The Mafia In Coppola's The Godfather

Tracing back to the increments of time, one of the most notorious topics that is investigated and still practiced today is the organized crime best known as, Mafia. Subjective towards the act of killing, mobster hitmen are forced into the bloody acts of murder in order to provide themselves with some sort of living. This is undoubtedly depicted in mainstream’s media such as Coppola’s The Godfather or De Palma’s Scarface. Yet, these astounding works only serve to portray the stereotypical handy jobs that the mafia is involved with including: killing, racketeering, gambling, alcohol, drugs and prostitution. Although these conventional acts are indeed practiced, the creation of the Mafia stems back to cultural aspects and is instigated on behalf

He rose to extreme heights due to strategy and intellect he acquired through his educational background, specifically an economic major. This helped Seimon maneuver his way through trading of arms, drugs, etc. and finally marked his print on Russia’s most destructive and powerful consortium, The Solntsevskaya Bratva (located on the bottom of the collage). Although some may think education may not be correlated with thug life, many Russian involvements especially those in the Solntsevskaya brotherhood (like Mogilevich), learned to transition practice of their everyday employments and schooling, into the efforts of establishing the most precise and systematized form of organized crime. But what’s more, are the blood ties between these mafia men; the reason to the numerous faces coated on the collage including: Berezovsky, Mikhailov, Kumarin, Ivankov, Timofeyev, Lazovsky, Reznikov is meeting the same essential goals of status, code of honor, respect and ultimately the termination of parliamentary prejudices. Stationing back to the time of 1930’s during Stalinist regime, convicts of political and economic stance abided by their own traditions and rules when confined in the Gulags, as represented by the handcuffs. These jailbirds adopted a caste system based on shared values, customs, conducts, behaviors

Where the division of tasks maybe seen as effective, the Sicilian brotherhood objectively defines individualism when gang members decided to split into five distinct families. With some time, each family was watching out of themselves and the sense of loyalty became shattered. Even until this day, as stated by history.com, “some Mafiosi, in order to avoid long prison terms, began breaking the once-sacred code of omerta and testified against fellow mob members”. Moreover, Italian mobsters don’t place a great importance on mafia identification, but ritualistically members are solicited through an introductory dinner and given a badge. But still since their start in the prohibition era, the one thing both the Italian mafia shares with Russian gangs is repudiation to government authorities and this is what allows the mafias to live on.

In conclusion, mafias instinctively share the same characteristics stereotypically, but Russia serves to prove that without faithfulness, allegiance and devotion to their kind, no system will last in strength holistically. The Russian’s dominance is maintained by having “their own state to work from, in fact a former superpower”. As a result, when comparing the Russian mafia versus Sicilian brotherhood, “Italian organized crime in America is a pimple on a horse's