random - 2-14-2009 at 10:12 AM
I'm a bit surprised at so many people having the same Lenin tattoo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByh1xZX1_Q
Discipline - 2-14-2009 at 02:27 PM
After seeing Eastern Promises I've really been wanting to find a good book or documentary on Russian mob tattoo's and their meanings.
random - 2-14-2009 at 08:33 PM
From that youtube video I posted, there should be links in the "similar videos" in youtube to an 8-part documentary on Russian prison tats. I watched
it after posting the other video. It was pretty interesting. Not quite Russian mob, but still good.
morgan - 2-14-2009 at 08:46 PM
If I remember right people would get a tattoo of Lenin over there heart so when they were executed, by gunshot, the shooter wouldn't shoot them
through the heart, giving them a chance at living through it.
random - 2-14-2009 at 08:51 PM
Yeah, they say something like that in the documentary I mentioned in the second post. Firing squad wouldn't shoot at the leader of the USSR, so that
was the reason. Later added Stalin to the group, but the original was Lenin, Marx, and Engels.
jonnynewbreed - 2-15-2009 at 09:16 AM
the doc was really good. I suggest watching all 8 parts. You think you're tough until you hear from these guys.