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Exactly that, never to be seen again :)

by ErneX 10mo ago

caminante 10mo ago
Huh? If you melt down gold, how are you not staring at the same gold? Moscow didn't steal anything either.
- ErneX 10mo ago
  "The Spaniards will never see their gold again, just as they don't see their ears" this is supposedly what Stalin said according to Alexander Orlov. From the same link.
  - throw20251220 10mo ago
    > supposedly
    - ErneX 10mo ago
      I’d give it the same relevance as “Moscow didn’t steal the gold” in any case.
      - caminante 10mo ago
        If you sell something to another party or they deposit it in a bank on your behalf, then the other party didn't steal it.
  - caminante 10mo ago
    You didn't answer my question. Cherrypicking a quote from Stalin who was using sarcastic humor at a banquet when the gold arrived also doesn't refute my point or answer my question.
- gtech1 10mo ago
  Hah, and me who thought they only stole Romania's national treasure, under the guise of 'safekeeping'. I guess Russia has always been a shitty country.
  - caminante 10mo ago
    Except you're leaving out two key facts: 1. National treasures (ex gold) were returned in '35 and '56. 2. Romania intervened against the Bolsheviks in Bessarabia. #2 seems like FAFO to me. And I'm sure some Romanians got kickbacks from the "transfers." Nobody forced Romania to transfer their assets.
    - gtech1 10mo ago
      You have no idea what you are talking about. 1. They never returned 92tons of gold. The vast majority of the national treasure is still in Moscow. I hope the EU ties this to the current Russian assets frozen in the EU. 2. Bolsheviks ? Russia collapsed in 1917 and Bassarabia voted to join Romania. There was no Russian control in Bassarabia, no war, no fight. Nobody forced them, true, they were in dire circumstances, but it proves even more how much Russians can be trusted. 0. Shitty country since forever.
      - caminante 10mo ago
        Please read again and calm down. I expressly said "ex gold." >Bolsheviks ? Lmao. Where are you getting these falses premises? 1. Who rose to power after Russia collapsed in 2017? 2. There was no Bolshevik fighting or presence in Bessarabia? 3. Romania didn't intervene to fight Bolsheviks in Bessarabia? You must be hallucinating to think otherwise.[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention_in_Bessarabia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention...
        caminante 10mo ago
        1917*
        10mo ago

Exactly that, never to be seen again :)

by ErneX 10mo ago

Exactly that, never to be seen again :)

caminante 10mo ago

Huh? If you melt down gold, how are you not staring at the same gold? Moscow didn't steal anything either.

ErneX 10mo ago
"The Spaniards will never see their gold again, just as they don't see their ears" this is supposedly what Stalin said according to Alexander Orlov. From the same link.
- throw20251220 10mo ago
  > supposedly
  - ErneX 10mo ago
    I’d give it the same relevance as “Moscow didn’t steal the gold” in any case.
    - caminante 10mo ago
      If you sell something to another party or they deposit it in a bank on your behalf, then the other party didn't steal it.
- caminante 10mo ago
  You didn't answer my question. Cherrypicking a quote from Stalin who was using sarcastic humor at a banquet when the gold arrived also doesn't refute my point or answer my question.
gtech1 10mo ago
Hah, and me who thought they only stole Romania's national treasure, under the guise of 'safekeeping'. I guess Russia has always been a shitty country.
- caminante 10mo ago
  Except you're leaving out two key facts: 1. National treasures (ex gold) were returned in '35 and '56. 2. Romania intervened against the Bolsheviks in Bessarabia. #2 seems like FAFO to me. And I'm sure some Romanians got kickbacks from the "transfers." Nobody forced Romania to transfer their assets.
  - gtech1 10mo ago
    You have no idea what you are talking about. 1. They never returned 92tons of gold. The vast majority of the national treasure is still in Moscow. I hope the EU ties this to the current Russian assets frozen in the EU. 2. Bolsheviks ? Russia collapsed in 1917 and Bassarabia voted to join Romania. There was no Russian control in Bassarabia, no war, no fight. Nobody forced them, true, they were in dire circumstances, but it proves even more how much Russians can be trusted. 0. Shitty country since forever.
    - caminante 10mo ago
      Please read again and calm down. I expressly said "ex gold." >Bolsheviks ? Lmao. Where are you getting these falses premises? 1. Who rose to power after Russia collapsed in 2017? 2. There was no Bolshevik fighting or presence in Bessarabia? 3. Romania didn't intervene to fight Bolsheviks in Bessarabia? You must be hallucinating to think otherwise.[0] [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention_in_Bessarabia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_military_intervention...
      - caminante 10mo ago
        1917*
      - 10mo ago