An anti-Communist civilian fighter runs with an AK during a street-fight in Bucharest, Romania. 1989.
An anti-Communist civilian fighter runs with an AK during a street-fight in Bucharest, Romania. 1989.
With some random people just sort of milling about in the background.
“Oh, they doin’ the streetfightin’ thing again are they? Bus doesn’t come for another 20 min, let’s have a look-sees.”
I've always gotta wonder where the fuck the dust cover went when I see pictures of people using/holding AKs without them. They aren't exactly small or something you take off very often, pretty hard to lose
A lot of them don't seem to have it for some reason. Don't know if it's made like that or if they just break and end up getting removed or what but I've seen a few cases where police have confiscated guns off people and a lot of the time they never seem to have the covers on.
I did wonder if perhaps it's a different version of the gun. I know there's like 9,000 different variants made across different decades so possibly they decided it isn't worth the extra weight or manufacturing cost.
The rifle in the picture is almost certainly a PM md. 65. I assure you they were made with dust covers. I have never seen a variation of a factory produced AK made without a dust cover.
A more likely, although still somewhat silly explanation is that sometimes AK dust covers can be tricky to get back on for someone inexperienced with them. Somebody may just give up in frustration and leave it off after disassembling and attempting to reassemble it.
Does anyone know if he survived?
I have been looking, unfortunately while the picture is widely circulated the person in the photo is not named anywhere I can find. I will update the post if I come across anything.
Thanks.
A terrorist, you say?
I looked for more information on the photo before posting and unfortunately I couldn’t find specifics on the identity of the man pictured.
If he was an anti-communist fighter in Romania, he would have been fighting in its 1989 revolution which overthrew the Warsaw Pact aligned Romanian Communist Party. The result of the overthrow being a republic styled government.
If I find anything specific I will update the post though.
Actual antifa
Communism and fascism are not the same thing. They are opposite ends of the political spectrum.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism
Red fascism was a term coined by actual leftists (the original coining was by a Marxist) but largely co-opted by liberals and cryptofascists alike for their anti-communist rhetoric in the Cold War period.
There's no particular reason to think this guy is against totalitarianism in general though, even if you acknowledge the term monarchists and fascists aren't antifa for fighting red fascists.
There's also no particular reason to think he wasn't an anarchist. Or a liberal. Or literally anything besides a Ceausescu supporter.
He was an anti-communist living in Romania and being given quite a lot of reasons to be so, thus the near immediate 1989 Romanian Revolution when the Soviets fell, and that's where our knowledge on his politics ends.
Hell, half the revolutionaries were communists themselves, nearly the entire military defected after the minister of defense was assumedly executed for refusing to give orders to fire on protestors.
It's anti-Authoritarianism. Branding every awful dictatorship as facism helps no one.
How so?