Interview · moment 9 of 23
Misogyny and the Absence of an Afterlife in Vory Culture
from Russia's Super Mafia · #98
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2 minGuest
They discuss the particularly brutal treatment of women within Vory culture, tracing it to the lack of family-like structure and the harsh, godless prison-camp origins compared to Italian Mafia or Yakuza traditions.
- 18:54Tim notes the Vory are brutal murderers but operated according to a certain code.
- 19:17Tim asks whether Russian organized crime is uniquely misogynistic compared to the Mafia or Yakuza.
- 19:29Other criminal enterprises like the Italian Mafia or Yakuza maintain family-like structures that the Vory lacked.
- 19:51The Vory emerged as a political culture born in Russian prison camps under the worst conditions imaginable.
- 20:24Russian culture itself wasn't particularly progressive on gender issues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, compounding the Vory's brutality toward women.
VoryRussian prison campsMafiaYakuza