Russia, land of opportunity. Sure glad my grandparents walked from the Volga to Hamburg and took a ship to Ellis Island.
Too bad to read this - under Communism, corruption was bad, but “ethical”. We used to send items to relatives living in a SSR. We quickly learned that if you sent something, it would get “lost”. However, if you sent TWO identical items, one of them would always get delivered! It would have been just as easy for the customs inspectors to steal both...