@ThatGuy-iz3vy
Yes, do ALL the different criminal organizations, you could make it a mini-series 👍
@alexvarney3683
I would love a whole mini-series on the various organized crime groups of the world, and how they each operate differently
@ProbablyNotLegit
Albanian mafia would be interesting, from the underdogs after the Yugoslav Wars to one of the most prolific OCGs on the planet even by 2001
@cobrastancult3241
Im a Russian myself, and your story is 100% accurate. Thank you, you're doing very good work.
@SuperKendoman
Great stuff, Simon. Do one on the triads of Hong Kong. What once was a revolutionary group formed to overthrow the Manchus, eventually became a criminal organisation
@van3158
Awesome! This would make an amazing series covering international organized crime.
@DutchieDingo
Absolutely would love a series about international crime syndicates. Also one covering the Djorde Martinović incident
@khallkhall7237
I've been reading and watching everything I could get my hands on about the vor for 20+ years and this is the best summary of history and culture I've ever seen.
@ismarwinkelman5648
The Russian Mafia : Private Protection in a New Market Economy by Federico Varese is an excellent book on the subject 😎👌
@alexandergausJTP
Well- almost everyone heard about Yakuza or the Italian mob, but THIS was genuinely new to me and, as always, a near perfect written and delivered piece! 👍
@ringlhach
It's fair to say at this point that Prigozhin came out second-best in everything with Putin. Assuming he hasn't pulled a Houdini on absolutely everyone, which I kind of doubt.
@CurtisUI
Lol, my brother met some of those guys in Detroit. He was winning a lot at a casino and the guys with Russian accents asked if he wanted to play for higher stakes. He took them for about 7k and was only allowed to leave as long as he came back. Yeah he never went back and moved far away 🤦🏻♂️
@DearDaria
Vor is a regular supermarket thief, what you mean under serious business Vor is “vor v zakone” (thief-in-law). Bratva are thugs, and what you mean is called “krysha”
@grim.hustle
Thieves love is eternal. Be honorable.
@Stellarheim
General. But uncannily precise description of the part of the russian history. Have not found any mistakes. And yet, it is a good reminder of how one of the darkest and most corrupt threads came to be on the russian carpet of fate.
@mr.zeitmaschine6878
Growing up in the USSR I was pretty exposed to this life. I knew thieves-in-laws, some from my neighborhood. I didn’t know them by name. I knew them personally. Some would think hearing all the stories that these were some real thugs but if you spent an hour with them, you’d think they were professors at the Moscows Lomonosov University. The idea and the name sounds very intimidating and dark, but in reality these were very well read, well dressed, mostly soft spoken people that would play chess with you and discuss life. Only the value system in the bratva had a very high moral code. A kind of life and moral 95% westerners could never live under or with. Most known thief-in-laws, in the USSR vor v zakone, were Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Chechens, Russians of course and some Jews. Almost all of them knew each other in the entire USSR. Most of the time they were better judges than the real judges so the regular people mostly left the affairs between themselves and to the thieves to decide. The whole thing really started with Stalin. He needed them and he himself lived with the code. Stalin was something else. The first thieve in law in the USSR was an Armenian name Kamo from Tbilisi in Georgia which really was a very Armenian populated city which is where my grandfather was from. Kamo was killed in a car accident. Some say Stalin was present in his Coronation. It was an interesting country and a system. We lived with high moral codes and discipline. To be honest, I miss it a lot. I’ve lived in the US now for decades. This is not freedom. This is a strange place with no codes, no loyalty, no honor. People shock me every day with their behavior and I will never get used to it. I guess you will take a man out of a USSR but you will never take USSR out of a man.
@ignitionfrn2223
0:13 - Noice quote To walk with purpose is to survive & perhaps even to thrive
@luyandzabavukiledlamini4693
I would love to see more videos on different criminal organizations around the world Here in South Africa the main and most powerful criminal organization are the taxi unions who constantly fight for control of lucrative transport routes often leading to bloody battles
@jamesdavidson1965
Would love to see more series on this channel so you could watch a playlist ordered chronologically of a different subjects and get more into subjects like criminal enterprises, conspiracy theories, different wars
@tvoyamama