2023-12-10 15:51:15
Without asking the youth, adults argue regarding the series “The Boy’s Word.” It’s more important to talk to schoolchildren: “I’ll tell you, guys, for Kazan, how its cruelty lost.”
My acquaintances and friends from Kazan, who went through those street gangs in the 80s, answer my question regarding the really main TV series for Russia, “The Boy’s Word”: “That’s it.” So they show us documentaries.
I won’t touch the content or dramaturgy. Of course, we are not talking regarding authoritative shouts – “whistle and don’t let in.” Why cinema appealed so much to active youth is a bigger question than the problem – why exactly Kazan created a phenomenon that is so categorically different from the stereotype of behavior of a typical Soviet street punk. It would be necessary to get to the answer from the finale.
The groupers in Kazan didn’t just fight—out of the blue, they irrationally divided the asphalt of their habitat areas. They were ready to kill and did kill.
In the Soviet Union, many people lived with a faience pig piggy bank, such as that of “Coward” (Vitsin) in “Operation “Y””. In Kazan, a “piggy bank” was the name given to a boy’s broken skull, which was smeared with an iron rod. My friend recalls: “Before one raid on the neighbors, the elder gives us a battle plan: “Two intensive care units, one morgue.” Nothing like this had ever been heard in other cities.
The overwhelming majority of fathers who today are raising people over 18+ in one way or another spent their youth in a much more aggressive environment compared to the current one. This is neither good nor bad. There is just such a thing – time. Narrowing down their past, they fought often.
I’ll randomly throw it out: in the 70s, the director Meskhiev always fought for the caudla of the 48th building on Sredny Prospekt on Vasilyevsky Island, the former chief of police of St. Petersburg, General Vlasov, fought for Svetlanovsky Prospekt, the governor of the Leningrad region Drozdenko fought at the skating rink (and does not hide it), but the author fought with the Petrogradskys beyond the Gavan. But they didn’t even take a bottle of beer to fights, so as not to injure themselves in the excitement. This is how the whole country lived. In Kazan, death was cultivated.
The groupers of Kazan were paramilitary detachments. Solid vertical, hierarchy, discipline. They even buttoned the top button of their shirt, like soldiers in the army. For the most part, not being athletes, they practiced a style without smoking or drinking alcohol. Sparta.
But everything around was not going well. Then the street social elevator formed the chaotic behavior of the pack. Thus, on Vasilievsky Island the punks were divided into “Havansky”, “prospect” (Bolshoy Prospekt), and “linear” (island lines). The eldest were increasingly those who had served prison terms; the tongue greedily absorbed not obscenities, but jargon; they tried to dress with force: caps, bell-bottoms; habits were imposed by waddling – whistling with two fingers, spitting through the tooth. An atmosphere of freedom.
When the 90s broke out, it was not the bastards who crushed the street, but the athletes. Those who were taught to defend their interests “here and now”, but still they were a product of the Soviet system – the original bloodthirstiness was not brought up. (The Brotherhood turned into demons by the mid-90s). So by the 90s, the cruel spirit of the Kazan phenomenon had a powerful competitive advantage over the rest of the gang.
In addition, the criminal clans of Kazan sent their flying squads to all major cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg… And it seemed like they were supposed to hit new lands.
Yes, at first the Kazan team shook the consciousness of the athletes with their skill of going to the end in conflicts. Their “car” had no reverse gear. Soon the fascination with them wore off. Everyone realized how uncontrollable they were. Moreover, the local gang knew each other one way or another – who lived where, who trained where, and the Kazan gang ran in, hid, and went around the cities. They were at least avoided, at most they were beaten proactively.
Then the Kazan people were overwhelmed with typical teenage reflection. When parents keep a tight rein on their daughter, she has only one dream – to get married when she comes of age and run away from home. So it is with them: they were punished in groups for so long for smoking a cigarette that when the bourgeois freemen attacked, they dived into all the mud that surfaced. First of all, into drugs.
Let’s say that the Kazan gangster Renat Rougier, famous in St. Petersburg, protected Tatneft gas stations and the scale of the business allowed him to launch into space. But the drinking bouts, prostitutes and carousing at the “Pribaltiyskaya” hotel ended in a cemetery.
From the fundamental: no matter what bandits there were, they were regarding gold. Almost everyone understood that the richer their businessmen, the thicker their wallets. After all, during the fall of state power, they collected taxes. The Kazan people, as they teach in school, led a primitive life – they were only engaged in hunting: they took an entrepreneur under their roof, tore his business into pieces, drank everything on drink and attacked the next one.
Finally, the Kazan people loved destroying each other more than anything else. Since they were constantly fighting in Kazan from the late 60s, they did not stop it in the 90s. And if in Kazan the “vein” began to shed the blood of “Hadi Taktash”, then a corresponding order was sent to all cities where representatives of these “families” were already working. In Moscow and St. Petersburg they did not understand why the Kazan people were committing suicide. But they took it with great satisfaction…
Dear children, today adults and the authorities are afraid that you have fallen in love with “The Boy’s Word” and want to play it. It’s not that you’re not ready. Even Kazan cruelty lost miserably to time.
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