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Historically, organized crime usually stands in opposition to their government, whatever it may be. The US government’s spook shops cultivated relationships with the Mafia in Italy in the run-up to the Second World War out of a desire to use them to destabilize Mussolini, for example. They needed no encouragement. The Fascists and La Cosa Nostra hated one another bitterly. In Russia the Mafiya has its roots in the gulag system and has always hated whatever Russia’s current government happens to be, just on general principles.
Doesn’t keep them from having communistic tastes in Jewelry, at least in video games.
+1 for informative comment.
And vice versa.
@ANoobis
Historically, organized crime usually stands in opposition to their government, whatever it may be. The US government’s spook shops cultivated relationships with the Mafia in Italy in the run-up to the Second World War out of a desire to use them to destabilize Mussolini, for example. They needed no encouragement. The Fascists and La Cosa Nostra hated one another bitterly. In Russia the Mafiya has its roots in the gulag system and has always hated whatever Russia’s current government happens to be, just on general principles.
The thing that keeps a mafia from being communists is that the mob is decidedly capitalist. The criminal part isn’t a point of divergence.
I mean, communism usually results in crimes against humanity