Kalashnikov sets sights on superbrand

As seen on Boing Boing. The funny bit about this story, to me, is the following. I've got no problem with being hesitant to do business with US marketing firms, but the ironic logic here is priceless:

Kalashnikov, who began work on the rifle in 1941 after suffering serious wounds while fighting Nazi Germany, said he had received similar offers from US firms but was reluctant to enter a business deal with the Soviet Union's Cold War enemy.

"...I thought if an American company used my name for profit it would have been a betrayal of the motherland," he said.