AK-47 Rifles: The Most Used Weapon In The World
AK-47 Rifles: The Most Used Weapon In The World
HISTORY SAYS IT ALL: A soldier taking cover with his Kalashnikov rifle during a battle between the army backed up by armed civilians and pro-Ceausescu supporters around the government headquarters downtown Bucharest on December 24, 1989. More than 1,000 Romanians were killed across Romania during clashes between demonstrators and Ceausescu's security forces, in what amounted to eastern Europe's most violent anti-communist revolution. The country's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled and shot on Christmas Day, 1989.
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