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Russian intelligence dances two waltzes with Soviet-era satire

By Tom Rogan
Published November 18, 2020 8:27pm ET
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Russian intelligence dances two waltzes with Soviet-era satire
Russian military Mi-35 helicopter takes off from the building of the Federal Security Service (FSB, Soviet KGB successor) in Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a meeting with top officials of the Federal Security Service on Friday. | (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

On Wednesday, Russia’s SVR and FSB intelligence services made real the fictional “children of Lieutenant Schmidt” fraudsters from Ilf and Petrov’s early Soviet-era satire, The Little Golden Calf.

The two services’ latest frauds are almost amusing in their absurdity.

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