:Apeadeiro

Do you know why I do what I do ? I mean, there are more prestigeous assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenals - you’d think that be more critical to world security. But it’s not. No, nine out of ten war victims today are killed with assault rifles and small arms - like yours. Those nuclear weapons sit in their silos. Your AK-47, that’s the real weapon of mass destruction. [Jack Valentine, the Interpol policeman to Yuri Orlov]

Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other… I guess they can’t own up to what they usually are: a federation of worse oppressors than the last bunch of oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom-fighters.

After the Cold War, the AK-47 became Russia’s biggest export. After that came vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.