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This book, though incredibly well-done and mostly images, is difficult to read for more than small chunks at a time due to the nature of many tattoos and the context they appear in. Baldaev's drawing style in which he creates duplicates of the tattoos is pretty incredible, and his foreword is a necessary read in order to understand the context of the culture he illustrates. Overall this book leaves me overwhelmingly sad; the historical context and society many of these inmates experienced as well as how the Russian criminal world developed afterwards is a painful cycle of the worst that humanity has to offer.