Harmon Seaver wrote: > What sort of dictatorship is this where the people own automatic weapons > freely? Shades of Switzerland!
Soviet Armenia? When they fell out with the Azeris they got their scratch army together in /days/ According to the Russian news they used "hunting rifles". I'd been reading enough of the gun-wanking propaganda from the US on lists like this to think that people in places like Armenia didn't have guns. Turns out that in some rural parts of USSR quite a lot of people had them and of course it all made no difference to anything political whatever as long as the Soviets were willing to control the place. As soon as it became obvious that no Russians intended to die to keep Armenia in the Union, things changed.
