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The whole philosophy behind the AK was ease of manufacture as a cost driver. Cheap to produce kept costs down. Soviet low tech and high rates of production allowed a market swarm putting millions of very affordable weapons into the guns and butter diplomacy pipeline at a rate the U.S. couldn’t compete with.
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And now? This anti capitalistic icon of cold war efficiency has gone chic... With an associative inflated price tag. Red Stars on Kepi’s will once again become a fashion statement for the trendy at heart. Raise a fist, place your orders... and get radical in front the mirror in the privacy of your collective flat!