Demonised for living beyond the state borders of Eastern Europe. The Siberian urkas ancient and criminalised tradition's are on a clash with the ever shrinking modern world. Transported against their will from their Siberian homeland Nicolai Lilin is all too aware his time to uphold his ethnic t...
I myself came from a similar background as the author, born in a family of the people he calls ''blatnoy'', and I can tell that all of these rules and customs he writes about are true even if it's hard to believe for some people from western countries. But now the customs of ''blatnoy'' and siber...
Siberian Education is a memoir of a young criminal.Nikolaj grew up in Bender, Moldova, during the last years of the USSR and the first years after its collapse. That city featured several quarters run by criminal communities, the author's own being one consisting of Siberian expatriates, transpla...
. .’ Mama doesn’t know what we do on those mountains, she don’t know a thing about our troubles. The years of our youth are spent in the Caucasus, where there’s always war . . . The sound of bombs in the background, our brigade advances, over there you can already hear the shots. The sound of bom...
For example, from the day we ran through the rooms of a ruined building, firing at the enemy from such close range we could almost touch them with our hands. We were exhausted. The paratroopers worked in shifts, but we saboteurs hadn’t slept for three days. We went on like the waves of the sea, s...
