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a true patriot would do anything for the Motherland - "A KGB rectal concealment capsule" https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2021/feb/10/relics...

The starting price looks to be $400 or $450. A total opposite to glorious missile cars and laser watches of Bond. A kind of illustration of a typical contrast between reality of a given profession and it's portrayal in movies, etc.

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Unless they are Enemas of The People.

Escape from жопаb!

The CIA has the infamous escape toolkit: https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-c...

Which is similar, but is designed for tools

needs a banana for scale…

And it's knurled. Those freaky Soviets.

It's in "papillon". Used in prisons worldwide

What a movie, I chose it randomly on an airplane, without ever hearing about it, and I think at the beginning I was thinking about switching to something else but I didn't and then I couldn't... took me by surprise how much I liked it. I don't know why, it's the first time I'm seeing it mentioned on the internet and I had to make a comment.

The original french work was translated into English by .. the author of "master and commander" Patrick O'Brian

The film has a stellar cast. Its a good adaptation of the underlying story. Its grounded in ugly truths. Its a classic redemption story. The book was a worldwide best seller phenomenon and that gave the movie makers swing to get budget.

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