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<\/center><\/p>\nEarlier this week, there was a bit of fanfare over the opening of a statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov in Moscow to commemorate the recently passed firearm inventor. It was soon after it’s unveiling that someone discovered that the wrong rifle, a German StG 44, was depicted on the base, according to BBC<\/a>;<\/p>\n A series of modified AK rifles were etched on a metallic plate on the base of the statue, including the wrong drawing.<\/p>\n Russian arms historian Yuri Pasholok was the first to point out the error, and several experts later confirmed this was the case.<\/p>\n Sculptor Salavat Shcherbakov said earlier on Friday that “this is something we’re correcting”, adding that “we’re trying to avoid mistakes”, Russia’s Rossiya-24 TV channel reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The erroneous depiction was cut out out of the statue. From the UK’s Independent<\/a>;<\/p>\n The sculptor, Salavat Shcherbakov, was forced to apologise on state-run Rossiya 24 channel. He said: \u201cIt looks like this [mistake] sneaked in from the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n And the error caused additional controversy because of the accusations, made during Kalashnikov\u2019s lifetime, that his most famous weapon copied the StG 44 design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Thanks to Thomas Huxton for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"