Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
And Russian foreign office employees sport their trappings, very similar to Nazi one. A coincidence?
http://nv.ua/world/countries/polzova...tej-96620.html
(It is in Russian, but the pictures speak for themselves).
It's a diplomatic uniform that goes back to the Soviet Union. That's why it's less ostentatious than say a Commonwealth one.
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