[newsclues]

If you think the AKs in use in Russia and Ukraine aren’t getting regular maintenance, cleaning and spare parts, I don’t think you’re watching enough of the content coming out of the war zone.

Soldiering isn’t sexy, it’s digging trenches, cleaning kit, and eating concussive blasts waiting to fight or die.

You don’t sit in a bunker all day waiting to defend a trench and not clean your gun.

[com2kid]

It was largely a joke, but even so famously many of the AKs used in various other conflicts were buried in backyards in-between wars.