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In 1930 Mikhail Kalashnikov's father was deported from the Soviet Union by Stalin. What if he had escaped the country, settling in New York with his wife and 11 year old son. He changes his name to Calish and the family become strong patriots to their new home.
Micheal Calish joined the U.S army on the day of Pearl Harbor and fought in Italy before being injured in the invasion of Normandy. While in the hospital he passed his time by designing weapons. After the war he married a French nurse that had treated him and bought a patent on the new rifle he had designed. In 1946 Colt bought the rights to the gun and he became a successful poet in the United States, winning a Nobel prize for his work in 1954.
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