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Popular history says the AK-47 went into production on 6 July 1947. Soviet trial records say the rifle didn't exist yet that week, and had just failed its tests. What emerged from the redesign armed a hundred million people anyway.
On 5 March 1953, Joseph Stalin died on the floor of his dacha, where he had lain unattended for the better part of a day. Nobody had dared go in to check.
On 12 January 1903, Igor Kurchatov was born in the Urals. Forty-six years later, under his direction, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb and ended America's nuclear monopoly four years after Hiroshima.