Частный детектив CБ Москва said:
Vadim, what language did you speak with him?
Once in our provincial city S. the director of the criminal police of the federal state of West Baden, in Germany, came with his handy. Colleagues were interested in how we were able to return "where they got" the German citizen, Mr. Hans F., for whom the kidnappers demanded a million euros. In the spirit of opera jokes, the Germans decided to meet in a drawer "for repair", in which there were no tables, only Soviet chairs of the 50s, and the walls with half-tattered wallpaper were smeared with printing ink from the fingerprinted hands of the detainees and the blood of one of them, who once left for a moment alone, tore his nose and smeared everything around, thus wanting to frighten the police with a forthcoming complaint to the prosecutor’s office, backed up by such undeniable evidence ...
The whole conversation the Germans held on, as if not noticing the "somewhat unusual" for themselves surroundings. An employee of Interpol, who is also a translator, was clearly embarrassed, but also tried to keep up. When, at the end of the conversation, the Germans were asked in passing to not pay attention to our working conditions, the eldest of them calmly answered with a phrase that I still remember: "Police officers from different countries understand each other!"
Apparently, Vadik talked so much with a colleague as Kuzmich with a Finn in a well-known movie ...)))