'I sleep soundly'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1059879,00.html
Shamed by his parents' exile, he was determined to do his bit for the
Soviet cause. And so Mikhail Kalashnikov invented what was to become
the world's most prolific killing machine. Nick Paton Walsh tracks
down the 83-year-old at his tranquil lakesid
Friday October 10, 2003
The Guardian
For a man whose name is so inextricably connected with death, Mikhail
Kalashnikov could not have asked for a more tranquil twilight to his
life. He spends his summer days at a country house on the bank of a
crystalline lake, in the heart of the south Urals countryside, a few
miles from the industrial heartland of Izhevsk. Here, amid sky-high
pines and mosquitoes the size of pigeons, he and his elfin
granddaughter, Ilona, seven, play together at clearing wood, and
breathe in the rich, clean air.
Yet for those around him, life is not so peaceful. Years of
test-firing the automatic weapons that have both made and taken his
name have left the 83-year-old very deaf indeed. If you want him to
hear you, you have to put your mouth a few inches away from his ear
and speak very loudly.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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