Child Gangs in Eastern Europe?
Ok so I just finished watching HOSTEL (messed up) Now besides the gore and unecaserry amounts of fornacation there was something that cuaght my attention. Child gangs like little kids roaming the Slovikan countryside for candy and gum and monies. Are there any truth to these gangs?
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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I know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.
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I would always do that with my friends. But only between the ages of about 6-8, at which point I moved back to the city. I loved those times. So much room for football. If I remember correctly, we had enuff for 11 versus 11. I bugged my two oldest brothers to make us Goal Posts with Nets. They did, and I was so happy. Good times. I beleeve this is really odd if you are reading it probably. Different culture.
"Half of your brain is that of a ten year old and the other half is that of a ten year old that chainsmokes and drinks his liver dead!" --Hagop Beegan
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No they went around beating up adults who wouldnt give in to there demands and bash there heads in with rocks. I played football to I HAVE FRIENDS PEOPLE LIKE ME!
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Oh, probably should've mentioned that part. I meant real Football, not the bastard-child of Rugby. That, I did not do, though in a couple of years I was a pre-pube killing machine! (err, small child with a rifle)
"Half of your brain is that of a ten year old and the other half is that of a ten year old that chainsmokes and drinks his liver dead!" --Hagop Beegan
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Yes, childhood in Europe is wonderful. Whenever I go back now, I round up a few friends and cousins to try and bring some of it back.Originally Posted by IrishArmenian
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Rather surprised that you think it is true for Russia. In my experience, it's no more prevalent than teenage gangs in Western Europe. Children in Russia are still pretty well behaved - it's when they get drafted (or drop out to avoid the draft) into the army that they turn brutalised and nasty.I know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.
St Petersburg has a real problem with skinhead gangs in their early twenties, unemployed and recently released from the purgatory of the service, but children - not to my knowledge or that of any of my friends and in-laws (who stretch from Petersburg and Moscow over to Perm and Irkutsk).
Maybe you are thinking of Byelorus? I don't know that country so well, and it's a lot poorer.
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Just read an article of a polish childgang where the leader was 4 years oldI know it is true for Russia, about Slovakia I have no idea. In Poland it doesn't appear at all.
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Where ?Just read an article of a polish childgang where the leader was 4 years oldSo the members were 2-3 years old I assume
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[QUOTE=Banquo's Ghost]I meant homeless children they are pretty serious problem in Russia - probably from the XIXth century and never really solved.Rather surprised that you think it is true for Russia. In my experience, it's no more prevalent than teenage gangs in Western Europe. Children in Russia are still pretty well behaved - it's when they get drafted (or drop out to avoid the draft) into the army that they turn brutalised and nasty.
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Krakow, this is the only link I have, and FOK! isn't the most, well, reliable source.Where ?
http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/67529
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Sadly, I don't read Dutch but it looks like the perpetrator was a delinquent kitten...
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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Homeless children I'll agree with you on. Orphanages in Russia are still pits of hell.I meant homeless children they are pretty serious problem in Russia - probably from the XIXth century and never really solved.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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I didn't mean orphanages, but those children who live in the streets, in subway, railway stations etc. From time to time they are swept by police, especially in time of celebrations or international meetings, but the problem is horrible.
@Fragony
It is first time I hear about it and surely it would be in the news etc.Krakow, this is the only link I have, and FOK! isn't the most, well, reliable source.
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