History Quotes / TheMafiya

-->--'''Fyodor Chevchenko''', ''Series/ThirdWatch'' ("Crash and Burn")

-->--''[[Literature/CharlieParkerSeries The Unquiet]]''

->Now, all my life, I've been told to fear the Russkies. But I ain't never even met one. Then the Wall come down and we all supposed to be friends. Five minutes later my cousin gets laid out by some Russkie fresh off the boat.

->It was said that when the Soviet Union collapsed, [[TheMafia the Italians]] sent a few guys over to Moscow to assess the potential for muscling in on the emerging market. They took one look at [[HorrifyingTheHorror what was happening on the streets]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere went straight back home]]. Unfortunately, the Russians followed them back, joining the Odessa Mafia that had been operating in Brighton Beach since the midseventies, and now the Italians sometimes seemed almost quaint by comparison with the [[DarkerAndEdgier new arrivals]]. It was kind of ironic, I thought, that what ultimately brought the Russians to our door was not communism, but capitalism. Joe [=McCarthy=] must have been turning in his grave.

->'''Big Smoke:''' Now, all my life, I've been told to fear the Russkies. But I ain't never even met one. Then the Wall come down and we all supposed to be friends. Five minutes later my cousin gets laid out by some Russkie fresh off the boat.
-->-- ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''

->"They'll shoot you just to see if the gun works."

->'''Big Smoke:''' Lotta shit about to go down Carl. Families coming back, Ballas pushing base, Russian cats with nothin' to lose about to bust some ass.
->'''C.J.:''' Russians?

->'''C.J.:''' For real?
->'''Big Smoke:''' For real.

-->-- ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''