I've been sidetracked reading about why the Russians are into poisoning people. Some of it seems to go back to SMERSH which as well as being James Bond's nemesis was a real organisation set up by Stalin as "an organised “liquidation” programme intended to eliminate Stalin’s opponents" as well as Nazi collaborators.
After the war it continued under different names and for example:
>One failed attempt was on the life of Lisa Stein, a radio broadcaster in West Germany who in March 1955 only narrowly survived a dose of the lethal toxin scopolamine concealed in a box of chocolates
After the war it continued under different names and for example:
>One failed attempt was on the life of Lisa Stein, a radio broadcaster in West Germany who in March 1955 only narrowly survived a dose of the lethal toxin scopolamine concealed in a box of chocolates
And I guess maybe the tradition continues. https://www.thearticle.com/the-kremlins-long-reach