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510 tonnes went to Moscow to never be seen again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Gold_(Spain)


No it didn't. The gold didn't disappear.

Did you actually read the wiki you linked?

Spain transferred the gold to Moscow who liquidated it on Spain's behalf to buy guns, fund the civil war, and deposit in banks.

There's mixed views whether Moscow took too much of a margin, but they melted down gold after selling it and the gold is still in circulation.

Exactly that, never to be seen again :)
Huh?

If you melt down gold, how are you not staring at the same gold?

Moscow didn't steal anything either.

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.

> I guess Russia has always been a shitty country.

Eight hundred years is time enough to perfect it.

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.

"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.
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.

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