#russian true crime

[burningreactor]

"Blue Whale" - russian suicide game

(also known by "Quiet House", "Wake Me up at 4:20", "Sea of Whales", "Milky Way", "U19", "F57" and others)

A phenomenon from the Russian internet in 2015-2017. Nowadays it is considered an urban legend about groups in Vkontakte (Russian equivalent of Facebook) where you could take a challenge that end with your death.

-poem that teenagers posted on their pages

The blue whale will save me

He will lead me to #quiethouse

#f57 gives us all no peace

#f58 we know that help is coming

#I'll cut one, two, three

#bluewhale save me

In order to start the "game", users post the hashtags (bluewhale, imingame, blue, quiethouse, etc.) on their pages, after which they are contacted by a "curator". The curator first explains the rules: "don't tell anyone about this game", "always complete tasks, whatever they may be", "if you failed, you are excluded from the game forever and bad consequences await you", then the curator begins to issue tasks. There are usually about 50 tasks: one per day. This may be an allusion to Stace Kramer's novel 50 Days Before My Suicide. The curators demanded a photo report from the victims. The pictures had to be sent at 4:20 a.m. In the final, the player was allegedly forced to commit suicide.

The tasks themselves often teetered on the verge of idiocy - the curators asked to draw a whale on a piece of paper, cut the symbols #f40 and #f57 with a blade on arm, go out to greet the dawn on the roof, prick with a needle in their body all day or listen to scary audios. In one of the variations of the "Blue Whale", the teenager was informed on the 22nd task of the date of their death, after which they had to humble and swear allegiance to the game, and then wake up at 4:20 for 20 days, watch psychedelic videos and leave cuts on the arm.

To intimidate the players, the curators threw the player a link with a sniffer, a program that allows you to find out the IP address and approximate area of residence of the user. Teens was horrified by sniffers, especially when trying to leave the game. Curators sent them their home address and promise to kill their relatives. Because of this, some children did not dare to stop playing, although there is no evidence that any of them eventually reached the 50th task and committed suicide.

VK blocked access to the groups the pages of their administrators and thematic hashtags. Many who decided to join the game complained about the lack of messages from the curators. But numerous opponents of the "Blue Whale", calling themselves "dolphins", knocked on them. Their communities and general behavior model are essentially copied from the public "Sea of Whales", the administrator of which Philip Chelov in May 2016 tried to confront Philip Fox and his death groups.

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Trolls quickly found the suicidal game, including the inhabitants of the anonymous image board "Dvach" (Russian equivalent of 4chan). Trolls have been massively entering the game from fake pages and sending curators absurd questions or catching them on contradictions. For example, they claimed that the whale scratched on the arm with a blade would not be blue, but red, they offered to use drugs together at 4:20 or presented as officers. Some threw sniffer links to the curators, found out their home address and scared the FSB special forces who had already left for them.

Thanks to the trolls, internet community and teens themselves have finally realized the truth: there is no cult in Russia that purposefully drives teenagers to suicide. Moreover, all anonymous curators of death games are often the same teenagers as their potential victims.

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Novaya Gazeta journalists claimed that between 2015 and early 2016, about 130 children died while participating in the game, but the sources of this information are unknown. Both the journalists of Novaya Gazeta, who spread information about the phenomenon the most, and the journalists of other publications in their articles never provided any objective data on the number of victims of the game. This number of victims is not confirmed by goverment either. The game's popularity peaked in February 2017, when more than 800 users posted the hashtag #bluewhale, waiting for instructions.

The popularity of the Blue Whale is also linked to the death of Renata Palenkova, better known as Rina Palenkova, a schoolgirl who took a selfie before throwing herself under a train in November 23, 2015.

The news of the death groups sent the parents into a panic. They massively disseminated information about the blue whale and asked other parents to be more attentive with their children.

The popularity of the blue whale has spread to other countries. Among them were the countries of Europe and Asia closest to Russia, as well as countries abroad.

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Roskomnadzor promised to check all the materials set out in the Novaya Gazeta article. On May 20, the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee decided to initiate a criminal case on the grounds of a crime provided for incitement to suicide.

On November 15, 2016, one of the defendants in the case, the administrator of a number of communities, Philip "Fox" Budeikin, was detained. He and a number of his accomplices are charged with driving at least 15 teenagers to suicide. On the eve of his arrest, Philip Budeikin gave an interview where he stated that he suffers from bipolar disorder. However, a forensic psychiatric examination found him sane. His goal was to purge society of bio trash. On July 17, 2017, court sentenced Philip for driving minors to suicide using social networks to imprisonment for a period of 3 years and 4 months in a penal colony.

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Since June 7, 2017, Russia has had a law on criminal liability for the creation of death groups, providing for up to 6 years in prison. It is still not clear whether the blue whale had victims, because it is difficult to establish due to the panic that arose at the time, where any suicide was attributed to death groups. Even the famous Rina is not a victim of the instigation of the curator.

[wrathzy]

Project Sanitater-88:

In October 2018, an anonymous user from the Russian imageboard website Dvach, similar to 4chan, published the links to two videos on the platform. These videos revealed the abhorrent works of the Russian Neo-Nazi extremist group "Project Sanitater-88," responsible for pummeling and killing homeless people in Moscow using blades and hammers. The Germanic word "Sanitäter" translates to "paramedic," particularly back from World War II, and the "88" symbolizes the letters "HH" or Heil Hitler.

The Dvach staff deleted the videos, but they were subsequently uploaded on other domains, including a page of a Neo-Nazi group called the "White Hunter Society" for a contest in which members of similar groups shared videos of barbaric attacks. Not only did this grasp the attention of Russian police, but it also piqued the interest of anonymous users of Dvach. The army of anonymous users identified the uploader as St. Petersburg student Vitaly Tkachenko, who was seventeen years old at the time. Vitaly was arrested, along with another teenager around his age.

It appears that the videos uploaded by Vitaly were copycats of similar atrocities committed in Moscow a few years prior. From 2014 to 2015, a crew of Neo-Nazi youths, 20-year-old Pavel Voitov, 25-year-old Elena Lobacheva, 23-year-old Artur "Narcis" Narcissov, 19-year-old Maxim "Zakirka" Pavlov, and 21-year-old Vladislav "Persik" Karataev, went on a rampage. Infamously known as "The Cleaners," this band of young militants murdered more than 15 people. The killings were motivated by their desire to "clean the city" and their disdain for alcoholics and vagrants.

The victims, some of which were either intoxicated, homeless or guest workers, were lured into vacant areas, mostly at night, before being struck with a hammer and stabbed to death with blades afterward. While police had few to no physical or virtual leads to follow, they suspected these killings were by the same individuals and merged them into one case. The police and the FSB eventually tracked the cellular devices in the areas where the murders transpired. Now that they had got their lead, the hunt was on.

On February 15, 2015, Pavel Voitov and Artur Narcissov assaulted a janitor in Vykhino, but he resisted the attack, forcing the two to flee the scene. The janitor then notified the authorities and described the attackers. On February 19, 2015, the police and the FSB managed to apprehend Pavel Voitov and Elena Lobacheva after their home was located through CCTV cameras. During the search, five knives, an unregistered firearm, clothing with the janitor's blood on them, and a hammer were collected. They also found Elena's computer, which contained photos of the victims with their bodies severely mutilated and a step-by-step instruction guide on how to kill people.

Investigators would then arrest Maxim Pavlov, Vladislav Karataev, and Artur Narcissov. All suspects confessed to the homicides during an interrogation. The gang also admitted being inspired partly by serial murderer Alexander Pichushkin, the "Chessboard Killer," convicted for murdering 49 people in Moscow. On October 23, 2017, the Moscow City Court sentenced Pavel Voitov to life imprisonment, Elena Lobacheva to 13 years imprisonment, and Maxim Pavlov to 9 years and six months in a penal colony. Vladislav Karataev was given a 16-year sentence, and Artur Narcissov to 9 years and six months, both to be served in a corrective labor colony.

[mysharona1987]

Putin is terrible but credit to him for doing something other than “mysteriously fell out of a high window.”

Really speaks for how he’s grown creatively.

[strangebabushka]

Hi ruterror fandom wyd

[blueiscoool]

In the Moscow region, Russian cops decided to demonstrate their driving skills and of course you know the rest.

[besyabes]

Как бы выглядела заставка несуществующей игры про Сергея Головкина (Фишера)

What would the splash screen of a non-existent game about Sergei Golovkin (Fisher) look like?

[helena-bottom-farter]

28 Clubhouse Avenue in Venice, California

The former home of Mark Ross aka Aesop Aquarian, where on November 5, 1969, John Philip Haught allegedly shot himself playing Russian roulette with a loaded gun. Terrible odds.

[themilkcrate]

Unit 731: How to Uncover One of The World's Worst War Crimes

The horrors of Unit 731 were almost lost to history. The US covered up Japan's war crimes for the chance to get ahold of Japan's research. Research that was compiled due to Japan's human experimentation. Japan's human experiments were an "open secret." The experiments were so rampant and wide spread that many of Japan's Universities used such methods.

The research was useless. It was torture for the sake of torture. Even if they "discovered" something, it would still be inaccurate due to the victims being starved, dehydrated, and maimed. The "discovery" wouldn't apply to healthy citizens.

Due to the scientists/researchers handing over their "research" to the United States, Douglas MacArthur was able to hand the perpetrators full immunity. They should've met the rope. They wouldn't have statues and monuments currently standing in Japan in their honor.

The details of Unit 731 are horrifying. There were zero (0) survivors.

Videos of the horrors of Unit 731 are gaining popularity, however, if you went up to someone on the street and asked them about Unit 731, chances are they'd ask you, "What's Unit 731?"

Many of the perpetrators were not only let off scot free, but were rewarded prolific careers. The are monuments and statues of them in Japan. People who committed war crimes have monuments in their honor. Japan didn't even acknowledge Unit 731 until 1988. They did not apologize for what happened. The body count of Unit 731 is heavily speculated because they would "label" their prisoners. They were tattooed with a number. However, when the prisoner would die, the number the deceased was "labeled" with would be reused.

To clarify, the Japanese government was well aware of Unit 731. The Japanese government funded war crimes.

Here's some articles and books.

[inkykeiji]

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[notyourwatermelon]

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[burningreactor]

Ilshat Kuzikov - "The cook" from St. Petersburg

Russian murderer and cannibal who killed for lack of food and medical care.

Ilshat was born on February 27, 1960 in Leninabad (Khujand), Tajikistan, later the family moved to Leningrad (Saint Petersburg). As a child, he was traumatized by one event – in 1971, when Ilshat was only 11 years old, he witnessed the murder of his mother by his own father.

Ilshat's father had alcohol addiction and he was a domestic tyrant. That day, he severely beat his wife, who later died of injuries. The murder of his mother (and his father himself) affected Ilshat's psychoemotional state, as a result of which he began to show signs of a mental disorder and was registered in a neuropsychiatric dispensary.

Kuzikov was provided with one-room apartment and began to pay a disability pension. Despite this, Ilshat was unable to lead a socially prosperous lifestyle. Starting in 1982, he became addicted to alcohol. In the mid-1980s, while undergoing another course of treatment, he met a female patient with whom he soon began a romantic relationship. A few months later, Kuzikov married her, but the marriage lasted only two years. During one of the fights with his wife, he attacked her, after which she filed for divorce and left Kuzikov.

After the collapse of the USSR, Kuzikov lost all his savings, and his social pension was completely devalued. Due to financial difficulties and rising prices, he began to starve. In order not to starve to death, Ilshat working part-time at the local market as a janitor. During this period, his mental state began to worsen. Kuzikov sought psychiatric help several times, but all his requests and complaints were ignored.

The first victim was Pechenkin – the maniac killed him with a wrench, then dragged the body into the bathroom and dismembered it there. The second victim was Bochkov – was first severely beaten, as drinking companions had a serious fight, and then killed. The third proven victim, Vasilevsky, was a fellow sufferer, they once lay together in a psychiatric hospital. All his victims were also his lovers.

Throughout his terrible "career", he periodically realized that what he was doing was not normal. He tried to get qualified psychiatric treatment. This information was confirmed at the investigation – Kuzikov not just tried to making himself look good.

He practically did not disguise himself in any way – he took out the remains in the trash, almost without covering or hiding them. Ilshat washed the apartment of blood only with cold water, since he has no money for cleaning products.

As a result of the investigation and trial, Ilshat Kuzikov was released from criminal liability due to insanity and sentenced to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital.

[allurlsaregone-blog]

[iamnottoph]

ah yes, those dastardly ruskies, poisoning the minds of our american youth through the incredibly influential cultural touchstone of *checks notes* tumblr dot com

Just a thought for the night, but remember in 2016 there were all these accounts that seemed really really telling you all the ways Hillary Clinton was some kind of demon woman, just the worst, and really Trump wouldn't be worse and maybe he'd even be better?

and then it turned out they got banned for being literally Russian agents and never came back because spoiler they were?

does it feel like that all over again? just a thought.

[errruvande]

Watching a surprisingly huge amount of true crime podcasts lately for someone who had never been interested in true crime whatsoever

[wizardyke]

i feel like literally everyone aside from white people from anglophone countries are allowed to make fun of europe. there's like ten million valid reasons i can list like literally any of the problems are shared or paralleled very closely (in regards to social attitudes or systemic/cultural racism etc) or like "hqha thats literally your grandpa" but honestly its mostly becsuse its so unfunny