alt Hacker NewsOf course there were gangsters in soviet times. Vory v zakone[0] in the 20s-30s, tsekhoviki[1] in the 60s-70s, with a brief period during and after WW2 where enough killed each other[2] not to be a major issue for a moment.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief_in_law
its kinda rich talking about Russian/Soviet crime in the 1990s, when in the US 1% of population is incarcerated (top-1 in the world), 19 mln have felony record, and 79 mln people or 1/3 of population have some sort of misdemeanor or past criminal record
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/directlyimpacted2025.htm...