Kalashnikov dies

Mikhail Kalashnikov died before Christmas aged  94

Robert Fisk interviewed Mikhail Kalashnikov in 2001.  At the end of the interview he noted Kalashnikov interesting refection on the after life.  As recorded in The Independent Newspaper:

So is Mikhail Kalashnikov now in heaven or hell?  Of course, I asked him back then what God would really say of him when he died?  "We were educated in such a way that I am probably an atheist," he replied.  "But something exists..."