Not only in desperate places. I heard last year (or the year before) someone stole few km of train wire in Germany. Although to this day some people think it wa

Not only in desperate places. I heard last year (or the year before) someone stole few km of train wire in Germany. Although to this day some people think it was a Russian sabotage rather than genuine theft. Previously (for example in Poland) I used to hear about things like this all the time until maybe a decade ago.