Still, old-school Russian prison tattoos are fascinating and interesting to look at.
Snake entwined with a woman - Indicates a passive homosexual, especially if tattooed on the back. Since the early years of the 20th-century prison tattoos in the Soviet Union indicate criminal career and rank. Russian criminal tattoos – in pictures Russian prisoners tattoos by Arkady Bronnikov / FUEL Photograph: Arkady Bronnikov// FUEL © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies.
No one really knows when the highly organized symbolic system or Russian prison tattoos first started.
During his time as a prison guard in Russia, and then later as the warden of the notorious Kresty Prison in Leningrad, Danzig Baldaev would become the curator and historian of tattoos worn by the convicts he watched over for nearly 40 years. By January 1941, the Gulag workforce had increased by approximately 300,000 prisoners. Additionally, a fashion for tattooing had spread through juvenile prisons, increasing the number of inmates with "illegitimate" tattoos.
Tattoos tell different stories in more than one way. Mar 15, 2020 - Explore Урош Папеш's board "Russian prison tattoos" on Pinterest. Looking at someone’s ink gives a good and detailed information about his crimes, but also a lot of background about their private life. As most prison tattoo codes around the world, Russian criminal tattoos were most likely enforced by strict gang guidelines. See more ideas about Criminal tattoo, Russian criminal tattoo and Russian prison tattoos. On the chin indicates a rat (.
Along with propaganda denouncing the "traditional thief" that had grown in popularity in Russian culture, punishments in the prisons intensified for anyone that identified as a legitimate thief, including beatings and torture. Playing Cards.
Suns – Rays can be used to indicate number and length of sentences served. [13] To reduce tensions, criminal leaders outlawed rites of passage and outlawed rape as a punishment.
Russian criminal tattoos became rather intricate works of art. According to lexicographer Alexei Plutser-Sarno, the tattoos become the only "real aspects of his life". Baldaev’s illustrations, 3,000 or so in all, have been…. The imagery often does not literally mean what it is depicting—for example, tattoos displaying Nazi imagery represent a rejection of authority rather than an adherence to Nazism. As a response to this persecution, the thieves' laws were intensified and the punishment for prisoners wearing unearned tattoos increased from removal to rape and murder.[12]. Brands were also applied to the shoulder blade and the right forearm, in three categories; "CK" for Ssylno-Katorzhny (hard labour convict), "SP" for Ssylno-Poselenets (hard labour deportee) and "Б" for Begly (escapee). Fights between inmates were outlawed and conflicts were to be resolved through mediation by senior thieves.
Not only do the symbols carry meaning but the area of the body on which they are placed may be meaningful too.
"Red" card suits, diamonds and hearts, on the back indicate a passive homosexual. The tattoos show a "service record" of achievements and failures, prison sentences and the type of work a criminal does. Even established thieves could be demoted, if, for example, they lost a card game and failed to honor their bets.
A heart indicates a despised thief with no status, convicted for rape. 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. [5] Tattoos served to differentiate between an authority or "thief in law", and the many hundreds of thousands of political prisoners who were imprisoned during and shortly after World War Two for crimes not considered those of a "Vor" (thief). Find and follow posts tagged skull on Tumblr. [1], Some of the motifs came from English sailor tattoos, such as the flying tall ships, a heart pierced by a dagger, anchors, a serpent-entwined heart or a tiger baring its teeth. Criminal tattoos have deep meaning for inmates but are also quite important as a street credibility mark within the Russian underground criminal and prison communities. The dagger piercing a heart was modified, adding an arrow: this tattoo indicated a legitimate thief and his desire to seek vengeance against those who had violated the thieves' code. Fri 23 Mar 2018 06.00 GMT [10], Tattoos were modified and new designs appeared to distinguish between the two groups. [7][8] Misappropriation of the tattoos of a "legitimate thief" could be punished by death, or the prisoner would be forced to remove them themselves "with a knife, sandpaper, a shard of glass or a lump of brick". [32], There are tattoos that are forcibly applied to signify "demotion" (razzhalovanie).
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