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i don't think nikita kruschev really handed these things out more than stalin did. stalin died fairly early in the kalashnikov cycle. i don't think that he ever foresaw that they'd be carried by an american-sponsored military, you know, bought cheap and issued. this is unintended consequences, right? and i don't think when we issued them in pakistan back in the '80s to flow into afghanistan that we would ever see osama bin laden using them as propaganda devices in the videos after 9/11. i mean, the whole story's unintended consequences, so i agree with you. >> the only time i've seen one was at -- [inaudible] >> yeah. and can then the finns made a kalashnikov, too, so both sides of the border have them. >> yeah, okay. >> [inaudible] >> who was kalashnikov? >> who is kalashnikov, he's still alive. >> he's still alive? >> kalashnikov is a russian cosack, he was born out in the step near kaszikstan. what's he doing out there, right? this doesn't make sense. under the czar, families had been relocated to populate the step, and his father had taken one of these incentive