 18:53 |
| #5 That I don't know, Anguper. I prefer scotch. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-16 18:42 |
| #4 So, which brand produces a greater volume of urine per hour? Inquiring minds want to know. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-07-16 16:30 |
| #3 Same for Smirnoff vodka. One of the family brought it to the US after the Soviet Revolution and a few years ago the Russian and US brands got into a pissing match. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-07-16 13:06 |
| #2 It seems there has also been some controversy concerning the only other Russian product that ever met with any international market success: Stolichnaya I used to think it might be a novelty to drive a Zil or a Chaika but I don't think you can get them as anything but museum pieces, kind of like old Packards or Tuckers. When I googled them it looked like all they really were anyway were just knockoffs of Packards, Cadillacs and Continentals. I guess that's what happens when the state plans all economic activity and suppresses market competition and entrepreneurial spirit. Anybody who had a spark of creativity understood that he or she would never be rewarded for it. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-16 12:33 |
| #1 There's a rich irony in that, after the commies flooded the world with they rifle. And it's very fitting that over 80 years+ of communism, which was as its proponents maintened the most successful and scientifical system of industrial and societal organization, there was no drug, no car, no electronic device, nothing *useful* which was ever designed and exported... only cvodka and a low-end rifle aimed at guerilla. "The famous Kalashnikov assault rifle has become not only an example of daring innovative thought but also a symbol of the talent and creative genius of our people," My gun-knowledge is purely literacy-based, but that's pretty funny, since the AK is heavily based on the german Stg44/MP43, and is basically an improved rip-off with a better reduced-power rifle cartridge. See above for the continuous lack of "daring innovative thought, talent and creative genius of the USSR" over all those years. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-16 10:40 |