![]() ![]() Soviet police officer, 1991, quoted in The Vory by Mark Galeotti The best part of this Yale published and well researched book is the history of how the Russian mafia developed in parallel with the Soviet Union and Russia and changed and adapted to fit the new rea "If Lenin had shot more criminals and hired fewer, we might have seen a very different Soviet Union." "If Lenin had shot more criminals and hired fewer, we might have seen a very different Soviet Union." - Soviet police officer, 1991, quoted in The Vory by Mark Galeotti "Not everyone who carries a knife is a cook." - Russian proverb A nice survey and history of the Vory V Zakone "thief within the code". "Not everyone who carries a knife is a cook."Ī nice survey and history of the Vory V Zakone "thief within the code". The best part of this Yale published and well researched book is the history of how the Russian mafia developed in parallel with the Soviet Union and Russia and changed and adapted to fit the new realities. I also enjoyed the sections that dealt with the language, rituals, and tattoos of the Vory. ![]() The book loses a bit of velocity as it tries to describe the different facets of the Russian organized crime's ecosystem (Georgian, Chechen, street vor to vor-broker). But still, these sections were necessary to understand that the Russian organized crime has multiple models of control, multiple levels of partnership, etc. It is difficult to even (from both epistemological and ontological perspective) understand exactly what controlled by organized crime means in Russia. ![]()
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