The grand and tragicomic story of Fred Lortz's sports cheating at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. There are plenty of high-profile stories of cheating in the history of the Olympic Games. After all, sometimes many people are so hungry for victory and glory that they are ready for the sake of it even to cheat and dishonest struggle. Such was the American Fred Lortz.

We've found America's most badass thug of the '30s. It's not Bonnie and Clyde or Johnny Dillinger or even “Ma Barker” and his douchebag sons. He's Lithuanian at all, and his parents were born in the Russian Empire.

Viktor Ivanovich began his journey to the high rank of the king of Soviet counterfeiters by dipping a nickel in ink and putting it to paper. It was in 1965. After reflecting on the resulting impression, he went to the regional library named after M.Y. Lermontov. M.Y. Lermontov, thinking to find there books on printing that interested him. Neither there, nor in second-hand stores, nor in conversations with employees of the printing house of the newspaper “Stavropol Pravda” secret knowledge of the mint Baranov, alas, did not acquire. And then Viktor Ivanovich took a vacation and flew to Moscow.