Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe

Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by dzhiurgis on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:12PM (#40205278)

Heh it's all too real for us in Eastern Europe.

Back in Soviet Union if you ever get a blessing to visit another country, you have interviews with KGB, one before leaving and one on return. Upon return they asked if you bringing any contraband, currency and one of the question is "Why did you return?".

So, my parents lived with me in NZ for last few months. When they got back dad's boating mates decided to grill him - Why did you return?

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Re:Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and p... by ajuc on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @01:35AM (#40207560)

It was fun all around.

To be allowed to leave you had to sign a paper promising to "tell" the secret service on your travel companions after the trip. So everybody on the trip was living in paranoia of one another.

It was mostly to later have some blackmail material on you if you became opposition - you signed the paper so you're an agent of the system.

And when (if) you returned - regular people assumed you have some connections to the regime and treated you like an enemy.

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