When leaving, the emigrants took the most valuable things from their homeland. And preferably light - so that you can take it to Rome and push it at the transfer.
Knowledgeable people claimed: in addition to caviar, vodka and optics, red star paraphernalia is good in those parts - army hats, pennants and other Soviet nonsense...
N. approached the issue radically and took a couple of kilograms of October badges from the Zhytomyr region for sale. And - he was not in demand: by the mid-80s, Lenin, small with a curly head, was not worth a penny in Italy...
Apparently, two kilograms of small scrap were waiting for the trash heap in Rimini, but there were no fortresses that the Bolsheviks would not take! N. complied with the demand and began to pass off young Ilyich as the little football player Zavarov (he had just arrived to play for Juventus).
The Italians bought up the October badges as they were so cute...