Prisoner tattoos, their symbolism and deceptive rhetoric: which drawings do you choose? (Part I) Life



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When the serious bathers left, we were already calmly awake and we are “serious” athletes. Very interesting characters got there. Our slightly older friend, who was “in trouble,” kept telling me that this is speculating in the records, Boney M and ABBA and even the Beatles political album “Back to the USSR” can be bought, and he’s sitting behind from politics – cut out a drunken portrait of Brezhnev at school, and after that he also sprinkled eggs and took away the striped wizard.

When he returned from zones, he was already 23 years old. For us, it was almost old. And lo and behold, as we beat the heat, the door opens and that man appears to be withered. Before I could get in, the three of them stood up, leaving a place in the top bunk where the heat was best, and pressed us fully against the wall at the bottom.

First I saw a large ornate cross on my back and a naked woman on my right shoulder.

The whole body of that old man was tattooed. I saw something like this in a movie about Japanese many years later. yakudas. First I saw a large ornate cross on my back and a naked woman on my right shoulder. Her funny breasts in the men’s sauna looked really spicy. That silence of a few seconds was really special. But the area psychologist quickly stopped her by dropping something. go downto which everyone hastened to respond appropriately.

The friend also respectfully nodded, but only after leaving the sauna did he dare to tell us what authority we were honored to see. After that authority silently sipped someone’s suggested beer, I stole their tattoos. Some were quite minimalist geometric shapes, but others were very naturalistic, and I thought about how painful it had to be and how cool it was. I didn’t pay attention to them then, and now, after looking at the meaning of the tattoo symbols in the area, it became clear that they were the decorations that conveyed the most important information.

It turned out that they were the decorations that convey the most important information.

So what is a tattoo for us? Declaration of status? Jewelry? Erotica? Protection from evil? Hide complexes? Declaring ideas? Whatever it is, offending a tattoo is a serious and ultimately painful step. Although these are much easier to remove these days than twenty years ago, psychologically, a person is still tattooed for life.

Nothing if the tattoo is a romantic heart for a loved one hanging somewhere on the back, but if it is on the back, leg, shoulder and neck and even on the face, it is already a statement. Remember how you started judging a person by his tattoo: “This one with a huge dragon is a real marozas“,” That poor banal man with a dolphin, “and” one with a barcode tattooed on his shoulder is good here. “

He wants not to want a drawing on the skin to speak for us. Astrologers and mystics of various convictions argue that tattoos affect the destiny of a personality, can protect or, conversely, cause disgrace if you freak out without knowing what a satanic symbol is. Serious things when you think. Even if you really don’t believe.

Japanese “medical cucumbers”, tattooed with various crooked drawings, really look threatening. I’ll hardly find a martial arts representative who doesn’t have at least one tattoo. And criminals especially like to mark the direction in which they specialize: thieves decorate a sign, murderers, others, plaintiffs, roosters or rapists are forced to attach other signs of exclusion, so that no one will confuse them. and don’t give what lowness Do not sit at your desk.

In general, the visible customs, rules, and accents of exclusion in closed communities, including tattoos, are a very interesting phenomenon. The hierarchy occupies a very important place in the lives of prisoners. And this is explained very easily. Reach not only legal restrictions, but even stricter and incomparably more cruel rules zek elite.

Life there, especially if you go to prison not in Sweden, where Lithuanian criminals don’t even want to go, but in Pravieniškės or in northern Russia, is based on a strict hierarchy. And those vierchai – the nobility of the area – determines how one prepares, what and with whom to eat, where to sleep and with whom, how to work or not, and in extreme cases also determines life. Lack of something to do, natural sadism, and the beastly rules of survival, mixed with the untapped opportunities of normal life, also gave rise to a very specific, as I would say, redman-naturalist art.

Or perhaps, so as not to offend the great Sakartvelian artist, let’s call that art ecclesiastical primitivism, one that breathes educated people, but those who have more complex forms enjoy it, there are already excessive searches.

In prison, naturalistic roses carved into the smallest detail appeared, where one could not even understand how long and patience it took for a teacher to reach that level. But by imagining that you have folded some people and are now sitting for the fourth time and you have fifteen more years left, that mastery becomes easier to understand.

The chess, which demonstrates an incredible level of carvings, knife handles with various characters under transparent plastic, such as secretions deposited in the sand as a child, and many other wonders created with the same hands that have just been stolen, murdered, or raped. This proves once again that the beginning of creation is in everyone, only here the circumstances in which it manifests are very different.

Well and of course tattoos. One for all to see: on the hands, neck, shoulders, wrist. Others on their backs, legs and even in very intimate places. In the area, they certainly aren’t just cosmetic decorations. It’s like shoulder pads or orders and medals in the military. They can indicate the situation, the nature of the crime, the years passed, the sexual orientation, the number of convictions. Meeting in the real sauna zeką can learn a lot

Just be careful not to touch too much, especially if you see the geometric shapes already mentioned in full. Although, of course, there are no less heavily ornamented tattoos with a religious theme, from the numerous domes of the churches with natural tattoos to the Crucifixion with all the participants of the Last Supper.

And let’s not forget the abbreviations that already clearly express the prisoner’s worldview.

Russian prisoners, for example, were often true dissidents, and the Soviets really did not like online soldier-politicians any more. Let’s say the tattooed letters “AGG” in Lithuanian would mean Adolf Hitler, my friend. As you can see, they really didn’t lack courage, because with such a tattoo, a feather is guaranteed more often than with a friend Stalin. Or another acronym “DERPN” – “fly, p * su and I’ll cut supporters. “Not bad reinforcement.

Let’s say that the tattooed letters “АГМД” in Lithuanian would mean Adolf Hitler, my friend.

Since the opinions expressed in this way are not very obscure. And for our “official” freedom and prosperity fighters to tattoo their views so recklessly, it would be much harder to be hypocritical.

Tattoos can be very misleading and even cruelly humorous. For example, a naked woman tied to a cross under which a bonfire is burned means that a man has killed an unfaithful woman, and the amount of firewood means how many years she has received. And the eyes, tattooed on the buttocks, mean this zekas it belongs to the lowest castes. О going octagonal star under the shoulder means that this prisoner is an authority. You don’t even need anyone to see your range, and this is how you will understand …

A separate story – tattoo “shoulders”. Only the exclusive authorities that have won this raffle after any act have the right to issue them.

Details in the next section about prisoner tattoos.



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