Editing Vidkun Quisling (section)

===Russia and the rouble scandal===
[[File:No-nb bldsa 6d244.jpg|thumb|The Armenia commission of the League of Nations. 19 June 1925. From left, sitting, are C.E. Dupuis, [[Fridtjof Nansen]], and G. Carle; standing are Pio Le Savio, and Vidkun Quisling.]]
In June 1925, Nansen once again provided Quisling with employment. The pair began a tour of [[Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic|Armenia]], where they hoped to help repatriate Armenians, including those who survived the [[Armenian genocide]], via a number of projects proposed for funding by the [[League of Nations]]. Despite Quisling's substantial efforts, however, the projects were all rejected. In May 1926, Quisling found another job with long-time friend and fellow Norwegian [[Frederik Prytz]] in Moscow, working as a liaison between Prytz and the Soviet authorities who owned half of Prytz's firm, Onega Wood.<ref>{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|pp=59–62}}.</ref> He stayed in the job until Prytz prepared to close down the business in early 1927, when Quisling found new employment as a diplomat. British diplomatic affairs in Russia were being managed by Norway, and he became their new legation secretary; Maria joined him late in 1928. A massive scandal broke when Quisling and Prytz were accused of using diplomatic channels to smuggle millions of [[roubles]] onto the [[black market]]s, a much-repeated claim that was later used to support a charge of "[[moral bankruptcy]]," but neither it nor the charge that Quisling spied for the British has ever been substantiated.<ref>{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|pp=62–66}}.</ref>

The harder line now developing in Russian politics led Quisling to distance himself from Bolshevism. The Soviet government had rejected outright his Armenian proposals, and obstructed an attempt by Nansen to help with the 1928 Ukrainian famine. Quisling took these rebuffs as a personal insult; in 1929, with the British now keen to take back control of their own diplomatic affairs, he left Russia.<ref name="dahl67">{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|pp=67–69}}.</ref> He was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) for his services to Britain,<ref name="dahl67"/> an honour revoked by [[George VI of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] in 1940.<ref>{{cite news|title=People|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764097,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203143916/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764097,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2008|work=Time Magazine|page=1|date=24 June 1940|access-date=28 April 2011}}</ref> By this time, Quisling had also been awarded the [[Order of the Crown (Romania)|Romanian Crown Order]] and the Yugoslav [[Order of St. Sava]] for his earlier humanitarian efforts.<ref name="dahl67"/>