[GUIDE] Georgian subculture (Thieves in law)

Started by Bonez,

SadSisyphus (Member) ·

Make sure you read the previous guide about roleplaying a Georgian. 

Georgian subculture and thieves in law, that's what 80% of Georgian regular streak of males were following in 1990s.
Subculture is coming from the post-soviet Russian prisons and the main object was to make everything under control in the prisons, but soon the prisoners made their own rules about controling the prison, after some of them got released, we faced the so called Russian Mafia which includes Georgians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Jewish-Russians, Azerbaijanians, Chechnyans and Ossetians.
After the fall of soviet union, the thief in law subject came more popular and it was like 70s La Cosa Nostra in post-soviet countries, but the strongest thieves in 90s were from Georgia, if you check out the primecrime.ru or any kind of leadership of socalled Russian Mafia, you gonna see that three from five are Georgians, that's how the subculture came too far in Georgian regions, but that was not all about the prisons already, the street mentality has included the same structure like in the prisons, which caused a lots of bloodleaks, fights, shootouts and what not. 

Tbilisi was most known capital as Kutaisi for the thieves in law, thieves in law from Tbilisi were taxing the Casinos, Restaurants and local businesses in Moscow which is thousend of miles away from Georgia. Thieves were against the drugdealers in 90s, they always hated the people who were dealing with the drugs, Georgians hate the drugdealers and if a Georgian is dealing a drug, he's surely being taxed by the thieves and also being treated like nobody, if you are a cop in Georgia, a lots of people hate you, but if you are a drugdealer, more people hate you and treat you like nobody, also the drug dealers in Georgia are knowen as "Bitches/Snitches" and if someone has a name like that, nobody respects him and is mostly getting beaten up, subculture has a lots of different sides and rules, nobody likes the lie, if you lie to people, you gonna get what you deserve, you must be brave, tough and right to reach the top. That's how most of these people like Aslan Usoyan and the others are in the top. That's why Vyacheslav Ivankov got killed, he was protecting a massive drug-deals in USA and once he got back in Russia, he got shot for saying he was still a thief, but there are still a lots of versions of Little Japanesse's death.

But let's get back to the main subject, Georgian people are still dealing with a lots of things and taking care of each other with the subcultural rules, including the thief in law metality, questions and lifestyle. In 2015, there are hundreds of sighting of subcultural fights and wranglings in Georgia. 

So, I wanted to say with this guide, Georgian Mafia doesn't exists, nor the Organized Crime Group, they are always a group of a few men, leading a convoy to the top, but a lots of people in this server and in the world would think that massive drug dealing out in the USA or Europe is going on by the Georgians, that's not how it works, the main resource of making money as a Georgian immigrant in the neighbor countries, USA or Europe is robbing the houses, stealing from the stores, extorting businesses and faking the documents. Over these low-profile crimes, Georgian so called "Mafia" damages Europe with almost the billion euros a year.

Credits to Toko Chivadze

BurgundySuit (Premium Member) ·

This is a very nice guide to look into, thanks!

Nemo (Member) ·

Drug Dealers snitches / bitches xD Very well done. Sagol dzmao