grayfox Wrote:The Ukrainians (take note all ye basically "free" societies!) not having the RTKABA, ie, a 2A, now part of the consequences of an invasion of ruthless thugs comes evident: Putin, as part of his invasion's "fallout" to coin a phrase, now threatens to blow up the Ukr nuclear plant, thus blackmailing all of Europe. The first state-sanctioned dirty bomb of the 21st century.
LRRPF52 Wrote:Were used to buying into the narrative that we are somehow bad citizens for keeping and bearing, but this is really a matter of survival between career criminals under the cloak of protection from public service when it comes to the levels were witnessing in Ukraine. They never had such recognition of basic human rights, so handing out AK-74s is a bit too late once hundreds of Russian tanks are already within your border, supported by air assets.Maybe not in Ukraine. But... and I'm not saying this to make a serious point or anything, I just find it interesting....
My fiance grew up in Russia during the last years of the Soviet era, in a city in the NW of Siberia. She's mentioned a couple of times that her high school had a basement armory that was stocked with AKs of one type or another. All the student there were required to take some kind of weapons training. At the very least, they had to learn how to strip down and reassemble an AK-47 (or 74, I'm not sure what they had), even the girls. That's sure as heck more than we get in the US.
EDIT: I found an article on this subject in a Russian-produced English-language web site corroborating her recollections:
https://www.rbth.com/history/330570-sovi...epared-war
Article claims Soviet kids were trained in emergency medical treatments, how to perform guard duty, methods of anti-tank warfare, etc. You could argue that this is a propaganda web site, so take a bit of that with a grain of salt. Hard to say how widespread that that advanced stuff actually was. But nobody can deny that Soviet Russia (if not the rest of the SSR) was a paranoid government, paranoid society. Very distrustful all other nations.
Here are some interesting pics from the article. I just showed these to her and she laughed. Said, "Yep! Yep! That was us! Talking apart our AK-47s." Except I guess, the workbenches at her school for doing this were much more crude than the nice classrooms shown in the pics.
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