Kalashnikov inventor's regret AK-47步枪设计者的生前忏悔

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AK-47步枪之父卡拉什尼科夫于2013年12月23日辞世。据俄罗斯境内报道，在他过世一年半前，曾写信给俄东正教大牧首，表示因自己设计的步枪造成很多人死亡而万分悔恨。以下是 Steve Rosenberg 给 BBC 发来的报道：

In his letter to the Russian Patriarch, Mikhail Kalashnikov wrote that "one question was causing pain to his soul": if the rifle he had created had claimed lives, then did that mean that he, "a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?"

"The longer I live," he continued, "the more this question drills itself into my brain and the more I wonder why the Lord allowed man to have the devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression".

The letter has been published by the newspaper Izvestia. It quotes a spokesman for the Patriarch as saying that when weapons serve to defend the fatherland, the Russian Orthodox Church supports those who created them, as well as the soldiers who use them.

It's thought that more than 100 million Kalashnikov rifles have been sold worldwide. Mikhail Kalashnikov had been awarded the title Hero of Russia - he died last month aged 94 - and was buried with full state honours.