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Pobeda45 Wrote:It still amazes me. I am sure the coins were probably F-VF-XF condition anyway, probably worth $50 combined.. :thumbsdown:thumbsdown
How much would that value increase if we add the bribes?
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I would pay any bribe not to go to Russian prison... :banghead
Mind you, most foreigners in Russian prisons are seen as cash cows, and the families constantly have to bribe the prison officials. Tig Hague, whose book I referenced, had a year added to his sentence in Siberia (the camp commandant has the ability to extend sentences, outside court) and had his family spend over $100,000 to get him out.
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Pobeda45 Wrote:I would pay any bribe not to go to Russian prison... :banghead
Mind you, most foreigners in Russian prisons are seen as cash cows, and the families constantly have to bribe the prison officials. Tig Hague, whose book I referenced, had a year added to his sentence in Siberia (the camp commandant has the ability to extend sentences, outside court) and had his family spend over $100,000 to get him out.
George
Not so different to Uncle Joe´s era...
Now I definitely wouldn´t like to deal with a russian cop for nothing. Ever.
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Makes me glad that Russian customs didn't find the Defense of Leningrad medal I had in my backpack when I left St. Petersburg and gives me a shiver to think of what the consequences would have been if they had.
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in xSoviet prisons if a person not form particular group of organise crime is a cash cow this way or other, of course it works very well with foreigners, who don't know some non-written rules of prison and scared to dead.
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I am not that surprised... but on the other hand, I am not the one crying blood at this moment for the awards lost to customs either.
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I am sad for that Nevsky that will probably never see the light of day again. :thumbsdown
