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Shawn is correct, museums often steal from themselves in Russia. I have gotten things from museums as they have sold or lessened their collections. Is that stealing? Who knows. There were a huge number of smaller museums that shut down and sold off their items. Larger museums also sold off items to raise funds. They had large reserve collections that could be used to support the rest of the museum.
But, yes, there have also been outright stolen items from museums. Its very difficult to find out where items are from; the Russian suppliers do not like to talk about it. As for the other republics, in general they did get ownership of all items unless the items were on specific loan from the Central Red Army Museum. This caused a problem as Central asked for alot of stuff back that they never got. Alot of it was sold off by museums in Kiev and Minsk, etc. rather than return it. DougD |
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Soviet awards - wanted by Interpol
Some Soviet awards are on the search list put together by Interpol (Ukrainian branch). Take a look at the list - there's a list of serial numbers and detailed descriptions.
Here's the link: http://icpo.centrmia.gov.ua/ART/number/number1.htm William |
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Strangely enough - they list some WWII campaign medals which don't have serial numbers or any other unique characteristics - how do they expect to those medals?
I guess if you have one of the medals in your collection - you're in trouble |
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Jeez, do they not have any better tasks to waste the government money on? Drug smugglers, trafficing, frauds...
A friend who runs a small antique shop in Sweden said a few years ago that russian officials from the embassy used to come to his store and write down serial numbers from orders so that they could trace the owner and find out why he has illegaly sold his award... Don't know if this is 100% true though, but it is what he said. /Patrik |
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Yeah, I wonder how they will find those Campaign Medals! I guess we are all in trouble ... Dolf |
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I agree 100% with you Patrik! Why they don't waste their time and OUR taxes money in something more profitable for us all?!... But that makes me wonder, are we doing some illegal activity by collecting these Awards or what?! Dolf |
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American laws were fine with this last time I checked William |
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William, But I guess they would have to caught us in Russia, right? There is nothing they can do to us in Europe or the US, right? Thanks, Dolf |
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I've heard stories about Interpol confiscating (or at least attempting to) awards that were reported stolen by the families in FSU. Sad truth is that since sale of awards is prohibited in Russia - families often sell them anyway, but report as stolen just to cover themselves... William |
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I think they are more interested in Awards stolen from the state museums.
Like that Suvorov 1 that had it's number altered... Rusty.
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