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Re: Russian Mafiya Headstones
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03/09/07 08:21 PM
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Had the same link problem. Site won't fully load, Computer freezes up, Vitelli kicks computer. This is also known as "rebooting". Signor V.
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Re: Russian Mafiya Headstones
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03/10/07 02:40 AM
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Those are typically Russian-Jewish sects that go with those stones. Quite possibly, but if you look at the photo in the original post in this thread, you can plainly see the Russian Orthodox cross on the stone. Signor V.
"For me, there's only my wife..."
"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"It was a grass harp... And we listened."
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"
"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."
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Re: Russian Mafiya Headstones
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03/10/07 06:18 PM
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The fifth one down looks like Mikey Palmice from The Sopranos . Very interestng tombstones, never liked the idea of having my body in the ground.
"When my time comes, tell me, will I stand up?" Paulie "Walnuts" Gaultiere - The Sopranos
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Re: Russian Mafiya Headstones
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03/11/07 09:44 PM
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Here's some info about the so-called "Russian-Jewish Mafiya" that may shed some light: Every citizen of the former Soviet Union had to carry an internal passport that, among other things, listed their republic of origin: Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Khazakstan, etc. But Jews had to carry a passport that listed them as "Jew." This was a vicious expression of Russian anti-Semitism: Stalin regarded Jews as "rootless cosmopolitans" and wanted to know where to find them so he could blame the USSR's problems on them. It was unhealthy to be known as a Jew in the USSR, and a lot of them would rather not have been identified as Jews. But Stalin and his successors, who tried to eradicate all religions, insisted on the "Jew" passport, which had the unintended effect of keeping Jewish identity alive under Godless Communism. Now to the point: Corruption was rampant in Brezhnev's final years. A huge conterfeiting industry grew up in the USSR because gangsters needed "official paper" to get things. Then the US Congress passed the Jackson-Vanik Act in 1974, which gave the USSR favorable trading with the US in return for freer immigration out of Russia. More Jews were now free to leave the USSR, and could emigrate to Israel or the US. Suddenly there was a huge demand for counterfeit Jewish internal passports--anyone holding one could leave Russia for the West. Gangsters--mostly non-Jewish--were the prime customers for those phony passports. Those who weren't really Jewish simply hoked up Jewish names for the passports. Lots of them emigrated to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, NY, where they became known as the "Jewish Mafia." But most weren't really Jewish. The prime example was Marat Balagulla, a Russian thug who got to Brooklyn on one of those phony internal passports. His last name stems from the Hebrew expression "B'aal Agulah," meaning "Master of the Wheel"--a carter, which was a respected trade in Biblical times. But in Yiddish (the vernacular of East European Jews) it became "balagulla," which meant a "truck driver"--a euphemism for any uncouth person. During the heyday of Jewish gangs in the 1910's and 20's, thugs were known as "balagullas." Marat, a non-Jew, decided that a "realistic" Jewish name for his phony passport would be "balagulla," which he thought sounded Jewish, and really described his own "profession." US immigration authorities never questioned it.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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