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Hi, I've never seen this series of books mentioned here but I figure GBS could help me decide which Russian Criminal Tattoo to get before the summer starts and I am expected to take off my top. There are three books in the series and they are published by a company called Fuel, not to be confused with the band Fuel. The illustrator is Siberian and is named Danzig but he is not Glenn Danzig of Portlandia fame. I think and he originally sketched the tattoos he saw as a hobby, in secret and then the KGB found out and instead of being mad like he expected, they asked him to continue catalogue the tattoos and decipher the meaning behind them. I think this stuff is pretty interesting. He also has a book that's basically illustrations of things describe in The Gulag Archipelago and, um, there's a lot of brutal drawings in that book. Here's a bear
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here is another bear
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Apr 24, 2021 04:40
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The Moscow Kosomol Whores Gang
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Apr 24, 2021 04:42
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another polar bear picture please
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Apr 24, 2021 04:42
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A little bit of advice
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Apr 24, 2021 04:44
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The Vor V Zakone tattoos are pretty crazy
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Apr 24, 2021 04:44
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Uncle Joe
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Apr 24, 2021 04:45
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I think the number of domes in depictions of churches usually references terms served or something like that.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:47
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This one indicates a squealer and would have been forcibly applied.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:48
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i got one of these as my only tattoo even though im not russian.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:49
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Cats represent legitimate thieves. This would have been on a married person whose partner was also a criminal by trade. I think it is romantic.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:49
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If you can't do the gulag don't.. steal the.. yule log?
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Apr 24, 2021 04:50
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Sorry to doxx yr mom but someone in the gulag has a tattoo of her
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Apr 24, 2021 04:54
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Brezhnev with a funky new doo
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Apr 24, 2021 04:56
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BIG TIT LIL NIP posted:i got one of these as my only tattoo even though im not russian. Really? What is it? Right now I only have plus and minus on both sides of my wrists stigmata style but I got a new second job and will have disposable income for the first time in 3 years soon so I want to get something cool but not horribly outlandish. I am not Russian.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:58
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Maybe you can add a few cool Japanese words too, they make you look so cool and worldly.
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Apr 24, 2021 06:27
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kntfkr posted:Cats represent legitimate thieves. This would have been on a married person whose partner was also a criminal by trade. I think it is romantic. that's awesome
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Apr 24, 2021 06:32
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kntfkr posted:Really? What is it? Right now I only have plus and minus on both sides of my wrists stigmata style but I got a new second job and will have disposable income for the first time in 3 years soon so I want to get something cool but not horribly outlandish. I am not Russian. A goatse around your navel or butthole
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Apr 24, 2021 06:51
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kntfkr posted:Hi, I've never seen this series of books mentioned here but I figure GBS could help me decide which Russian Criminal Tattoo to get before the summer starts and I am expected to take off my top. There are three books in the series and they are published by a company called Fuel, not to be confused with the band Fuel. I have those! Gutter Phoenix posted:
Not sure which one you should get tattoed, op. Why not all of them?
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Apr 24, 2021 08:07
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I find this a fascinating subject, OP. I hope this thread goes places. Also, If you haven't seen it watch Eastern Promises. The evolution of a russian gangster:    
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Apr 24, 2021 09:49
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I found a treasure trove of stuff right here: http://fuel-design.com/russian-criminal-tattoo-archive/drawings/drawing-1/ Many of the images aren't just NSFW but quite explicit.
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Apr 24, 2021 11:06
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Dang I didn’t know there were 3 of those I got the original one when it came out, still have it. Get some sick rear end vory v zakone tats and show them off to all the Russians you meet!
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Apr 24, 2021 11:11
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iirc there's a pretty cool one of a tiger brandishing a pistol that I would consider getting, if I wasn't worried about getting stabbed outside a kebab shop
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Apr 24, 2021 11:20
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STABASS posted:iirc there's a pretty cool one of a tiger brandishing a pistol that I would consider getting, if I wasn't worried about getting stabbed outside a kebab shop Username/post combo. The Mark of Cain is available on Youtube, in case anyone hasn't seen it.
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Apr 24, 2021 11:37
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Can you post a full picture of the one on the next page from the bear we see here?
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Apr 24, 2021 11:55
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kntfkr posted:He also has a book that's basically illustrations of things describe in The Gulag Archipelago and, um, there's a lot of brutal drawings in that book. Oh yeah! I remember that thread, that's the one that shows in graphic detail what daily life was like in one of those camps right? Specifically one where much of the day-to-day management was left in the hands of the criminal gangs. Anyone have a link to pictures from that one?
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Apr 24, 2021 11:59
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I'm pretty sure this is my favorite.  "The Scary Dicks of the Land of Fools" on the dicks "Everything for the People". edit: You know. I think spending much of your life in prison fucks with your head. Descriptions copied from the link to the archive posted further above.  left shoulder: Sweet freedom Made in the USSR [sign of the State Quality Mark] center: God save [me]! right shoulder: Man is wolf to man left arm: Ust Kut [town in Irkutsk] left forearm: Gentlemen Communist-Satanists, drat you for my hungry childhood! right arm: LOM acronym meaning 'I love brave men'. right forearm: My favorite idol: Adolf Ivanovich Hitler under left breast: The CPSU has always thought using its shitter center star: I am a slave of the MVD below: Decree of PVS [Polyvinyl Alchol, Ethanol] from 04.06.1947 'Tayshetlag' under belly button: Ah, thank you Gorbachev and Raisa personally - we've stopped pissing and making GBS threads in the zone, we feel great! above genitals: I need the KPSS like my c*** needs an alarm clock hips: USSR / Russia land of slaves Country of fools and morons the fleecing parasites of the Committee, forgotten by God Randarkman fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Apr 24, 2021 12:02
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kntfkr posted:Sorry to doxx yr mom but someone in the gulag has a tattoo of her drat, I guess it's finally time to get my first tattoo. I don't know what it means but look at those rockin' tits
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Apr 24, 2021 13:00
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Smugworth posted:drat, I guess it's finally time to get my first tattoo. I don't know what it means but look at those rockin' tits Website says it's the tattoo of a "passive homosexual".
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Apr 24, 2021 13:03
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what the heck man 
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Apr 24, 2021 13:07
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I gather all the prisoners were capitalists and subsequently deserved their terms
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Apr 24, 2021 19:37
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Don't you know, people imprisoned for long terms always have the right opinion on the government. That's why I always go to the Aryan brotherhood for my political opinions 
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Apr 24, 2021 19:43
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That link to the publisher's website with some of the pictures from the book actually mentions in alot of cases who had the tattoo and what they know about that person's history (though often enough you're looking just at records, because these tattoos were recorded at the morgue when the person died). Alot of repeat offenders, many had been in juvenile institutions before going into correctional labor (many of these seem to be from the gulags and there's a connection to that earlier series mentioned that the author did of "pictures from the gulags"), many were arrested for homelessness (particularly the women), several were the children of people who had been in the gulags or were executed during the 30s and 40s. If you weren't a hardened criminal before you entered the prison system you would probably become one (not unlike many other prison systems), a common refrain seems to be "only death/a bullet will reform me". Randarkman fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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Apr 24, 2021 22:32
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Randarkman posted:That link to the publisher's website with some of the pictures from the book actually mentions in alot of cases who had the tattoo and what they know about that person's history (though often enough you're looking just at records, because these tattoos were recorded at the morgue when the person died). It's cool stuff, it was one of the worst most vicious police states in history, so there was a whole hidden criminal culture from the people the police had criminalized.
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Apr 24, 2021 23:08
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Get that entire image done as a backpiece
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Apr 24, 2021 23:56
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kntfkr posted:Brezhnev with a funky new doo This is just a Shadowrun character.
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Apr 26, 2021 05:20
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These tattoos are cool as gently caress but I bet they’d be impressed by my naruto tat in those prisons
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Apr 26, 2021 05:36
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Do it ironically posted:These tattoos are cool as gently caress but I bet they’d be impressed by my naruto tat in those prisons Some of them appear to be anime "otaku," aka fans, such as this young woman: 
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Apr 26, 2021 05:39
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Ah I see she’s a woman of culture as well
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Will anime know no bounds
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