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also... again, the above (or some of it) should be put in its proper context. you are talking about a time when the soviet union had just collapsed and it looked like the communist party was about to take power again. the entire nation was bankrupt and in shambles... so everyone was scrambling to get what they could and stash it away. it might not make a lot of sense to an american... but when you are trying to live on 90$ a month as a tenured university professor in a country that's falling apart and appears to have no future and you have the chance to rip off $500,000.00 from the local budget, school budget or whatever, with little to no chance of getting caught... you're most likely going to do it.
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