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Symbols of a life of crime: Russia Gangland Tattoos
They are the fading symbols of a life dedicated to bloodshed, violence and the unspoken moral code of Russia’s criminal underworld.
But far from a motley collection of meaningless drawings and letters, each tattoo has its own meaning and, to those who know, can be read like a curriculum vitae of the bearer’s gangland past.
These haunting images were taken in the early 1990s by photographer Sergei Vasiliev after he gained access to some of Russia’s toughest prisons at the peak of the gang wars that followed the break up of the Soviet Union.
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