Russian criminal tattoos
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russian-criminal-tattoos-170-2389152
title:
Russian criminal tattoos
text:
During the 20th century in the Soviet Union, Russian criminal and prison communities maintained a culture of using tattoos to indicate members' criminal career and ranking. Specifically among those imprisoned under the Gulag system of the Soviet era, the tattoos served to differentiate a criminal leader or thief in law from a political prisoner. The practice grew in the 1930s, peaking in the 1950s and declining in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Tattoo culture
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_criminal_tattoos
date created:
2015-04-14T14:44:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T23:32:10Z
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13
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