Thieves in Law. Born from Revolution

The Soviet Union has its own history of theft and banditry. And it's very good that the brothers of the "wild" nineties learned not from it, but merely from American gangster films. Russia in the nineties was very lucky that there were no "textbooks" and "guides" on racketeering of the civil war, contract killings of the NEP era, fraudulent schemes during industrialization and collectivization, and the techniques of robbery and pillage during the period of war communism. If such "scientific works" had existed, we would not be talking about the "wildness" and "holiness" of the nineties now. Most likely, there would be no one to talk to at all. It is no secret to anyone that any great revolutionary upheavals give rise to great banditism and theft and drown yesterday's revolutionaries first in the blood of the nation's people, and then in their own. We like to assert that modern revolutions occur without bloodshed. Perhaps. But blood is shed later, and every revolutionary should remember this before going to overthrow something. And if he does not know what he will do "after..." when "the whole world of violence is destroyed to its foundations," then it is better not to start. We recommend to today's and future revolutionaries simply to read this book and accept the fact that the Soviet Union had its own criminal history of struggle with itself and its own people, who became hostages of a terrible criminal ideology.