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Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011


Can you post a full picture of the one on the next page from the bear we see here?

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Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

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?

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

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

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

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".

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

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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