03-28-2003, 02:23 PM
In my mind there are two "factories" although for all I know they are probably kitchen operations.
One is definitely in Ukraine, the other might be as well. The Ukraine one produces most of the known types. It has a least three, and likely more, "authors" as I have detected at least that many different handwrittings. The second produces the very "messy" SMERSH documents and a few other types.
As for laws. There is no law against making documents for non-existant organizations. There is currently no OGPU, no NKVD, no NKGB, no MGB, no Soviet MVD, etc. I think there may be some laws covering the KGB despite the fact that it no longer exists. This would help to explain why there are no good KGB fakes at all, just the blank bad ones.
The real crime comes with misrepresentation. It is a crime or an offence to misrepresent anything you sell. But, this is hard to enforce. We have to prove it was fake, the selle knew that and be in a jurisdicton where it can be enforced.
Perhaps letters of complaint to E would help though.
Shawn
One is definitely in Ukraine, the other might be as well. The Ukraine one produces most of the known types. It has a least three, and likely more, "authors" as I have detected at least that many different handwrittings. The second produces the very "messy" SMERSH documents and a few other types.
As for laws. There is no law against making documents for non-existant organizations. There is currently no OGPU, no NKVD, no NKGB, no MGB, no Soviet MVD, etc. I think there may be some laws covering the KGB despite the fact that it no longer exists. This would help to explain why there are no good KGB fakes at all, just the blank bad ones.
The real crime comes with misrepresentation. It is a crime or an offence to misrepresent anything you sell. But, this is hard to enforce. We have to prove it was fake, the selle knew that and be in a jurisdicton where it can be enforced.
Perhaps letters of complaint to E would help though.
Shawn
