Originally Posted by TheSquealer

again, you are continually attempting to conflate irrelevant timelines and irrelevant facts.

As i've said many times now, I was only responding to the language of your quote. ....
1984
Soviet Union
Russian Mafia
Laundering BILLIONS of USD in foreign countries

and as the article quote said and as i have said already several times... the only "organized crime" in 1984 in the Soviet Union were small time nobodies smuggling jeans and counterfeiting bibles and low level shit, corrupt Communist Party members who were executed when discovered and loose bands of "thieves in law", who by their own rules are required to not have assets, not save money and to spend the bulk of their lives in prison... they were not well structured, global criminal empires laundering BILLIONS of Dollars in foreign countries. They were simply convicts who could not operate within the Soviet System, get good jobs etc and therefore vowed to embrace prison and operating outside the system.

But again, don't let actual relevant facts get in the way of a good Orange Man Bad rant.