Finland Red, Egypt White

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Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows wich AK 47 manual is read on Finland Red, Egypt White? And how Andrew had the idea to use it?
Did he own one?!
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Didn't the Cure do a shopping list first?

I always thought the emphasis of the lyrics being...
'Tracer cartridges are used for target identification,
fire adjustment, signal purposes and destroying personnel
(Destroying personnel)'
...a political comment on the roles of weaponry being seen as 'cool' within our present culture ;)
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silentNate wrote:Didn't the Cure do a shopping list first?
the cure did a shopping list :eek: whats the name this song?, dont´t think I know it even tough I really like the cure.

Destroying personnel: and destroy :von:s enemys....
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Ooops- not a shopping list but an advert for a cake icing set:-
Each set includes
A turntable
A nine inch icing bag
With six high definition nozzles and adaptor
With a fifteen inch food decorating bag
With three piping nozzles
Please send off this leaflet
Post it today
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Little_Sister wrote:Hi, I was just wondering if anyone knows wich AK 47 manual is read on Finland Red, Egypt White? And how Andrew had the idea to use it?
Did he own one?!
it was online, i think i may have it saved somewhere, will check tonight :wink:
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This is the link to AK 47 Manual from US Army

http://www.ak47.net/content/manuals/AK4 ... l.pdf[url]

This site has other manuals also, if you want check it for any other ak manual...
http://www.ak47.net/content/manuals/

Interesting site also is the En Wikipedia article for AK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47#Manual
which includes 2 manuals and other external links to manufacturer's site etc...
i hope this will help, but i don't know if one of those was used by :von: in this song, or he used another manual... :innocent:
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It was probably just a cool idea at the time.
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wow, so many replys - thank you guys!
I have lots of manuals to read now.
Dark wrote:It was probably just a cool idea at the time.
a very cool idea!
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I think it's silly :lol:
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What I think is, :von: chose the particular government sales flyer in question because of the line "Finland red, Germany black, Egypt white" (weapon is color-coded for the client country), leaving Germany out of the song's title so as to better "mark" this with his name: finland red, egypt white." :!:
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it must be true.
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/me cries at the tenuity
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we've got another one...
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Avtomat Kalashnikova... well, I remember when I went to school - back in 80s, when my country was still added to one big totalitarian state - we exercised taking off AKs and putting them back again. marks depended on the fast of doing it.
sorry, it was quite off-topic but that was what I recall seeing the picture.
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pikkrong wrote:Avtomat Kalashnikova... well, I remember when I went to school - back in 80s, when my country was still added to one big totalitarian state - we exercised taking off AKs and putting them back again. marks depended on the fast of doing it.
sorry, it was quite off-topic but that was what I recall seeing the picture.
My wife did that as well (she's from Vilnius). Every once in a while, she'll threaten to break out the AK on me :)
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hehe, i've got the same. the lessons was called "defensive prepare" or something... very funny as well :lol:
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:lol: Indeed, and we also had to learn about how to behave in a shelter in case of atom explosion, and how to use gas masks. That was cool! :lol: :notworthy:
Well not really, but in a way it was cool. :|
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:eek: I don't remember even ever having touched a gun. The only time I've even seen guns is carried by policemen at airports or outside the UK.
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We had to learn hiding behind things for a long time incase those pesky Germans threatened to come back again. And how to build a nuclear shelter from a kitchen table and rolled up newspaper incase those troublesome Ruskies started shouting too loud.
I´m going to teach my child how to speak different languages and to be really tolerent with everyone incase her future is threatened by misunderstanding.
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E Gypsy wrote:We had to learn hiding behind things for a long time incase those pesky Germans threatened to come back again. And how to build a nuclear shelter from a kitchen table and rolled up newspaper incase those troublesome Ruskies started shouting too loud.
I´m going to teach my child how to speak different languages and to be really tolerent with everyone incase her future is threatened by misunderstanding.
and where are you from? (sorry if I have missed or forgotten anything)
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pikkrong wrote:
E Gypsy wrote:We had to learn hiding behind things for a long time incase those pesky Germans threatened to come back again. And how to build a nuclear shelter from a kitchen table and rolled up newspaper incase those troublesome Ruskies started shouting too loud.
I´m going to teach my child how to speak different languages and to be really tolerent with everyone incase her future is threatened by misunderstanding.
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E Gypsy wrote:
pikkrong wrote:
E Gypsy wrote:We had to learn hiding behind things for a long time incase those pesky Germans threatened to come back again. And how to build a nuclear shelter from a kitchen table and rolled up newspaper incase those troublesome Ruskies started shouting too loud.
I´m going to teach my child how to speak different languages and to be really tolerent with everyone incase her future is threatened by misunderstanding.
and where are you from? (sorry if I have missed or forgotten anything)
Planet Earth. And you?
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pikkrong wrote:
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Looks nice :innocent:
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Ferrette wrote:What I think is, :von: chose the particular government sales flyer in question because of the line "Finland red, Germany black, Egypt white" (weapon is color-coded for the client country), leaving Germany out of the song's title so as to better "mark" this with his name: finland red, egypt white." :!:
I thought it was the ammunition that was colour-coded? I'll have to listen to the track again to be sure though.

As for the choice of AK-47? Well, just have a look at the history of said assault rifle. As it's been the weapon of choice for pretty much every single armed insurrection of the 20th/21st Century (primarily due to ease of manufacture and maintenance), it's practically the icon of rebellion.
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Saw a great piece of work at the venice biennale about the ak47,
if you've got a min read the text on the flickr link its really interesting.....


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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaleaver/689899969/
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