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** Special mention must be made of the fact that literally nothing he says in this speech is true, but its sold so convincingly that it also serves as something of an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Yuri's charisma and sales skills, that he can even sell the audience![[note]] The AK "model of 1947" was only ever made as a prototype, what the world outside Russia calls an "AK-47" is actually just called the AK, and it is almost totally a different product made to correct the teething problems of that "model of 1947". Of note is that the AK uses a milled receiver, not a forged one. The most exported AK model is the AKM (and is a big part of why it was made, for export). Mozambique's flag features an AKM symbolizing their independence struggle against Portugal, and the rifle is still the standard issue rifle of their armed forces. The USSR never put ANY weapons on coins officially, only private creators have made "USSR Inspired" coins with weapons on them. The AK47, AKM, AK74, et al, despite their reputation, are actually surprisingly fragile, prone to jamming and breaking especially if covered in mud or filled with sand. This is largely due to the people making them, western clones made by legitimate gunsmiths with quality materials tend to be able to live up to the AK's "legendary" reputation at least as well as any non-AK rifle. However third world countries, or nations using substandard labor, substandard designs, and substandard materials tend to produce substandard products. Russian equipment in general is infamous for this fact due to a perpetual focus on quantity over quality resulting in numerous cut corners. And since the end of the Cold War, oil is Russia's primary export as countries prefer to license/clone the AK locally rather than importing them from Russia and be subject to Russia's legendary unreliability in fabrication output. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And it weighs 8lbs]], less if it has a folding stock. [[/note]]
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** At one point, Valentine manages to corner Yuri but he doesn't have any concrete evidence to justify arresting him (since Yuri already let the local villagers take all the guns away). Valentine instead cited that he's legally allowed to 'detain' Yuri for 24 hours and he's gonna use every single second of it and handcuff Yuri to a briefcase and strand him in the middle of nowhere, reasoning that one day of Yuri not going about his gunrunning business means one more day given to the innocent people who would've been killed by the guns he's selling. Yuri also darkly speculates that Valentine left him out there in hopes that the African wilderness or bandits would kill him.
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** At one point, Valentine manages to corner Yuri but he doesn't have any concrete evidence to justify arresting him (since Yuri already let the local villagers take all the guns away). Valentine instead cited that he's legally allowed to 'detain' Yuri for 24 hours and he's gonna use every single second of it and handcuff Yuri to a briefcase and strand him in the middle of nowhere, reasoning that one day of Yuri not going about his gunrunning business means one more day given to the innocent people who would've been killed by the guns he's selling. Yuri also darkly speculates that Valentine left him out there in hopes that the African wilderness or bandits would kill him. At the very least, Valentine isn't shady enough to kill Yuri himself in a VigilanteExecution despite prodding from his colleagues.
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** When Liberian dictator Andre Baptiste casually [[BadBoss guns down one of his own men]] in front of Yuri, the latter instinctively reacts with outrage only to have every gun in the room pointed at him. He covers this up by claiming that the gun Baptiste shot the guy with is now a piece of "used" merchandise, and Yuri won't be able to sell it to anyone else now. Baptiste finds this excuse oddly amusing, and makes Yuri his regular arms contact. Yuri's excuse is so funny because as a black market arms dealer virtually every gun he ever sells is "used", and such an exclamation can be read as a self-deprecating joke about his own out-of-place 'first world' demeanor.
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** When Liberian dictator Andre Baptiste casually [[BadBoss guns down one of his own men]] in front of Yuri, the latter instinctively reacts with outrage only to have every gun rifle in the room pointed at him. He covers this up by claiming that the gun revolver Baptiste shot the guy with is now a piece of "used" merchandise, and Yuri won't be able to sell it to anyone else now. Baptiste finds this excuse oddly amusing, and makes Yuri his regular arms contact. Yuri's excuse is so funny because as a black market arms dealer virtually every gun he ever sells is "used", and such an exclamation can be read as a self-deprecating joke about his own out-of-place 'first world' demeanor.
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-->'''Yuri:''' I never sold to Osama bin Laden. Not on any moral grounds; back then, he was always bouncing checks.
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