The word of the kid. Criminal Tatarstan 1970-2010. Garaev R.N.

If you grew up in Russia at the end of the 20th century, then you probably came across street fights. This book tells about people for whom violence has become a kind of loan credo: they knew how to beat and be attacked professionally, daily and mercilessly. We are talking about guys belonging to various youth groups, which massively appeared at the end of the Soviet Union. The first city where this phenomenon became mass was Kazan.

Robert Garayev, author of the book “The Word of the Boy The criminal Tatarstan 1970-2010s, ”himself became a member of the“ lower classes ”, one of the local gangs, in high school. Thirty years later, he decided to unravel the secret of the Kazan phenomenon: more than a hundred teenage groups, which first competed in street fights, and then began to massively eliminate each other. The book talks about how those difficult days recalled the participants of these events - boys, former police officers, lawyers and ordinary residents of the city, affected by fear and cruelty. This is a unique book, collected completely from the memoirs of the survivors and those who seek to tell the truth.