Story was, Back in the day, when the ‘bad guys’ thought it good sport to attack American Embassies someone noted that only ONE Russian Embassy was attacked. ONE.
When ‘investigated’ it seems after the attack one of their people was being held for ransom and Moscow virtually said ‘Keep him’.
Then they started sending body parts or a body to the offending country and PROMISED them the longer the siege was on, the more ‘packages’ they could expect.
Siege was over quite quickly and I think the next ‘problem’ was J Carter and an embassy ....... where we languished for quite a while and J Carter tried to ‘solve’ the problem by turning down the White House heat and be ‘captured’ on camera wearing a Cardigan Sweater......
>>>Story was, Back in the day, when the ‘bad guys’ thought it good sport to attack American Embassies someone noted that only ONE Russian Embassy was attacked. ONE.<<<
In fact there was one case of destroying a Russian Embassy. Coincidentally, it happened in Tehran, Iran in 1829.
Just a few years before it, Russia has won a Russian-Iranian War (it was about to teach Iran a lesson over an alleged persecution of Christians).
An incident started with a mob lynching two Christian women and one man who somehow managed to escape climbing over a fence of Russian Embassy in downtown Tehran. These people were aware of Russian position toward religious issues and requested asylum. Russian ambassador Griboyedov has granted asylum immediately and ordered marines to open fire on a mob storming his Embassy. Local imams fond it as a major insult on Islam and soon about a half of Tehran’s male population gathered around to riot. Russians has run out of ammo very soon, their compound were captured and everyone got killed, including Griboyedov.
As for an event you are mentioning it has probably happened in Beirut, Lebanon circa 1985, as Hezbollah abducted a KGB operative lurking around their mobs.
KGB has abducted one of Hezbollah leaders, a family members of other leaders and sent privates of some of them to Hezbollah headquarters.
A KGB agent was released a few days later.