Why Americans LOVED Soviet AK-74

The AKM was sacred, but the Soviets ditched it anyway, trading its heavy 7.62 punch for a skinny little 5.45 round that tumbled through flesh so savagely the Afghans who faced it called it the poison bullet. Forged in the deserts of the Soviet-Afghan war and barely altered since, the AK-74 went on to follow nearly every dirty conflict of the last half century, from the mass graves of Bosnia to the rubble of Grozny. Subscribe :) ! Chapters: 0:00 Why the Soviets ditched the AKM for AK74 3:18 Debut in Soviet Afghan War 6:53 The Bosnian war 9:08 First and Second Chechen Wars 11:52 Why it is still used today