How a Russian ensign outwitted cunning Afghans from the market

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

One of the scams carried out by our warrant officers on the eve of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan can be classified as outstanding - both in design and execution. The story of the "Nursiks" for several years after the departure of the 40th Army excited the minds of Afghan traders who considered themselves the most intelligent and cunning.

A group of resourceful military men decided to sell on the domestic market useless plastic caps from unguided rockets of aviation ammunition.

The plastic cone, if desired, could only be used as a glass-pile, and then only by sticking it into the sand.

Nobody invented any other purpose for the cap.

In mid-January, the first group of talented swindlers worked, which scoured the dukans (shops) and asked the merchants if there were any "Nursiks" on sale by chance. When the traders tried to ask what it was, the phrase followed, "Ah, you still don't understand. A very necessary thing, though very expensive."

The merchants were curious about where such a wonderful product could be purchased. By the end of January, the first Nursiks appeared on the market.

The second group of swindlers sold them to the dukans, several boxes at a time. At the same time, their accomplices, who were scouring "in search of" Nursiks ", immediately bought them at the price inflated by the owners of the dukans. young people two KamAZ "deficit".

This was the end of the Nursik operation. Attempts by the Afghans to demand their money back from the Soviet embassy were futile.

They were simply told - "Not knowing the ford, do not go into the water."