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When English postmaster Rowland Hill initiated the world's first postage stamp, the Black Penny, in 1840, his intention was simply to introduce a uniform and cheap postal rate. But in a few years the example of England was followed by other countries, and the stamps themselves turned from a utilitarian object into an object of collecting.
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In the early 1920s, the leadership of the Soviet state placed abroad most of the gold reserves of the Russian Empire. The main operations in this direction were carried out by Maxim Litvinov, Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR. The funds withdrawn from Russia settled in the secret accounts of the party.
However, Litvinov's channel was not the only one through which the “worker-peasant” power squandered the national patrimony. At least a quarter of the gold reserve went with the help of railroad engineer Yuri Lomonosov, Lenin's special envoy abroad.
The year is 1718. The Caribbean Sea is dominated by a dangerous band of British pirates, dubbed the “Flying Gang” by their contemporaries. They devastate ships traveling from America to Africa and Europe. In this regard, London merchants are on the verge of bankruptcy. This did not please the English monarch George I. Together with the famous pirate hunter Woods Rogers, he devises a cunning plan for the complete elimination of piracy.
There is nothing more frightening than an angry woman who has lost her husband. French King Philip VI and his court aristocrats were convinced of this. During the Hundred Years' War, a Breton knight and wealthy landowner with his castle, Olivier de Clisson IV, sided with the king and France.
While the Red Army was fighting the Wehrmacht at the front, the criminal underworld was becoming more active at the rear. The authorities and law enforcement agencies were weakened: many employees left for the front. Hard life, progressive poverty of the population, lack of food and the most necessary things also led to the growth of crime. In addition, during the war years, trade and subsistence exchange in the markets flourished. And where there are spontaneous markets, there is crime.