Claim: The AK-47 has been used by Russians.
Evidence: In the spring of 1949 , the AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact.
The Soviet Armed Forces , also called the Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Armed Forces of the Soviet Union -LRB- Russian : Вооружённые Силы Союза Советских Социалистических Республик Vooruzhonnyye Sily Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik , Вооружённые Силы Советского Союза -RRB- refers to the armed forces of the Russian SFSR -LRB- 1917 -- 1922 -RRB- , and Soviet Union -LRB- 1922 -- 1991 -RRB- from their beginnings in the aftermath of the Russian Civil War to its dissolution in December 1991.