Gangs of the USSR

"In a country of victorious socialism can not be bandits!" - Never tired of repeating the high party officials. How wrong they were! In the USSR gangs appeared regularly, and each is different from their own unique handwriting.

A small survey.





1 "Black Cat" The most mysterious band of the Stalin era, with the light hand of filmmakers called "Black Cats", 3 years his audacious crimes haunted Muscovites. Using a heavy post-war situation and gullible citizens, gang Mitin repeatedly "plucked" large sums of money and escaped unharmed. The investigators have complicated the absence of members of the gang all ties with the criminal world - they are exemplary workers Krasnogorsk defense enterprise. On the criminal path krasnogortsy rose 1 February 1950, when the first kill, and on March 26 they had a big robbery. The words "all stand! We are from the Ministry of State Security! "- Shout out at the store, discouraged employees. Taking advantage of the confusion, the criminals cleared cash in the amount of 63 thousand rubles - a big jackpot at the time. Not a joke now MGB agitated March 27, 1951. On that day, armed with pistols "mitintsy" robbed a store in Kuntsevo, killed trying to stop them director. From this point to the Middle giving Stalin it was only a few kilometers away! Investigators interested in the fact that all the crimes committed by bandits near the stadium. Indeed, some of the attackers turned out to athletes. Near Krasnogorsk stadium "Murovtsev" and attacked on the trail of a gang Mitin. The rest was a matter of technique. As a result of the investigation established that the perpetrators of the 3-year made a total of 28 robberies with 11 killed and 18 wounded, plundered by them were more than 300 thousand rubles. The disclosed deal saved Khrushchev, who is trying to shift from the post of head of the Moscow City Beria.
2 «Fantomas» 3 "anyhow» 4 "Medics»
5 "White Cross»
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