The AK-47 & The Man In The Bowler Hat

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Today marks the anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This was the first major armed conflict that featured the AK-47, and the first conflict in which it was used by both sides. The photo above shows a dapper young Hungarian revolutionary named József Tibor Fejes who captured an AK-47 and became the first of many revolutionary icons to be photographed with the rifle. C.J. Chivers writes in The Gun (Page. 224-225) …