Racket - this criminal occupation strangers income with violence and threats.The popularity of this word has acquired in the perestroika period in the nineties of the twentieth century.
racketeer named not large criminal gangs, engaged in "protection racket."They forcibly imposed their security services to various cooperatives or small businesses, which at that time was a lot.The objectives of these services is getting from the merchant of the gang arrived, for it racketeers protect it from attacks by other competing groups.
gangster romance
Racket 90 years was a real scourge of the country, but did not understand all the horror of what is happening.Image racketeer was enveloped in an aura of romanticism and fearlessness in this direction deliberately to shape public consciousness.Gang consisted mainly of former athletes and the military, which, due to government reforms have lost a loved one case and below the poverty line and in front of them waiting a meaningless existence.
headed groups were usually former criminals.Watching cheap Western militants, they have introduced in the late eighties the concept of "racketeering."
Why is this possible
Racket - a criminal, violent seizure of most of the profits.
Since the beginning of the official permission of entrepreneurial activity and the emergence of the first businessmen in the USSR the main "business" for the gang was extortion.By the mid-nineties of the twentieth century they controlled almost 85% of businesses, except those involved in security business.Do not fall under the "roof" a racketeering organization under the direct patronage of law enforcement.
first owners did not receive any legal support and to survive, were forced to cooperate with criminals.Merchants often involved in gang violence over the zone of influence, asking for help there was no one, since the racket - it's not just bandits.A large part of law enforcement officers were corrupt and linked to the racket.Article of the Criminal Code, which outlaws enterprise was abolished only in late 1991.
Dashing 90th
to a call "criminal appeal" to the gangs rushed the young offspring of the lower social strata.Children from dysfunctional families where mothers to count every penny, and fathers often drunken bench Tapping them.In the big cities, they did not go for the sake of study - attracted by easy ways to gain impunity and permissiveness.It is fashionable to "bandits", the racket has become almost an official way of earnings.
Settled such small gang members in rented apartments for eight people sleeping on the floor, on mattresses, received $ 500 salary, had a used car for five people.
First, all these gangs have enough space, but the more they get, the harder it was to divide the city into zones of influence.And then the shooting started ...
Bandit War
Despite popular belief, that the bandits' 90s, racketeering, the violence appeared only due to the criminal world, you can not say so explicitly.
Bandit War began in 1993, coinciding with the peak of the political struggle within the ruling Russian elite.Then began the first fighting in Chechnya, a year later grew into a real war.All events began almost at the same time and continued in parallel.This suggests that all three phenomena one source.And not criminals, but those who live according to their own, different from other laws, a special caste reigns then.
never know the exact number of crimes committed by bandits at the time.In Moscow alone, for the time that there was a consequence, it has been revealed about fifty murders hundredweights seized weapons, explosives.
In 1994, in the capital killed the greatest number of gang bosses.In this war, it was impossible to see where one where the enemy who is fighting whom.And now it will forever remain unknown who killed whom.
in the post-perestroika, many gangs have set up their security structures and formally legalized, and the term "racket" out of use.Many of the former authorities have gone into business or politics.
criminal clashes groups racket - it's all there in the last century and has become the pages of history.It's time to draw conclusions as to avoid repetition.
