Originally Posted by TheSquealer

uhmm.... there was no "Russian mafia" in 1984 in the Soviet Union apart from what is called "Thieves in Law" and they were hardly sophisticated,... ever. These are very low level criminals who's obligation to the group is to spend their lives in prison AND NOT HAVE, SAVE OR INVEST MONEY.

Not to mention the fact that there were no legal mechanisms for moving large volumes of money out of the county, investing outside the country, laundering outside the country etc as the only way to move money would be through the 1 and only government bank that existed at the time. I mean you are taking about a body of government that oversaw the production of everything or the cost of milk or price of a jacket nation-wide. it's not like money was just flying around unaccounted for or the system was easy to game.

I mean the stupidity of that quote is off the charts. There was no "Russian Mafia" at the time. People were getting executed in the 80s in Moscow for relatively petty crimes like selling grocery store inventory out the back door. You have a fanatically patriotic intelligence agency watching every citizen and their every move... even to the point of putting all older women on the first floor of apartment buildings next to entrances to have nosey people who know exactly who comes and goes out of every single apartment building in the nation. People being snatched off the street and disappearing simply because they promoted buddhism by putting a flyer on the wall in the entry to their apartment building and dumb shit. It's 100% retarded to make such claims and obviously can't be proven.

I mean KGB had (still has) a military branch to do things like stand right next to the guy on the nuclear sub with a pistol pointed at his head to make sure he turns the key. Yet somehow, billions of dollars were moving in and out of a nation with no financial system, one national bank, a currency not used or exchanged anywhere on the planet and in a nation that had a lot of cities ("closed cities") locked down so tight you needed permission to enter or leave even as a Soviet citizen... and where any city can't even be entered or left without going through a police checkpoint.

Sounds legit.

I guess if you just say "Russian Mafia" + "Trump" in the sales formula, idiots will "ooh and ahhh" and it's easier to sell books.

So you have a stupid book written for stupid people riddled with "may have", "some believe", "could possibly...", "seems to indicate" etc etc etc