Russian mafia

Anatoly is somebody we've seen in flashbacks on the Amazo, so we'll learn more about their relationship as we go, obviously.

But he has a pretty large network of people within the Bratva that is the organization that I believe he's a big part of at this point.

But yeah, they concoct a plan of John getting arrested for trafficking drugs, obviously.

um you know felicity's not super in on this idea but once Diggle kind of explains that, you know, Lila's more than an associate, a friend, but obviously someone that he was very close with and even married to at a certain point.

But there's-

The other song, it was, uh, When I Was 22, I Joined the Russian Mafia.

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Here's how it happened.

I definitely want to talk to you about that.

W- [laughs] it's just the titles, like, uh, Slaughter is the Best Medicine, Batman.

Um, When I Was 22, I Got Involved With the Russian Mafia: Here's How It Happened.

Helping the Mongolian Find the Hotel Room.

That's the Berlin Wall.

That was like the wall in Game of Thrones, just holding in the Russian mafia.

Yeah, and then it all, yeah, you saw what happened afterwards.

It was chaos.

Isn't that crazy?

Isn't that crazy? He didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know because he's not smarter than me, so he can't know things that I don't know.

The Russian mafia was best at scams and swindles and possessed an unmatched audacity, but it was also brutal and without pity.

It had begun to create ties with the Triads and the Yakuza.

They're like a coordinating council for organized crime, a sort of shadow United Nations.

The Triads, Mafia, Yakuza, Bratva, this is where they go to join their efforts or settle disputes.

They might actually have more raw muscle at their disposal than the Illuminati, Majestic, and Templars combined if they can keep their shit together for more than five minutes.

They say the Three Harmonies were formed in the ninth century by a group of monks escaping persecution from the Tang Empire.

I had no idea that the Kozlovs would be vampires.

I just knew that Casimir was the head of the Bratva clan.

They were Russian or from the old country, and they were from Philadelphia.

That's really all I knew about the Kozlovs when I first started learning about them in The Wolves of Iron Valor.