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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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A little bit of advice
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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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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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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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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If you ever actually end up in a Russian prison and get called out on the tattoo this may be a terrible choice. I figure getting a really braggadocios Russian criminal tattoo that says I'm a legitimate thief convicted of murdering multiple party officials is just the kind of thing I need to keep me on the straight and narrow and out of Russian prisons.
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