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He told me the story of my grandfather, who in the spring of 1945
He is returning from the war. I stop them train for a while in one of
European capitals. There was enough time to go through the station,
replenish stocks of fresh water and explore, so to speak, local
Attraction. Important group of our soldiers, which included
It was my grandfather, attracted scales, on which it was possible to determine the weight of
cargo. Then the scales were mechanical, and their work had
throw a coin in a special slot. Fallen coin unlocked
mechanism of weights and they showed the weight of the cargo. After the load was removed
the scales, mechanical scales again blocked until the next lowering
coin.

Russian soldiers was very interesting to find out your weight. One of
the soldier was so necessary for this coin. But in the group was 15
human. Then the soldiers acted very wisely. The first soldier threw
coin and stood on the scales. After determining the weight of him stood on the scales
The second soldier, and he went down with them. And so on. Thus were
I weighed all of 15 people. And from what he saw Aboriginal took aback.




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