(VIDEO) ARTIST CHITED RUSSIANS: On the statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the German assault rifle was German Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle

The statue of Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the legendary rifle carrying his name, had to be repaired on Friday, less than a week after the inauguration, because a German rifle hanged on the monument.

"We checked the information of te error. It was confirmed, and the sculptor Salavat Ščerbakov admitted the mistake, "the Russian military history company told the news agency TASS.

At the seven-meter tall statue, Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died in 2013, holds AK-47, his glittering rifle, but a metal barge behind the statue of Kalashnikov shows the AK-47 and other weapons that were, allegedly, constructed by that engineer.

On Friday, however, Shchereshakov had to confess that among them was Sturmgewehr 44 (StG 44), a German assault rifle from the end of the Second World War. Some argue that the mistake is not accidental because Kalashnikov has been accused for decades of copying StG 44 during the creation of Ak-47.

"We will correct that," he said. "It looks like this went in from the Internet."

The statue of engineers was ceremoniously discovered in the center of Moscow on Tuesday to celebrate this weapon that has become a cultural brand of Russia, said Culture Minister Vladimir Medinski. /Hina/

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