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Was compensation demanded from the USSR for damage caused here, to farming in N Wales for example?
Or was it not legally possible or unrealistic?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.At least �13m has been paid out in compensation to British farmers, not from the USSR though. I also understand that the farmers need to obtain a licence every time they want to move their sheep and call in Government inspectors to scan each animal before it can be sold. They are paid �1.30 compensation for each sheep scanned, the same as in 1986 - but again this is from our own Govmt.
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I appreciate the pracftical considerations of poverty and so on, but legally, Governments are usually unconcerned with 'life and hard times'. They want satisfaction - even if it's is impossible in practise, at least initially.
Take the Corfu Channel incident, where the British government held out for compensation from a dead-beat country for many years, (settling, if memory serves) by deducting a smaller amount from Albania's gold which we held, before it was given back, many years after the submarine's sinking.
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