>Appearance-wise, the thing that I like about Makarovs is that they
>look like a pistol version of a German-engineered automobile: precise
>and clean, without the flamboyant stylings of, say, Ferrari, or the
>aggressive stance of an American muscle car.
>
>Which is funny, I think, because the Makarovs are Russian and Russian
>cars are... not pleasing to look at? But some of their guns, they did
>right.

this may be the first (and only?) time in history that a russian-built *anything* was favorably compared to a german car, considering that russian builds tend to be assembled by (to all appearances) a bunch of drunks with meathooks for hands for operation and maintnance by under-educated drunks with meathooks for hands...

-Z
my dad was an engineer in a russian foundry. if he hadn't looked in the form, one of the laborers would have been a very permanent part of a particular casting... he was passed out drunk at the bottom (the laborer, not my dad).

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