Russian gopniks. How Russian gopniks conquered the Internet and taught the West to sit on the courts

The Gopnik subculture is notable for the fact that it appeared in the USSR, although, in fact, Gopniks- This is a layer of working youth from low-income families, and similar layers can be found in literally any country at one time or another. Eg, British punks 1930s (not to be confused with the punk subculture of the 1960s-1970s), about which you can read more in the article on punks. However, domestic gopniks are a truly unique phenomenon.

There are several versions of the origin of the word “Gopnik”. According to the first of them, the term appeared at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, and the situation was like this: in St. Petersburg a State Charity Society was established, where street children who were involved in theft and hooliganism were placed. Perhaps the word “gopnik” began to be used in relation to these same street children. Another option: in the building of this State Society after the revolution of 1917, the Civil Hostel of the Proletariat was organized, which was used for the same purposes as the previous society. In both cases, the word “Gopnik” comes from the abbreviation of these institutions. Another version says that the word “Gopnik” comes from thieves’ slang. According to this version, gopniks were thieves who were engaged in gop-stopping (following the example of other criminal “specializations”: a pickpocket - a “tweezer”, a murderer - a “mokrushnik”, etc.). Some argue that “Gopnik” comes from the abbreviation “citizen of dangerous behavior.” However, in all these cases, a gopnik is any antisocial type with thieves' habits. The Gop subculture became especially acute in the 1970s and 1980s. Gopniks declared themselves in numerous fights with the then Soviet informals - punks and metalheads. Since then, the word “gopnik” has firmly entered our vocabulary.

Among the musical preferences of Gopniks are criminal chanson, rap and low-grade pop music. Gopniks cannot imagine their collective walks without listening to their favorite music. Soviet gopniks listened to music on battery-powered cassette recorders. Gopnik, who carried a “mafon” with him, was held in special esteem among the “Kents”. Nowadays, gopniks listen to music from mobile phones. The current gopniks are passionate fans creativity of such groups as “Factor-2”, “Gaza Strip”, “Butyrka”, “Leningrad”, “Casta”, “Malchishnik” and performers Noggano, rapper Syava, etc.
So all the signs are there separate subculture Gopnikov - their own ideological principles, musical tastes, your own style of clothing, as well as an incomparable style of behavior. Low level moral and aesthetic development, short spiritual level Gopnikov determines appropriate behavior. Young people who want to live “by the rules” put on a “clean” tracksuit and go drink beer with the “lads”. And the saddest thing is that the number of such people is not decreasing at all.

IN English language There is such a word as privacy*. In the Russian language there is something completely different - gopnik. The meanings of both are almost impossible to convey to native language, it’s generally useless to translate. But both words characterize some kind of...

There is such a word in English privacy*. In the Russian language there is something completely different - gopnik. The meanings of both are almost impossible to convey in one’s native language; it is generally useless to translate. But both words characterize some kind of unique environment. For example, they have complete freedom of movement - at any time and in any direction. This is privacy. We have a passport regime, registration, “detention until clarification.” This is absolutely legal bullshit. And it is impossible to combine these two concepts. They are mutually exclusive.

Over the past hundred years, we have given two definitions to gopniks. Vagrants, beggars and petty thieves. These formed the backbone of the poor committees who dispossessed the peasants. For them, on the site of two Petrograd hotels, the Bolsheviks opened the “City Hostel of the Proletariat” (abbreviated as “GOP”). It's 1920.

Poorly educated youth of the city outskirts, the LDPR electorate, driving tuning “nines”. They gnaw seeds at the entrances, litter on the sidewalks, hate visitors from the CIS, engage in petty racketeering, wear pointy shoes and drink strong beer from plastic cups. It's already the 90s.

Both of them, as is commonly believed, no longer exist. According to legend, the Gopnik concentrate of the beginning of the century was destroyed Soviet authority, with difficulty dissolving them into the mass of decent citizens. The same thing happened with the gopniks of the 90s, the bastards of the transition period - this is how stability under Vladimir Putin affected the stratum. But it would be stupid to say that in both cases the bullshit was over. Gopnik just disappeared into the crowd, changed into new clothes and got behind the wheel of another car. The masses, in turn, acquired some of his signs. Gopnichestvo itself has ceased to denote a narrow group of people; now it is a character trait of every person. And the key properties - lack of understanding of the boundaries of personal freedom, that is, privacy, hostility and even the lack of self-irony - are now inherent in everyone.

But for some more, for others not. Someone is almost a gopnik, and someone is almost decent. Who, for example, is my friend, the sweet-looking young accountant Roman, I still don’t know. In his red Peugeot, he gave way to pedestrians. An hour later, he knocked off the rear-view mirror from a neighbor’s car in the parking lot and drove on. For the birthday of our mutual friend Sergei, Roma books a table at one of Novikov’s restaurants and gives him some vague Mexican bamboo. And an hour later, after a little friendly banter over the gift, he hits Sergeyev’s face with all his might. Finally, Roma complains about the dominance of migrants. And then he convinces us that Estonia is the only Nazi country in the world.

Gopnichestvo has a different appearance and new habits. Using Roman as an example, we have compiled instructions on how to recognize a modern Gopnik, what signs and differences he has from his predecessors.

*Privacy- designation of immunity privacy, personal freedoms of a person and their boundaries established by law.

Gopnik and Gopnik

The Gopnik of the 90s did not understand the meaning of the word “Gopnik”. The concept was used only outside the Gopnik layer. In this sense, G. were designated as a kind of closed subculture like punks, skinheads or goths. But unlike them, the G. did not assign any names to the rest of the population (among the punks and Goths, ordinary citizens were “civilians”). Moreover, G. did not recognize the difference between themselves and other people. Modern representatives of this stratum very often use the concept of G. in relation to visitors, the unemployed, politically indifferent people, people without higher education. This is what Roman does, being a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. With G.'s inherent intolerance, Roman despises everyone who is like him.

Note:as a synonym for G. Lately“redneck” is used: “office redneck”, “redneck from the Caucasus”, “fashionable redneck”, etc.

Gopnik and privacy

The last thing Roma will think about is the interests and comfort of those around her. Roma doesn’t seem to know at all about other people’s interests. Therefore, he easily throws cigarette butts out of the window onto the heads of passers-by. Before buying the car, Roma had never given up his seat to women or elderly people on the subway. And then - your own parking spot on the sidewalk. If Roma had a dog, he would take it to the toilet on the playground and wouldn’t even think about grabbing a bag. For Roma, there is only his own privacy, although he does not know what it is. And he always provides it at the expense of others.

Gopnik and clothes

Pointed shoes bought at the market, a tracksuit and a cap with a short visor are becoming a thing of the past. Shopping centers With European clothes There are now in every district of Moscow and other million-plus cities. G. joined casual style: casual jeans, shirt, sneakers. But at the same time, the element of bad taste has not gone away: modern G. fell in love with cheap chic and pretentiousness. An inexpensive T-shirt must have rhinestones, sneakers should have sparkles, preferably in a golden hue. Under the (specially) unbuttoned shirt, again with rhinestones, there is a thick chain. In the summer, instead of shorts, young G. wear jeans rolled up to the knees. And it is impossible to understand what the goal is being pursued here.

In general, any thing should give off pathos, this is fundamental - with a suit for 5 thousand rubles. Be sure to wear bright cufflinks. Clothes should not only look chic, they should shout about it. Hence G.’s painful desire to buy fakes famous brands. Our Roman has a large golden plaque with the inscription Prada on his belt. In the passage on Pushkinskaya such a thing costs 700 rubles. (“The fashionable redneck” wears the original, but the badges are still the same - golden and huge.)

The Zara chain of stores is very popular among Roma. Despite the long lines, Roma has no favorite store. For 15 thousand rubles. there you can dress from head to toe. Moreover, the external features of the items are very similar to the assortment of more expensive brands. If you stick big Armani letters to some jeans, you won’t be able to tell them apart at all. Zara has been accused of piracy more than once. But how can you refuse such a wonderful niche?

Gopnik and non-Gopnik

Unlike his predecessor, modern G. strives to be like a non-gopnik. Roman communicates at work with the most different people. But close contacts are difficult to achieve, which irritates Roma. His inability to joke and generally understand irony repels ordinary citizens. It is also impossible to convince Roma of anything. Like any G., Roma speaks out on any topic and does not recognize alternative opinions. So a dispute with Roma is considered an invasion of his privacy zone and, most likely, will end in an invasion of yours. In a conversation, he likes to touch his interlocutor with his hands, thereby emphasizing the idea. When you start talking, Roma will immediately get distracted by his own affairs, stare at the phone or turn on the radio.

Gopnik and power

In general, G. is extremely apolitical. But G. has his own opinion about power. If our Roman went to the polls, it was only because his colleagues and friends went to the polls. Although Roma doesn’t care about the interests of those around him, conforming to the infidels is his main idea. Despite this, Roman cannot be trusted because of his voice. Power, in his opinion, cannot be so complicated. It should be specific, clear, but not directly affecting Roma himself. The president has such power, for which every G. sincerely loves him. At the same time, G. despises all its other representatives. And he is afraid of specific ones - the police, tax authorities, etc. Unlike the president, they can always apply their direct and obvious power to G.. But Roma, like a normal G., does not accept this.

Gopnik and patriotism

Gopnik and civic activism

Young G.'s apoliticality can always be overcome. The only important thing is to publicly share his views. Now several political forces are doing this at once - starting with the DPNI, ending with the more decent ones - the Young Guard and Nashi. But among the DPNI and “Nashi” there are too many actual G., whom Roman avoids whenever possible (see Gopnik and Gopnik). Therefore, his favorites at the moment are United Russia.

Gopnik and the law

Nobody follows the laws, for this reason Roman does the same. Corresponding, as it seems to him, to the masses. He often gets behind the wheel drunk. Doesn't consciously fasten his seat belt. Another thing is that when he was once hit in the ass at a crossroads, Roman changed his manners somewhat. But I still haven’t learned to obey the laws - this can only be forced. That is why G. so dislikes power in the person of specific executors (see Gopnik and power). By invading G.'s unlimited privacy, they force him to change his views. And for self-confident G. there is nothing more terrible.

Gopnik and music

Here Roman has gone far from G. of the previous decade. Instead of techno and chanson - R&B and Britpop. Roma also knows the lyrics to “A Star Called the Sun” and “Oh-Oh.” And it’s already better than techno. But something doesn’t give me peace. Some kind of hesitating song between the tracks “Verv” and “Radiohead” “Wait, where am I going?!” girls from "Star Factory". A little more - and now they are playing “Don’t Go Crazy” by Timati, “Don’t Be Born Beautiful” by Yulia Savicheva...

Still, it would be better if he listened to techno with chanson.

Gopnik and the church

Probably nothing warms Roma more than the Orthodox faith and solitude in church. Baptized of his own free will at the age of 20, he visits the temple every six months - at Christmas and Easter. There you can be yourself, away from all these intellectuals selling Christ. Without hesitation, take out a massive cross from under your shirt with rhinestones. And, if you have the patience, listen to what the fathers have to say.

One Christmas I met Roma with three canisters in front of the temple on Sretenka. Bypassing the service, he greedily loaded holy water into the trunk.

Verbatim

Masha Gaidar, leader of the youth organization “YES!”: For me this is synonymous with rudeness, impudence

For me, this is synonymous with rudeness and impudence. This is a person for whom no one exists around. He is absolutely not embarrassed to do what is convenient for him, although someone else may not like it. Gopnik is sure that he is always right. He proves that he is right only by force, because he knows nothing else.

Gopnik most likely had a difficult childhood. Problems in the family, difficulties with studies. He didn’t make it to university because he couldn’t and didn’t want to. Gopnik finds it difficult to communicate in company decent people, so he can only be seen among others like him.

Such people are now found in youth political organizations. This, for example, is the combat wing, so to speak, of “Nashi”. Not all “Ours”, only provocateurs who disrupt the actions and rallies of their opponents and destroy embassies. They act according to principles, and they don’t have to pay for it with sausages and glazed curds.

Alexander Belov-Potkin, leader of the DPNI: A declassed element prone to committing crude, graceless crimes

In my understanding, a gopota is a declassed element prone to committing gross crimes devoid of grace. Globally, gopota as a phenomenon manifests itself during a period of economic instability, when a large number of First of all, young people cannot realize themselves in life, are cut off from their family environment and lead an asocial lifestyle. By gathering in groups, they create a certain subculture. She is not a “classical” criminal, since the gopot lives according to quasi-concepts.

IN modern Russia and in Ukraine, gopniks, as a rule, come from urban areas in rural areas, that is, they are not peasants or townspeople in the classical sense. Each of them individually can be a good person. However, due to difficult situation in regional centers, heavy financial situation parents, average or low intellectual abilities, lack of work and other sources of livelihood, young people try to survive together, sometimes uniting in semi-criminal communities.

If you try to draw a portrait of an average gopnik, it will be a man under 25 years old, dressed in clothes bought at the “Vietnamese” market, smokes tobacco, is not averse to drinking and scoring a joint, may be the owner of a VAZ 2108 car, a fake Swiss watch most likely has short hairstyle, listens to outdated pop music or chanson, tries to talk “for life”, his face has a characteristic “country tan”, he can chew sunflower seeds. Gopnichestvo has no nationality and is common among different peoples.

Gopnik attributes: cap, gold or silver chains, cheap signet, purse, Leather Jacket waist-high. Insolent behavior, especially in a community of similar people. He may begin to find fault with words and appearance if he sees a “sucker” or “not local.”

Once in the early 90s, I came out of the metro with a girl, stopped to buy champagne at a tent and chocolate candies, then walked towards the house. Apparently, at the tent I “shone the shovel.” On the way through the square, I felt that someone was following us. He abruptly grabbed a bottle of Sovetsky from the bag and turned around. Two pairs of frightened eyes of Gopniks of Caucasian origin looked at me, one had a knife. A second pause - and they ran away.

In the 1990s it seemed that “ Gopniks" will soon take over, if not the whole world, then at least one sixth of the land. "Gopniks" ruled the roost in all 11 time zones of Russia. Gopniks - or Russian men, who adopted the style of Gopniks, surged into all spheres of life, from “business”, where they played the role of sixes, to politics, where they formed the core of the resistance Western influence…

Gopnik(gop. ras. normal guy; goper, gopar, gop, gopota, punks, gopson; in post-revolutionary Petrograd - a resident of the City Dormitory of the Proletariat (the current Oktyabrskaya Hotel), according to contemporaries, everyone wore red socks and were identified by them, and it came from there) - the lowest multicellular, a bastard from the criminal world, but in fact - a punk, a petty street criminal and a redneck larva, an example of one of the types of street animals (cats, dogs, gopniks, etc), whose main hobby is doing push-ups with passers-by and cell phones, well and of course, fuck up emo and others. In the West, gopniks call themselves hooligans.

The appearance of Gopniks is not difficult for our readers: these are Russian guys of the “don’t put your finger in your mouth” type with pimply skin and dull faces, which reflect only one thought: “I’ll give it to you!”

"These guys are more comfortable squatting than standing. But, most importantly, they are the last males on planet Earth who can wear leather gangster caps from the 1920s with style - everyone else in such caps looks only like fagots from theater school rehearsing some musical,” the newspaper writes.

Gopniks are cool because there is no place for self-irony in their world. They are very "authentic". Proof of this is their fantastically adventurous tastes: a mixture of bad taste, menace and garish Third World chic.

Even the fact that Gopniks like to blast techno at full blast, sing shitty karaoke songs in cheap cafes with color music, or wear cheap pointed leather boots to match their 1920s ragtime-style pillbox caps cannot take away their status as the most dangerous. scum in the world.

History of the word, Gopnik culture

About the word: there are few terms that one hundred percent correspond to the designated object. "Gop" sounds angry, stupid and funny, but not so funny that you dare to laugh in the face of a gopnik. The word "Gopnik" is based on the abbreviation: "State hostel of the proletariat." Add to "G.O.P." the suffix “nick” - and the new biological species is ready.

Gopniks appeared after the revolution. The first gopniks came to Petrograd in the 1920s in search of work. By origin, they were peasants or completely landless scum.

The species "common gopnik" even had its own specific habitat - Ligovsky Prospekt, building 10. Actually, this is a hotel, now called "Oktyabrskaya", and the gopniks, in their own way, turned it into a collectivist gangster club, the publication writes.

Since they were outsiders in their villages, often children from single-parent families, and many already had petty crimes on their record, if not something worse, indigenous people Petrograd, and then Leningrad, were disgusted with Gopniks.

They went down in legends as thugs and lucky ones, whom even the Soviet system could not break. They had their own code of honor, they lived by their own rules, they had their own tattoos on their fingers, their own fashions. They represented something like a caste of “thieves in law” in the world of delinquent “hooligans”.

Later, the meaning of the word changed, and the expression “gopnik” meant any dubious type with a shaved head, wearing a thick leather jacket, stupid leather boots and a pillbox cap.

1990s - the rise of Gopniks

In the 1990s, it seemed that Gopniks would soon take over, if not the whole world, then at least one-sixth of the land. "Gopniks ruled the roost in all 11 time zones of Russia. "Gopniks - or Russian men who adopted the Gopnik style - surged into all spheres of life, from "business", where they played the role of sixes, to politics, where, as deputies from the LDPR, they formed the core of resistance to Western influence"

Some gopniks exchanged leather jackets and sweatshirts for brown blazers from Hugo Boss, but could not resist complementing this splendor with shiny mules: gold chains on their hands and necks, fancy watches and so on. The Gopnik culture in the 90s was accompanied by techno music. However, the 1990s turned out to be not so much the rise of the Gopnik Nation as the Beginning of its End.

Have Gopniks survived to this day?

To explore the culture of modern Gopniks, the newspaper's correspondents went to Lyubertsy, a city that in the 1990s was known as the capital of Gopniks. Criminality was as common there as tracksuits and seed husks.

Imagine the surprise of the journalists when they could not find any gopniks there. Then the representatives of the newspaper decided to go to one of the most sinister areas of Moscow, Brateevo, but they didn’t find any gopniks there either.

What happened to the Gopniks? Most sources agree that two factors contributed to their extinction. First: in the 1980s and 1990s, hard drugs and weapons suddenly became widely available.

Their introduction into such a fearless and primitive culture as the Gopnik culture meant that in one decade almost half of the individuals left for another world.

"The second reason has more to do with changes in the environment. The advent of Western bourgeois values ​​and cultural preferences, as well as the beginning of a period of external stability, growth and sobriety under Putin, means that Gopnik's 70-year reign as the king of the world of rebels has suddenly come to an end: Russians of all social classes layers quickly hated the dork aesthetics of Gopniks"

Nothing speaks more eloquently about the tragic disappearance of Gopnik from the face of the earth than the fact that Shnur is from the Leningrad group, big fan Gopnik culture, is going to open the “Gopnik Museum” in his native St. Petersburg

Shnur's group romanticizes the Gopniks to a middle-class audience that has finally come to appreciate them, albeit in a semi-ironic spirit that would not have been possible if the Gopniks had not disappeared. Even the original cradle of Gopniks - house 10 on Ligovsky Prospekt - today is nothing more than a three-star hotel.

Anatomy of a Gopnik

A pillbox cap is a key element of a Gopnik's outfit. Leather ones are for serious murders, stripes are for all sorts of trifles like rape in the country.

Ears - usually protrude more than those of ordinary homo sapiens, thanks to fights, as well as the indispensable haircut to zero.

Shashlik - Gopniks (like all Russians) believe that meat tastes best when it is roasted on a stick over a fire.

Sweatpants still remain the most ergodynamic for squatting.

Shoes - Gopniks prefer a) pointed leather boots or b) slippers, but as they assimilate culturally, they sometimes wear sneakers.

Glass - everyone knows that vodka tastes best when it is served warm in a glass. plastic cups. It is very important that several midges float on its surface.

Jacket - if he had a bumper sticker, it would say "Don't think I have a leather jacket."

Forehead - convex frontal lobes are inherited from distant ancestors - humans.

How to avoid becoming a victim of gopniks - instructions

“Once there was an incident at about 7 pm... My friend and I took a bottle of tonic and were standing around drinking civilly near the store, then suddenly one of the locals came up and extended his hand to say hello (like everyone else usually does).

There were the usual questions: who are you, where are you from, on what occasion are you drinking, then more people from eight different age groups joined in, everyone started asking questions about who was good at what, some about money, some about cell phones, some about concepts (some about life) ..."

Something similar has happened to almost everyone at least once. They take a person in pincers and begin to trick him - first for a conversation, then for a cigarette, then for a “call”, and in the end – for money. For many, this causes fear and confusion. What to do in such situations? How to behave when meeting with “gopniks”?

Their weapon is our fear

Our fear is that we do not know the rules by which “that” world operates. But we certainly respect them. Because these are the rules of the strong - concepts. We obviously accept them, but we do not know their principles and norms. This is where the dog is buried. We accept the rules of the game without knowing them.

Naturally, a more or less “blamed” freak, even with a measly income, knowing a couple of “tricks”, will beat you in no time. Because you agreed to play by his rules. And a person who voluntarily agreed to play by rules that he does not know is called a sucker.

Who are Gopniks

The word probably comes from the famous "gop-stop" - which in Fen means robbery or robbery.
Gopniks are not exactly criminals. They walk a fine line - first they “run into” the victim with a “bazaar” and probe. Moreover, this is done without a direct threat of violence - from the outside it will seem that the gopnik is all politeness, and you, on the contrary, are a nervous, unbalanced, or even completely aggressive type.

As a result of such a hit, the victim, as a rule, gives up his property himself - usually small money, mobile phones, watches.
Everything is often on the verge of a “joke”, a conversation “in terms of concepts”, so then during a showdown you can always say - he gave it to me himself. This is often confirmed by the victim herself.

If you are in the “cop”, then the officer begins to get nervous, or even go berserk, and, in the end, tries to get rid of you. There are no legal grounds. If there is a showdown among the lads, then you get the status of a sucker. And getting it from a sucker is a sacred thing for a gopnik. He's a kid, you're a sucker. Conceptually, he is right. The conversation is over.

How to answer questions like: “Hey, come here!”

This is a test for the Sucker suit. The sucker will certainly look back and hasten to approach.

Let's say you made a mistake, i.e. stopped and turned around, in a word, expressed some interest. But they didn’t come.
- Hey, come here, I said!
Answers like “come here yourself” are not suitable unless you are a boxing champion.
You're standing.
They come up to you. Scary.
- Don’t you hear? (frostbitten, swollen...)
Don't pay attention, freeze, like, further:

We're not suckers

Let’s say your “conversation” did not begin with a direct provocation like the one described above. In this case, usually the gopnik will extend his hand to you when he meets you and greet you like a boy. This obliges you to be moderately polite and answer the first questions. Which is what he is trying to achieve.

This is one of the main tricks of a gopnik - after such a gesture “ good will“He gets the right to “fairly” be indignant that you, for example, do not want to communicate with him. Plus, he immediately creates an alibi for himself - “I approached him like a boy, they shook him with his claws. Was it like that!?” - “Well, yes...” - “And people over there saw it. And then he started to show off for me...” Ten points in favor of the gop.

We break it off at the very beginning. It is very difficult to withstand - the look and the hand extended to you. The stencils of politeness are driven deep into us. The hand reaches out on its own. Let's hold on. Let's look it in the face. We smile.

Who are you?

The most common question asked to candidates for suckers. You don’t need to answer it, otherwise you’ll get hooked.
Important! If you are the wrong guy, that is, a sucker, then you will certainly shake the gop’s hand without even knowing who is in front of you. In prison they don’t shake hands, for example, but prison rules are sacred to a Gopnik.

Remember that during the conversation you will be asked questions in such a way that it is impossible to answer them. “Why are you walking here?”, “Why are you smiling?”

Your main task as a true sucker is NOT to stay within HIS rules, NOT to break off the gopnik using his own methods. Better try to appeal to universal morality and quote the Constitution, and then you are guaranteed to return home with a broken nose and emptied pockets.

If this option does not suit you, and you want to know how to emerge victorious from the game, then read on.

Hitting the market

If they obviously didn’t come to beat you, then what follows is part two – “a hit at the market.” In any case, if you are not yet lying on the asphalt and people are talking to you, then everything is in order.
- Who are you?
-Who are you? Where are you from?
- Let me see your phone number (do you have money? On what occasion are we drinking?)
- I do not know you.
Go (stand) further.
If this doesn't work (most likely it doesn't) and the questions continue, you need to go on the offensive:

The best defense is attack

The universal answer is that it always works:
- For what purpose are you interested?

It is important to understand and remember the main thing - in order to attack you, you need a reason. Aggression without a reason is lawlessness. They are waiting for a reason from you. As long as you don't give it, you're safe.

Under no circumstances make the slightest concession - do not answer anything. NOT ONE QUESTION, even a completely innocent one.

As soon as you answer something, even the most neutral one, and want to interrupt the conversation later, the aggressor has the “moral right” to accuse you of disrespecting himself. You “supported” the conversation, and then refuse to continue. Ugly.

Of course, you won't get a direct answer to your question. Lots of options further development:
- What, a bastard with the boys? (Are you being rude? Don't you respect me? I don't understand...)

Don't "go to the market"

You can't go off topic. Under no circumstances answer questions like “I respect you, but...”, “I’m not being rude, but...”. Your “but” will be immediately regarded as weakness; only suckers respond that way. This will be followed by the phrase “What are you making excuses for? Do you feel what?

This is 100% a trick - it doesn’t matter what you answer or just remain silent, everything will be turned as an attempt to either make excuses or be rude.

“I’m not making excuses,” look at yourself from the outside, you understand that it just sounds stupid.
- Justify it.
- Why should I justify?
- Because you are making excuses.
- Yes, I’m not making excuses!
- What are you doing now?
- I... well... fuck you! I do not want to talk to you.
- Oh, you're also a rude...

Let's break the situation

What, it's a waste of time to splurge with normal boys? is a likely response to your counterattack. Remember - no “no”, “no”, and especially “but”.
-You didn't answer my question.
- And you are on mine.
— Are you going to run into chaos?
-Are you accusing me of something?
- Answer my question. Do I have the right to ask?

Please note - just “inquire”. "Ask" has double meaning on a hairdryer - they ask someone for something that will immediately be regarded as an assault - “I have the right to ask.” - "What? Ask me? For what? Justify." That's it, it's a dead end again, you're in a bag.

— I’m interested for myself.
“I’m interested for myself” is a stock phrase-answer to the question “for what purpose are you interested?” Everything is fine. As soon as you heard something like that, the enemy wavered - you forced the “right guy” to justify himself. Now the main thing is not to go too far.

- I do not know you.
Under no circumstances should you continue this phrase: “and I’m not going to talk to you,” “why should I answer you,” “it’s none of your business.” Only stupidly neutral phrases. As long as you haven't given a formal casus belli, you're in a better position.

Hold position

The cycle can be repeated in different variations. You simply hold on to your position, the meaning of which is that whoever started the conversation must justify the reason.

In fact, there is ONE reason, and you must remember it - to provoke you and gain the moral right to attack, insult, humiliate, hit, rob. But, naturally, the “right guy” will never voice it, because then he himself admits to being a lawless person.

And this is no longer common sense - the right guys don’t cause chaos. Those. you are asking a question that he cannot answer, but, according to his own rules, he is obliged to. In chess, this is called a “fork” - we attack two pieces with one piece. The only choice the opponent has is which piece to lose.

Let's not bend

Do not comply with minor requests under any circumstances - by any standards, you can demand to state the reason first or qualify this as a direct attack. What you should say directly.

-Give me a glass.
We are silent, we smile. We are waiting for accusations...

- Are you screwed, or what?
and go on a counterattack.
- Do you want to run into me?
“I’m asking you like a normal guy.”
You earned a point, it pays off. And in front of everyone he calls you a “normal kid.” One more point.
- Ahh. I'm sorry, i do not understand. On the.

A draw on a foreign field is a victory

If you don’t want to be defeated, then the gopu has only one thing left:

1. or start beating you, which puts him in the category of offenders from the point of view of the law or into the category of lawless people from the point of view of concepts. He doesn’t need this, because the gop just wants to rise at the expense of your humiliation.

2. or “admit” that the goal was different - to get to know each other, communicate, spend time together. That is, to avoid defeat. That's what was required. A draw on a foreign field suits us quite well.

“Fork” - he already chooses only between which option of defeat to accept. Most likely he is not a fool.
- Don't know me? Well, let's get acquainted.
You can shake paws.

Don't get carried away with winning

If you feel a fracture, then you may well give him the opportunity to rehabilitate himself in your eyes and the eyes of the boys. This is what needs to be done - otherwise the feeling of defeat will most likely lead to a new wave of aggression, which cannot be stopped by the market.

How to become a victim

Everyone's normal desire normal person is to avoid street collisions. Although in some cases they are inevitable, most often people become victims of bullshit due to ignorance elementary rules"that" world.

So, what do you need to do to ensure that you are definitely beaten: Or, at worst, you are simply cheated out of money. Let's list the main mistakes:

Make excuses.
Anwser the questions.
Break into “high” tones.
Don't demand an answer to your question.
Mutter something inarticulate.
Exceed the permissible collision dose.
Fulfill requests: “let me light a cigarette (call, look at the phone number)”

Verification passed

If you don’t make a mistake, and your “opponent” doesn’t leave the battlefield himself, then you may well find new friends, or even better kents.

And if a turning point has already occurred, then maybe you shouldn’t give up on further developments - it’s quite likely that you will be offered to drink beer together and have some fun.

This often happens - if you pass the “toddler” test, you become not only an equal, but also a respected equal. In crowds of gopniks there are usually one or two “real” boys, the rest are sticky. The leader always knows this and, in general, he is not interested in them - they are his own pathetic copies.

Therefore, quite honestly and sincerely, they may want you as a friend. The choice is yours. If not, then no. They patted each other on the shoulder, and even hugged each other like brothers. The market is over, it's over.

The last and most important rule

The last and most important rule is not to turn around. Either don’t start at all, or, once you start, don’t give up.

Remember Russian fairy tales - don’t turn around. Whoever turns around loses.

Of course, this is just an outline; your creativity will always be needed. Fear will make its own adjustments, but, nevertheless, it is possible to remember this.

Amazing thing: in last years In the West, the fashion for the culture of Russian Gopniks is rapidly gaining popularity. Local youth learn to wear tracksuits, squat correctly and dance with all their might to the once fashionable musical genre Hardbass. found out how “smooth Slavic boys” gained popularity on the Internet and won the hearts of young Europeans.

Life is a rave

One of the key components of the image of an “even Slavic boy“In the West, the culture of rave has become - mass disco with dance DJ sets. Hours of energetic dancing originated in the UK back in the late 80s and instantly gained popularity in the youth underground. The quickly formed idea of ​​the movement was summed up in four letters - PLUR (peace, love, unity and respect).

Soon the phenomenon spread to continental Europe, Australia and the USA. Young people, pumped up with alcohol and various stimulants, danced wildly to acid house and techno in clubs, in abandoned warehouses, and even in open-air fields.

Rave culture reached Russia in the early 90s, but its heyday came from cult musical performers like The Prodigy, Scooter, Grid and The Shamen. Thematic festivals were held in the country, including the famous Gagarin Party and KaZantip.

One-one-one - this is Hardbass

The specific mentality of post-Soviet youth quickly led to the deformation of the PLUR idea under the influence of boyish concepts and Adidas tracksuits. This could not but irritate those who understood the origins of the rave movement. Thanks to their efforts, by the end of the 2000s, a completely new and in its own unique way appeared in Russia. musical movement Hardbass. It initially ridiculed rave gopniks who did not promote the ideas of peace, love, unity and respect.

The leitmotif of Hardbass culture was the track of the same name, based on the electronic composition "Kickin" Hard by popular Dutch DJs Klubbheads. For the first time, a video with a dance called "Sausage School" appeared on YouTube in May 2010. In the video, four young St. Petersburgers parody the ridiculous movements of rave gopniks to the accompaniment of Hardbass and claim that “butyrates and speed are worst enemies» all adherents of St. Petersburg intelligent culture.

The video quickly gained popularity, and the movement gained followers. Among them were “even boys” who did not understand irony and posted their versions of the viral dance in the thousands on YouTube. As a result, “School of Sausage” and Hardbass turned into Internet memes that went beyond the Russian segment of the network.

In 2011, fans of the movement appeared in Ukraine and the Balkans. True, unlike the founders of Hardbass, young people did not support the meme ridiculing gopniks and turned dance as a symbol of the nationalist movement. From the speakers of the Ukrainians, completely different texts sounded like “We bring Hardbass to your house, one-four, eight-eight.”

And a couple of years later, again thanks to YouTube, Hardbass began to be danced in the rest of Europe. Moreover, in youth slang The phrase Cheeki Breeki appeared, which was firmly associated with Russian “folk” dances to electronic music. The Ukrainian language played a significant role in the development of phraseological units. computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R., where bandits prowling near the Chernobyl exclusion zone dreamed of getting rich overnight using the “Chicky-Bricky - and Kings” method that became a meme.

To be an “even Slavic boy”

Impressed by the energetic dances of “smooth boys” in tracksuits, European youth began to explore an unknown subculture. As you know, demand creates supply, and guru-experts immediately appeared on YouTube, speaking in broken English about the peculiarities of the life and everyday life of the Slavic gopnik.

A striking example of such a “master mentor” was a popular comedian and blogger in Europe with the pseudonym Boris. on his YouTube channel those interested in gop culture will find full-fledged guides describing in detail how to properly sit on the courts, dance Hardbass, decorate a car in Slavic style, and cook Pelmeni, Kompot and Borshch. With no less pleasure, Boris explains why real Slavic guys prefer Adidas, talks about their values ​​and habits.

The success of Boris gave rise to a wave of similar videos, and users were able to completely immerse themselves in the mysterious world Russian gopniks and learn incredible details from the life of the “even boys”. For example, the fact that a squatting Slav must always touch the ground with his heels, because the unwritten law says: “If you tear off your heels, you don’t respect the boys.”

However, according to some guru experts, this rule only applies to your area. Finding himself in a foreign land, the “even guy” can easily rely only on his toes, because he has not yet become familiar with the situation and is not obliged to show respect to the local residents by default.

Having listened to the stories of Boris and his associates, Western youth began to imitate the Russian gopniks: sit on the courts, crack seeds and wear tracksuits, from time to time casually muttering Cheeki Breeki. Most of all, predictably, the “clear” subculture was imbued with the inhabitants of Eastern Europe, spontaneously gathering on the streets of cities and staging frenzied dances.

“Can you play the guitar?”

Gopnik culture influenced not only appearance youth, but also on the work of European musicians. Inspired by Hardbass, young performers began recording full albums with “Slavic” compositions, mercilessly distorting English pronunciation. YouTube is flooded with clips of musicians dressed in sweatpants posing as so-called “white trash.”

Classic example similar creativity became the track SLAV SQUAT (Slavic squats) by the British hip-hop group 4NBoyz. In the video, the rappers talk about how they love to squat and address the migrants from Eastern Europe leaving en masse for the West, promising to “take away their jobs.” The leitmotif of the track was the phrase “your chick will go to me when she sees me sitting on the courts.”

The topic of Russian gopniks is actively emphasized in Eastern Europe, and the Estonian rap star Tommy Cash does not deviate at all from the Slavic-patsan theme. His videos promote sportswear, used Russian cars, orthodox icons and the “white cattle” lifestyle.

The rapper's love for Russia is due to close communication with the St. Petersburg rave group Little Big, which received worldwide recognition for ridiculing stereotypes about Russian people, including the image of the Gopnik.

Boomerang

Using the example of Little Big, it can be clearly seen how the renewed subculture of “even boys” that took over Europe returned to their native St. Petersburg. The group’s work contains echoes of the same Hardbass that they danced in the city on the Neva five years ago.

Despite the fact that in Russia the fashion for Hardbass died out back in 2013, and modern gopniks and they forgot to think about rave festivals, their business not only lives on, but also captures the minds of the inhabitants of the “decaying West” that they so hate. Young people who recently changed en masse skinny jeans on plaid shirts and growing beards, they sit down with delight on the slav squat and chant the treasured Cheeki Breeki.

Such data is contained in the Report of the Center for Problem Analysis and Public Management Design, dedicated to youth subcultures in modern Russia and their socializing potential. The report was published as a separate 72-page brochure in 2014. Author of the report, O.V. Kuropatkina (Zelenova), understands “subculture” in a broad sense as “a part of culture that, in its values ​​and external forms, differs from the culture of the social majority. The main identifying features of a subculture are a special worldview, hobbies, appearance, attitude towards society, etc. “The “carriers” of the subculture are social groups.”

In total, Kuropatkina identifies 4 types of subcultures:
1) subcultural groups functioning as communal communities;
2) communities whose members regularly gather for joint activities, share shared values and quite strict rules;
3) groups that are united by common hobbies, but do not necessarily gather together;
4) communities that are united primarily by lifestyle and appearance.

The second type includes several subtypes, one of which is “semi-criminal groups” - the “Gopnik” subculture belongs to them. This is what is written about Russian gopniks in this report:

Gopniks. The number is up to 50 million people, of which 21-24 million are teenagers 14-18 years old. Subculture in modern form took shape in the USSR in the late 1980s, although it has long traditions(street punks in the USSR). The word "gopnik" comes either from the word "gop-stop" (in thieves' jargon this means "robbery") or from an abbreviation from the 1920s. GOP - City hostel of the proletariat. Gopniks themselves separate group They usually don’t stand out, preferring to call themselves “boys.” Grouped around the yard and area. Each such association has its own leader, a regional prince, who, in turn, is subordinate to the “elders” - superior criminal authorities.

Gopniks aggressively defend the “district” from “strangers,” especially from informals and “blacks.” They always attack in groups. The importance of a company of like-minded people has been elevated to a cult: any feat is good only if it is seen and appreciated by comrades. The behavior style of gopniks is arrogant, rude and aggressive. Despite the fact that gopniks are “real boys”, i.e. A purely male fraternity, their subculture, as “friends,” also includes girls who share the values ​​of Gopniks—as a rule, from poor families and without a complete secondary education. Gopniks wear cheap tracksuits, sneakers and caps - “pills” or baseball caps. Hairstyle: short haircut. Usually they listen to the so-called “Russian chanson” or “thieves’ song.” Within the gopnik subculture there are mini-subcultures - “chavs” and “half-gops”.

Chavs- the same semi-criminal group of petty hooligans who have become well-earning specialists. They wear sports-style clothes, but, unlike ordinary gopniks, they wear branded and expensive clothes.

Half-gops- respectable representatives of the middle class, trying to look no different from ordinary people, however, retaining the “gopnik” arrogant and aggressive self-confidence, narrow-mindedness and extreme pragmatism, the cult of the company of “real boys” (only these are not regional princes, but successful businessmen) and semi-prison jargon.

Actually, from this description of the “Gopniks” I didn’t learn anything new for myself; I actually read about the “Chavs” and “half-Gopniks” for the first time, but what really surprised me was the figure of 50 million Gopniks among Russians. Considering that total number Russia's population today does not exceed 150 million people, but the number of gopniks is simply off the charts. And if we take away very young children and decrepit old people from the total number, then almost every second Russian is essentially a gopnik. Maybe this is the secret of Putin’s super popularity, who also has a “boyish psychology” and likes to use dubious jokes and phrases in his speech, typical of the Gopnik subculture? Another thing is also surprising - what kind of subculture is this if there are so many gopniks among the total number of Russians?! Rather, this is already a second culture, or maybe even the main, official one... Chavs and semi-gops who have become deputies, ministers and effective managers, without any doubt or twinge of conscience, smash Russian science and culture. optimize the entire humanitarian sphere in order to curry favor with the boss. IN public speaking they use greasy obscenities like “Rashka-shit”, etc. Or is there something wrong with the 50 million figure in this report?

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"Good afternoon to all discussion participants! Thank you for your interest in the report. I would like to give some clarifications in connection with by the question asked. The introduction of the report states that there is practically no scientific data on the number of subcultures; we have to use very rough estimates. 50 million is not my data, but taken from the article to which the link is provided. The article provides very approximate data - I, as the author of the report, should have taken a more critical approach to it. I agree that the figure of 50 million is excessive - there is no verified data: after all, gopniks include not only semi-criminal teenagers, some of whom are registered, but also numerous courtyard companies, and many adults from “depressed” areas - and they can be counted very approximately. In addition, during the calculations, everyone who in one way or another fell into the field of this subculture over a long period - since the 1990s, and not until currently. This should have been specifically stated - I apologize for this omission.
A few more words about the number of Gopniks. According to self-identification (data from 2010), about 30% of young people in Russia consider themselves gopniks. Russian province[Gavrilyuk V.V. Gopniks as a phenomenon among young people // SOCIS, 2010, No. 1.]. That is, in any case we're talking about about millions of people. There is also a large “periphery” of gopnikism - students, businessmen, officials who assimilate and transmit the worldview, values ​​and behavior of gopniks. It is the transmission of “gopnik” values ​​to almost all layers Russian society and makes the Gopnik subculture so dangerous and creates the idea of ​​it as almost universal - you can see more here -