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Hungarian Counterfeit Francs: A Case of Post-World War I Political Sabotage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Andor Klay
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Stalin's little-known 1928 caper, the production and distribution of bogus hundred-dollar bills, was preceded by an even less known venture of the same sort. Specialists in East European history have left it unexplored during the decades which have passed since it occurred, and several aspects of the plot behind it, as well as some of its most powerful supporters, remain unknown. It happened in 1925, and involved a string of high-ranking Hungarian civilian and military personages, with a prince at one end and a bishop at the other.

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Slavic Review , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 107 - 113
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1974

References

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