[HN Gopher] Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at col...
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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's
auction
Author : rbanffy
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-02-19 11:18 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.theregister.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.theregister.com)
| trhway wrote:
| a true patriot would do anything for the Motherland - "A KGB
| rectal concealment capsule"
| https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/feb/10/relics...
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| The starting price looks to be $400 or $450. A total opposite to
| glorious missile cars and laser watches of Bond. A kind of
| illustration of a typical contrast between reality of a given
| profession and it's portrayal in movies, etc.
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| And it's knurled. Those freaky Soviets.
| ggm wrote:
| It's in "papillon". Used in prisons worldwide
| sargun wrote:
| The CIA has the infamous escape toolkit:
| https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-c...
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| Which is similar, but is designed for tools
| jballer wrote:
| needs a banana for scale...
| WreckedAllFun wrote:
| Unless they are Enemas of The People.
| medium_burrito wrote:
| Escape from zhopab!
| [deleted]
| 88840-8855 wrote:
| It is very strange that nobody is talking about the dramatic
| effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I believe that the
| collapse is comparable to the post-colonisation effects.
|
| Nobody is talking about the millions of people who got their
| lives destroyed. Science ended in nothing. Careers disappeared.
| The GDP took 20 years to recover as it plummeted to the 1960s
| levels after the collapse. This all was celebrated as "great
| victory" of freedom and the free markets, ignoring the
| grandparents of the 1990s who hanged themselves because there was
| no money to pay anything.
|
| This "Fialka" mentioned in the article is just another artifact
| of the big mistake we are continuing to do and are still not
| realizing that we were wrong in the way we treated the countries
| and people after the collapse. Funny enough that exactly this
| arrogant behavior has lead to leaders like Xi, who is so consumed
| by the effects of the collapse of the Soviet Union that directly
| impacts relationships we believe that matter, e.g. Hong Kong,
| Taiwan and Xinjiang with their Uighurs.
| seppin wrote:
| > Funny enough that exactly this arrogant behavior has lead to
| leaders like Xi, who is so consumed by the effects of the
| collapse of the Soviet Union that directly impacts
| relationships we believe that matter, e.g. Hong Kong, Taiwan
| and Xinjiang with their Uighurs.
|
| The west, by not recapitalizing a bankrupt system (that
| threatened them with nuclear annihilation for decades) is to
| blame for Xi operating concentration camps?
| sneak wrote:
| To clarify the title: Enigma was German, this is (predictably)
| not an Enigma, being soviet. The quotes are to indicate faux, not
| to specify exactly.
| SimeVidas wrote:
| In related news, a set of Pokemon trading cards from the 90's
| recently sold for almost $200k [1]. Our species sure has strange
| priorities.
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| [1]: https://gamerant.com/pokemon-card-set-record-price/
| userbinator wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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