As they both knew, when the Russian army took Berlin, they removed anything that wasn’t nailed down and sent it back to the Soviet Union. This included everything from everyday objects, which admittedly were hard to find in the Soviet Union, to art treasures. There were stories of vaults in Russia filled with famous paintings, of mines stuffed with antiquities, of packing cases of priceless porcelain stored in the cellars of drab official buildings.
Greed as always
