“We believed History had ended” Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian History,
The front page of the New York Times has been cut through with one of the Russian Criminal Tattoos collected by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev in the second half of the 20th century in Russia.
The tattoo on the surface is from the 1970s from an imprisoned Karachaevan male. The text reads “The Russians are a people of self-eaters, sacrificially, mindlessly, annihilating themselves and others and living nature”
The rear layer is also from the same New York Times front page and has been cut through with the widespread tattoo of “The Criminal Authority” worn from the 1950s onwards by the crime bosses. Since Vladimir Putin came to power there has been a merging between the KGB and the bosses (the Vory) of the Russian Criminal Underworld.
“In Russia every business man pays his tribute, every politician has is Krysha (roof), or protection, and the language of thieves has long since permeated the whole society” Alexei Plutser – Sarno.
