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Becoming the Chechen Mafia: Ancient Outlaws, Soviet Scabs and a British KGB Plot

2023/9/12

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Sean Williams: 本集讲述了车臣黑手党从古代到现代的演变过程，从古代的阿布雷克（流亡强盗）到苏联时期的犯罪集团，再到现代的国际犯罪组织。车臣的历史充满了战争、种族灭绝、流放和压迫，这些都塑造了车臣人的身份认同，并促成了他们参与犯罪活动。苏联时期的古拉格集中营系统和“疥疮战争”进一步加剧了车臣人的犯罪化。在苏联解体后，车臣黑手党利用其在黑市积累的资源，支持车臣独立运动，并参与国际犯罪活动，例如贩毒、洗钱和军火交易。1993年伦敦发生的双重谋杀案是车臣黑手党在国际舞台上崭露头角的标志性事件。 Danny Gold: 对车臣历史和犯罪集团的讨论。对车臣人的刻板印象和历史背景的分析。对车臣黑手党崛起原因的探讨，包括苏联时期的压迫、经济困境和民族认同等因素。对车臣黑手党与俄罗斯政府以及其他犯罪组织关系的分析。对车臣黑手党在国际犯罪活动中的参与和影响的评估。

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The episode explores the origins of the Chechen Mafia, tracing its roots from ancient invasions and the creation of the 'Abrek' to Soviet repression and the 'Scab War' of the Gulag Archipelago.

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In this episode we track the concept of the Chechen Mafia—not an easy thing to define—from ancient invasions and the creation of the "Abrek", or "outlaw-exile," through Soviet repression, Stalin's deportations and the "Scab War" of the feared Gulag Archipelago.

The rise of a Communist blackmarket later allowed Chechens in Siberia and Kazakhstan to carve out their own illicit empires, outside of Russia's "Thieves World." These newfound gangsters coalesced with an independence movement, whose bloodshed would reach all the way to central London—at the scene of a brutal, 1993 double-murder.

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