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Russian Mafia Tattoos - The Brutal Truth |
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Most people associate Russian Mafia tattoos with David Cronenberg's award winning film "Eastern Promises" in which Viggo Mortensen portrayed an ex-con turned driver for a Russian Mafia Boss, who works his way up the chain of command only to find out there's even more corruption and deception than what he experienced within the prison walls.His story merely skims the surface...
In reality, the history behind Russia's criminal underground was spawned from a generation of men who, due to the economical collapse of the Soviet Union, were left with nothing - turning to crime for a means of survival. As communism fell and the safety net was removed, many of the desperate ended up in Russian prison camp system, also known as the Soviet gulag, which to this day is known as one of the most infamous and hellish prison systems in history. It was within these camps that a new breed of professional criminal was born. A criminal network based on discipline, tradition and more importantly, rank. |
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Indigenous Indians Of Brazil |
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Europeans first hit on the country in 1500 when the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral sailed into what is now Porto Seguro. It is unknown how many Indians were in the territory at the time, but estimates vary from 1 million through 10 million, speaking 1.300 different languages (according to some linguistic experts).When the first colonizers landed in Brazil lots of native Brazilians died of what are considered today as banal diseases such as flu, measles and pertussis (whooping cough). Other diseases took their toll too, like tuberculosis and smallpox, which eradicated entire aboriginal communities. |
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