So I was surprised to read about the following bootleg scam in The Baltic Times;
Yet another operation in which criminals have been pumping bootleg alcohol from Russia into Estonia through a hose underneath the Narva River was discovered and shut down on Nov. 12. The Estonian Border Guard said that Russian customs workers in Ivangorod caught a local man red-handed pumping hundreds of liters of alcohol through the hose. The incident is at least the fourth such operation to be shut down since 2004.
Just Imagine if you stumbled across that hose sticking out of the ground. It'd be a great party, till the smuggler found you and your corpse wound up at the bottom of the Narva river!
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I just read a blog where a man from Finland doesn’t mind traveling to Estonia to get his Alcohol. Estonia’s success comes from the economic freedom allowed to their business. And low taxes provides employers with an incentive to sell alcohol. The bootleggers are trying to take advantage. Estonia has come a long way considering less than 20 years ago they were under Russian control. The Singing Revolution resulted in Estonia gaining their freedom. (There is a great Documentary about Estonia's Singing Revolution: http://singingrevolution.com) It’s an emotional insight to the revolution.
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