There's a post-Soviet phrase hailing the inventor of the ak-47: "God merely created man; equality was made possible thanks to General Kalashnikov."
Read my next post from them. It's a doozy. Now remember, they won 3 seats in the Rada (Parliment) riding on Yushchenko's Our Ukraine's tail. They are also bosom buddies with Yulia Tomoschenko, who is Yushchenko's second and future VP. Lovely bunch.