I thought he helped to prevent more famine deaths in post Revolution USSR, but he also helped himself handsomely on the side. What a mercenary swine.
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It's hard to imagine given today's art prices, but in the depression the money that the Soviet Union received for selling off their art was really minuscule as far as the state budget was concerned. It was completely unnecessary.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1377527/How-the-Bolsheviks-sold-Russias-treasures.html …
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