Leader of the LDPR Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky spoke about staying in a Turkish prison in 1969, his words leads “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.
Zhirinovsky studied Turkish at the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University and went to Turkey for the construction of a sulfuric acid plant, which led the Soviet Union.
At that time, Soviet rubles could not be taken abroad, and Zhirinovsky at Sheremetyevo airport bought badges to spend three rubles having had.
“And in Turkey, you communicate with someone – I gave the icon. But always nearby, at the next table, I was sitting by the agent of the local KGB. They thought we were all spies and conduct a communist propaganda. That’s for these badges I was arrested”, – told politics.
The icons were depicted Aurora, sickle and hammer and the Kremlin towers. Zhirinovsky threated 20 years in prison, but the judge admitted that it was just souvenirs. By that time, the future leader of the LDPR speaking 17 days.