said jump right in twice on that intro my bad and apologies on my singing...

I had a friend who had a fam locked in Russia. He said, "You do not know prison until you're locked up abroad.

The Russian prison tattoos are serious. They used military, religious symbols and every tattoo meant something. You had to be of a certain rank inside the underworld to get some tattoos. There’s some great books about the subject

The "cow" thing was called the "brazen bull" made of brass. The guy who made/designed it was actually it's first victim. King wanted to see it work.

I appreciate you reading the subtitles cuz I’m sneak watchin this while I’m at work and can’t stare at my phone the whole time lol

Brother, you are a complex character. Schooled in prisons and life on the wild side, you also have charisma, a keen mind and a voice made for narration. Your video series are well done and show a lot of hard work. I see good things in Life ahead of you if you stay on the right side of the law. Peace.

Some interviews with ppl who did time in Russia would be killer content, especially seeing how wild that place is

"Heard it thru the grapevine" is in reference to how way back in the day (*before we got spoiled by our technology these days, lol*) there used to be operators that would direct peoples calls rather than just dialing a number yourself. . . You would pick up your phone and automatically be on the line with an operator, and one operator could have multiple phonelines/ people/households etc that they were overseeing. It resembled a grape vine with all the wires from here to there and crossed back this way etc etc. Well, say you call to talk to someone and tell them some good ole gossip just for somebody else to be eavesdropping on your call and all the juicy deets. Lmao. So, thus they heard it thru the grapevine.

This was very enjoyable to watch! Reading the subtitles out loud certainly was helpful. And your singing was definitely a bonus!👍🏾Much respect from Canada! ✌🏾

It's crazy how the song lyrics rhymes in English and Russian

The depression in this place is on an entirely different level 😅 you should check out the book called a hangman’s diary it’s basically a private diary written by a an executioner hundreds of years ago it goes in to great detail of the execution methods used at that time. Also the book crime and punish is very interesting if your into medieval torture methods and how we got where we are today with modern prison systems

Yo Death you should do more of these from countries all around the world reviewing their prisons Africa has some REAL crazy ones alone with Brazil.

Thieves in law are similar to shot callers in USA, highest criminal rank in Russia. This video is old and that time criminal traditions were more alive then now. You had black prisons ruled by thieves and criminal authorities (blatnyje) and red prisons led by prison administration with help of trustees. And now more and more prisons are red. But anyways Russia had deep criminal world traditions, very romanticized and very far going into everyday russian life. Very interesting topic, keep it up!

Thanks for singing to us. Dude's song was lovely for portraying his life's misery. Looking forward to the next part.

cant wait til u hit 1M subs you deserve it and your work ethic shows for it

Loved you reading the captions. Sometimes I am away from my computer listening and you are making these videos listenable!

Lmao your singing the Russian lyrics was on point

Really appreciate your content alot of people don't realize what it's like on the inside , let alone cover it out here much respect.

Thief in law is "Vor v zakone" Kinda like mafia, a criminal with extremely powerful friends and basically untouchable by other "regular" criminals. Blatnoi is a less important criminal than Vor v zakone, but more important than run of the mill criminal. Would have a few influential friends, possibly police/guards paid off and is covered/protected by the law enforcement.

Your voice is awesome, it's one of the things that got me hooked on your channel. I wish I had a good speaking voice like yours. I thought it was great that we got to hear you sing, it was really good. You could seriously do a really great job with something that you had rehearsed. I hope we hear you sing again sometime.

Damn I wasn't expecting being serenaded by death today

You want another prison to check out in Russia, check out Black Dolphin prison. Pretty brutal.

Great video loved your reading and especially your singing. Also very rare and interesting footage also ; much respect from Australia 🇦🇺

Will you do interviews with ppl that haven’t been to prison just jail but lived through a lot of adversity growing up?

I love your channel !! Keep rocking out and I’ll keep watching just drove from San Diego passing through Mississippi at the moment and moving to North Carolina I’ll keep watching

'Thief in Law' in Russia is basically a 'Mafia' Member, not just a Common Criminal, Someone with a Bit of Clout.

Yes, that was called the BRAZEN BULL. It was created for a Roman Emperor by a skilled sculptor. He presented it to the Emperor, and he wanted to see how it worked so he ordered his men to seize the sculptor and put him in it. The Emperor was pleased and did not allow the whole process to be completed. So they pulled the sculptor out and then threw him off of a mountain top.

It was Romans, the guy that made it thought he would get favor from the emperor, Nero I believe it was. He then told the maker if it works as good, you show us. Thinking he wouldn't really set the fire underneath he climbed in, only for the emperor light the fire, he delighted in the screams. The horn BTW, it made the person's screams sound like an animal call

Josh was smoked out in the video I love it hahah

Storytime with Death! Another great children's video for bed time

Dog: barks Death: damn rover!!! 😂😂😂

"Heard it through the grapevine" originally was a civil war(1861-65) saying that referred to the telegraph wires and poles that looked like a grapevine. Rumors were often spread through the telegraph back then. Credence Clearwater Revival (CCR) recorded the song that everyone knows in 1970 but Gladys Knight and the Pips originally recorded it in 1966. Marvin Gaye also covered it in 1968.

I did 15 years in the black dolphin in orenburg oblast Russia..i shared a cell with 9 other men...the cell was 8 feet wide and 15 feet long...i was arrested for possession of stolen goods.. theft..and illegal transportation of stolen goods..the first 5 years were the most violent times of my life fighting every day 7 days a week 4 weeks a month for 5 years...i have over 200 scars head to toe..i swore when i make it out..ill never see another prison again..im originally from Canada and have done tine in the usa as well as Canada and the prisons where like a daycare compared to the black dolphin..no real medical attention what so ever..being a foreigner was my biggest disadvantage the inmates figured i had money so the assaults and violence was endless...the last ten years were not so violent as the knew i was no different then them ..just trying to survive..i was tolerated but never excepted

Thieves by law is the really hardcore prison gang from the Cold War. Pretty crazy people, they built black dolphin prison just to break them apart.

3:30 looks like a video game

Your singing was excellent - that whole section was really moving - your narration in general is really a great innovation - witty stuff - high-gloss bunions - rockin

Your content is so informative but also entertaining bro! You’re beast homie 🫡

It’s a long and hard read, but Aleksander Solzhenitsyn explains gulags and a lot of the meanings of what Russian prisons/gulags are

Encore, Encore!!!!!!👏👏👏👏 Voice of an angel.

4:20 that was the Brazen Bull, the creator of that torture device actually ended up inside of it himself.

That one dude looks like Smiley from Training day

And people want to complain about the food in prison here ,those Russians would probably kill for a ham and cheese sandwich, grits and powdered eggs

In 1918 Russia began to implement their draconian GULAG system. In the 1930’s, the rural Kulak’s were targeted as a means to fund the Industrial Revolution. There is a great 3 part doc on KZfaq about this. Essentially 20,000,000+ were murdered and millions more imprisoned for being an “enemy of the state”. The 1st Amendment in America is something that people take for granted at times.

The whole scene when there feeding them you had me cracking up dude Fr love this video

You’re referring to the bronze bull… it’s inventor told the king who ordered its creation that it created “the most sweet and melodious sounds of suffering”… ironically enough the king, who I think was a bit disgusted, decided to test it out on its inventor…

Camp Hill Pa. The car game was sick circa 2013. I was a tier worker and the COs would let us collect on Saturday. We had to break them off too.

21:19 "damn them thangs glossed up" 😂😅😂

Reporting in from 2045 this guy reads books to my grandchildren at the bookstore now

Preciate you reading the captions bro, i get real lazy on KZfaq. Never went to 10th grade either so words ain’t my forte

Black dolphin is a prison in Russia that looks so much worse than this place and the dogs they have are killers.

I don't get why we don't legalize tattoos in prison... Why not? Legitimize it and give them a career path they can pursue when they're out.. Why not?

your singing really got me. earned you a well deserved thumbs up.

The guy who made that cow for the government was the first person they put in it to boil alive

also when the the prison administatro was talking about tattoos and they showed dudes back with the russian building tattoed, each tower roof with the spyre on the top indicates how many years you did

I know all about that golden cow that they used to build the fire under is belly and once it got so hot the person getting punished inside the cow would start to scream and they say that with that golden horn in that golden cows mouth would make the most terrifying sounds that they hoped it would make all the others think twice!! Evel stuff!!

The fact you actually sang the song 👌 You did good too.

Dude the Brazen Bull…. Death goes old school. Like pre History!

I believe what you were talking about was the bronze bull, crazy enough the guy who made this torture device was the 1st victim

20:30 "That looked like Smeagle on the bunk...." 🤣🤣💀💀💀 Man there were some laugh out loud moments in this. That was a gas.

I like the way you narrated the video and ty

These are always wild videos and I learned something. Thanks death

Death singing?!?! I'm up for it!!! 💯👍🏼👌🏼😎

You 😂 had me crying I'm laughing so hard with you singing the subtitles with the guitar playing. Wtf bro. To much 😂😂😂❤

Bruuuh your Russian singing has me 💀 you just gained points in my book that shit was funny

The bull you were talking about was called the Brazen Bull

You’re singing is good I was able to enjoy it haha. Some people start singing and I have to fast forward the video 🤣

The person that designed that cow was rewarded by becoming the first person boiled alive inside of it.

“Damn look at them bunions” lmao glossed uppp

Thiefes in the law are called Vor v Zakone. It's very interesting you should look it up

Kasha = a type of buckwheat porridge. Very common in the former Soviet Union.

If we had prisons like this we wouldn't have crime anymore.

That dude playing guitar reminds me of that guy in Cool Hand Luke... When they all watch Paul Newman pointless dig the grave.... I think that is that guy!

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Bravo what a performance who knew auld Death could sing

Yea man, that "Black Dolphin" Gulag is easily one of the worst prisons on the planet. You end up there, you are fuuuuuuuuuuudged.

He said Col. Teriyaki! I’m dying!!! Sounds about right!!!! Lmao!

Oh! A 7 string huh? My type of people right there! Gotta love that low end!

kasha is buckwheat btw. its actually pretty good fried with some butter and onions than cooked in water or better yet in some chicked soup. but plainly cooked in water its disgusting.

Thanks for the reason my dude. Standing in the tanning booth I don’t understand Russian lol.

MMA fighter Alexander Emelianenko is in the Thieves in Law. It's a Russian prison gang.

Brazen Bull is a myth but it is said that the guy that made it presented it to the king and the king put him in it, lit the fire and retired it, saying it was far too cruel to use as punishment.

Shout out to Igor from a fellow comrade from the former motherland. Blotnoi means someone who doesn't care about the consequences, someone that is balsy and not afraid to disrespect other people. Someone that stands out because they are or may be overconfident.

10:50 well this is an older video, its not completely that way for tatts in Russia nowdays either. But there are still some only certain people or certain inmates there are going to get. Guess a good example here would be the black hand, only certain ppl are going to get that one done & they most likely will be locked up when they get it (even though they kinda jacked it from the Italians)

Through the grapevines (vines) means that once an 'information' sets off it travels by the ways of vines which are all woven together even though they go far from the grape tree/stump (don't know the word in english) they are all connected and zig-zagin left and right, close and far it is there - smt like a family tree

Bro for like 5 seconds i was checking the thumbnail like damn my man really in the mix with them

New KZfaq idea for you. Singing covers of the prison songs. I saw one rap/ freestyle years ago. Pen tapping, where a black guy was singing about the guards locking him up and throwing away the key... Could never find it again but it was legit really good. If anyone has sauce please post it. "They locked me up and threw away the key.." Only thing I can remember. Good luck internet.

Thanks for the videos man! Keep up the good work

You'll find studying Russian organized crime interesting. Thief-in-law is one who conforms to the thief's code which is more hardcore than Western equivalents and makes one truly an "outlaw" in the correct meaning of that term.

Yooo the singing tho 😂😂😂great video vro

brazen bull. The inventor, Perillos of Athens, presented it to the ruler of Sicily iirc, Phalaris, who was so impressed with it he ordered Perillos to be the first to be executed by it to demonstrate it. Damn. instant karma I guess. Don't worry though, Phalaris ended up in it too eventually.

Your thumbnail images are always hilarious 😅😂

I believe that was an ancient torture technique by the Greeks

beware of remote neural monitoring

Thieves in law = Vor v Zakone they are top in hierarchy of the gangs

The chest hurt more than my ribcage. 100%.

Man USSR used to drop prisoners off on isolated islands, middle of Siberia, no food, not anything, but a boot in the ass as they'd toss you off the boat and leave, lot of Donner Party action.

Thats called Brazen Bull, it was a life sized bronze bull that was hollow so a man would fit inside, there would be a fire set underneath it and slowly the bronze would heat up until the man inside was essentially steamed to death, and the steam would blow through the nose which was purposely designed to make a loud horn sound, thats when you know the man inside is dead. They had some gruesome creative ways to execute people back in ancient times.

Brass bull, it's called the brazen bull. The horn was for the smoke and the screams. You were cooked alive in it.

im definitely going to use josh singing that song as audio for something

LOL!! "damn look at them bunions.. them glossed up!" your commentary is too funny