The Gopnik subculture is notable for the fact that it appeared in the USSR, although, in fact, gopniks- this is a stratum of working youth from low-income families, and similar strata can be found literally in any country at one time or another. For example, British punks of the 1930s (not to be confused with the punk subculture of the 1960s and 1970s), which can be read in more detail 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, but the situation was as follows: in St. Petersburg, a State Charity Society was established, where street children who were engaged 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 1917 revolution, the Civil Society of the Proletariat was organized, which was used for the same purposes as the previous society. In both cases, the word "gopnik" came from the abbreviation of these institutions. Another version says that the word "gopnik" came from thieves' jargon. According to this version, thieves who are engaged in gop-stop were called gopniks (following the example of other criminal "specializations": pickpocket - "pinch", murderer - "mokrushnik", etc.). Some argue that "gopnik" comes from the acronym for "dangerous behavior citizen." However, in all these cases, any antisocial type with a thief's habits is called a gopnik. The Gopov subculture manifested itself especially sharply in the 1970s-1980s. Gopniks declared themselves in numerous fights with the then Soviet informals - punks and metalworkers. Since then, the word "gopnik" has firmly entered our lexicon.

Among the musical preferences of the Gopniks are thugs chanson, rap and low-grade pop. Gopniks cannot imagine their collective walks without listening to their favorite music. Soviet gopniks listened to music on battery-operated cassette recorders. Gopnik, who carried a "mafon" with him, was held in special respect among the "Kents". Nowadays, gopniks listen to music from mobile phones. Today's gopniks are passionate fans of the creativity of such groups as Factor-2, Gaza, Butyrka, Leningrad, Casta, Bachelor Party and performers Noggano, rapper Syava, etc.
Thus, all the signs of a separate Gopnik subculture are evident - their ideological principles, musical tastes, their own style of dress, as well as an incomparable style of behavior. A low level of moral and aesthetic development, a low spiritual level of gopniks determines the appropriate behavior. Young people who want to live "according to their concepts" put on a "clear" tracksuit and go to drink beer with the "boys". And what is the saddest thing is that the number of such applicants does not decrease at all.

1. One by one, it comes from the slang designation of a robber. Dahl's dictionary mentions the word "Gop" which expresses a jump, jump or blow; | interjection. knock, slap. Tell me how you jump! not before. Gop, jump, jump, jump; gag, jump or hit. -sia, flop, fall. Gop or gopka! will command. jump, jump. Since street robbers used to suddenly attack ("jump, jump") on their victim, often hitting it in order to stun and make it impossible to escape / resist, their crime in the criminal environment began to be called gop, gopstop or gop-skok , and themselves - gopniks or gopstopniks. It is not surprising that over time, representatives of the criminalized part of the Soviet, and then post-Soviet youth began to be called that, for whom gop-stop, i.e. Sudden attacks on bystanders with the intent of robbery was a common practice.
2. There is also another version. Back in the 19th century in Russia there were "Urban Prizator Societies" (GOP), i.e. cares, cares in which there were shelters for the homeless, crippled, orphans, etc. Those who were kept in these shelters began to be called gopniks. The GOP contingent was prone to committing crimes, incl. the words "gop" and "gopnik" quickly took on a negative connotation. Gopami began to be called a shelter or being in a shelter, and by gopniks they meant people descended from the social lower classes, prone to vagrancy and committing crimes. There were many adolescents and young people among those detained in GOPs. It is not surprising that gradually the word gopnik began to be associated with the criminal youth.
3. Third version. Linguists who study the traditions of thieves are sure that a "gopnik" is a person who commits a "gop-stop". What it is? This is how the “hair dryer” refers to a lightning-fast street robbery, when the victim is “taken to fear”. Hence the "thug" idiom - "take on gop-stop." Interestingly, as early as the 19th century, “gop-stop” was called “gop with a closure”. “Gop” means a jump, an unexpected blow, and “close” comes from the verb “close” (“sniff”) - “move quickly”. In other words, the tactic of a "gopnik" consists of an unexpected attack on the victim and a quick escape.
4. Another option is a down-and-out drunkard or bootlegger. However, there are facts that in some thieves' communities, back in the 20-30s of the last century, gopniks were not called street robbers at all, but drunken drunks. Supporters of this version claim that the word "gopnik" comes from the word "gop", which imitates a click on the neck. Every Russian knows this gesture - it means “to put on the collar”. It is interesting that this gesture was used by speculators in alcoholic beverages during the "dry law", which Nicholas II established in the Russian Empire in 1914. A number of linguists are sure that initially they were called “gopniks”, and then the word spread to their “clients”.

Where did you come from?

It is not too difficult to understand this - it is enough to remember that a significant percentage of the inhabitants of Russia have at least once visited places not so remote. Now think for yourself what a "wonderful" upbringing the children of these people receive. In combination with the atmosphere of the outskirts of cities, the soil is created for more and more generations of hereditary punks and criminals. When the economy and the system of social values ​​began to rapidly collapse in the late 1980s, this resulted in an increase in crime, including street crime. Until the mid-90s in the ex-USSR there was an intensive redistribution of property and power, including by means of organized crime groups, which carried their "culture" to the masses and trained personnel, many of whom had time to undergo training in prisons and colonies. A significant part of these bandits, swindlers and their protégés later became businessmen, civil servants, deputies, which led to a high level of corruption in Russia and the criminalization of entrepreneurship. Having gone through socialization, having received administrative resources and wishing to preserve their "honestly acquired" and reduce the population of competitors, the former fraudsters further contributed to the squeezing of crime, especially small and young, which led to its decline by the end of the 90s. The increase in gopota also contributes a lot to television, which shows the "Brigade" and other "Sonya-golden pens". In particular, in one of Pimanov's programs, they showed how in the early 90s in the Agiyevskaya organized criminal group the film "The Godfather" was used to train personnel.

Characteristics of the subculture

Researcher of the Gopnik subculture - employee of the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Management of the Kazan State Technical University named after A. N. Tupoleva notes:“The City Center for the Prevention of Neglect and Drug Addiction of Minors in St. Petersburg designates gopniks as“ informal associations ”and includes them in the“ aggressive ”section. Discussions on Internet forums speak of the level of development of these informal associations as follows: “... from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, gopniks are still the most common form of youth associations”, and all sources used emphasize the pronounced criminal and group nature of this subculture: “These are mainly fights, robberies, assaults that are aimed at making money ..., alcohol and cigarettes “” Unlike most informal youth associations (for example, hippies, punks, role-playing), gopniks did not assign any names to the rest of the population and did not distinguish themselves into a separate group in relation to the entire population, of which it follows that they were not aware of themselves as a subculture. Most youth subcultures are characterized by rejection of gopniks, reaching the extreme antagonism.

Stereotypical appearance

So, the following features are noted:

• Tracksuit, as the most common clothing in the summer, and includes pants and a jacket made of synthetic material. As noted, most often these are the counterfeit products of well-known brands (for example, Adidas or Puma) purchased on the market. Less often - classic black trousers, often a little larger than necessary;
• A short jacket made of leather, leatherette or fabric, or a vest of the same materials over a tracksuit. Often the collar is set in a "stand-up" position, and is also often tucked into the trousers;
• Of the hats, preference is given to the “pill” cap (“eight-piece” cap or baseball cap). There is such a feature: the hat is not removed indoors, but is worn on the top of the head in such a way that it rests on the ears from behind and does not cover them.
• A typical haircut is “bald” or very short, sometimes with bangs (“half-box”). · Wearing a "beard" is also typical. Often, representatives of the subculture are associated with a package of seeds, beads and a balisong knife.

Other distinctive features

Many pieces of music are dedicated to gopniks. One of the first mentions of gopniks was recorded in the song of Leonid Utyosov - "Gop with a closure" from his repertoire 1929-1933. The most widely known was the song "Gopniks" by Mike Naumenko and the group "Zoo" (1984). One of the verses of the song characterizes the behavior of the gopniks:

Who whips port wine in the heat, who doesn't warm beer in winter, Who spits like a camel, who laughs like a nightjar? Who shits in our front doors, who vomits in the subway cars, Who is always ready to knock our eyes out and stick a feather in your side? These are gopniks! They prevent us from living! "

Subsequently, several cover versions were recorded for the song "Zoo" by a variety of performers: "DDT", "The Last Tanks in Paris", "Different People", "Az", "FRONT" and others.

Among the songs of famous performers telling about gopniks:

• "Children of Satan" by Bad Balance
• "Go ahead" of the group "Lumen"
• "Street Fight" and "Until the Last Drop of Blood" by the group "Nothing Good"
• "Dogs from the outskirts of the city" by the "Chaif" group (the name of the song is often used as a common noun to refer to youth street crime)
• "Gop-stop" of the "Sector of gas attack" group
• "Gopnik" of the group "Ben Gunn"
• "Down with Gopotu" by the group "Brigadny Podryad" and a cover version of this song, recorded by the soloist of the group "King and Jester" Mikhail Gorshenyov (album "I am an Alcoholic Anarchist"). On the other hand, in the genre of thieves' songs, gopniks and their activities are described with sympathy. Among such songs one can distinguish "Gop-stop" (known in the performance of Alexander Rosenbaum) and "Gop with a closure" (known in the performance of Andrei Makarevich and Alexei Kozlov).

In the 2000s, artists appeared, all of whose work is devoted to parodying typical devil's and their hooligan behavior in the style of the so-called "kid rap": the groups "Gopota", "Gopnik" (Ukraine), "Chornye GUN Dons", "abibas", "Night Dogs", as well as performer Rapper Syava. David Brown dedicated the new Brazzaville album "Teenage Summer Days" to Russian gopniks.

Why are gopniks squatting?

The squatting pose, like many other attributes of the gop-style, comes from prison customs and has been known since the days of pre-revolutionary Russia. When transporting prisoners, the escorts, in order to prevent unwanted actions from the prisoners, traditionally commanded: “Hands up the hill! Everyone squat down! " It is easier to predict the intentions of a squatting person, but this position gives the prisoners an opportunity to rest, because at the stage, in the short minutes of a smoke break, it is more convenient to squat than on frozen ground or in the mud.

It is also difficult to find a sitting place in an overcrowded jail cell, so the prisoner has no choice but to spend time squatting. Very soon, this posture becomes so firmly a habit that it can be difficult to get rid of it even in freedom. Former inmates often recognize each other from afar precisely out of the habit of squatting.

Lurkmore's interpretation:
Gopniks- a lower multicellular, a fiddler from the criminal world, a petty street criminal, a specimen of one of the types of street animals along with cats and dogs, whose main activity is pushing up lava and mobile phones from passers-by, petty theft and fraud, and, of course, a favorite hobby - beating suckers.

"gop-stop" - which means robbery or robbery in the phene, ie open seizure of material assets. Robbery - with weapons, robbery - without.

Interpretation on Wikipedia:
Gopniks(also - gopa, gopari, collectively - gopota, gopoten, gopyo) is a slang word in the Russian language, a derogatory designation for representatives of the urban stratum of youth close to the criminal world or with criminal behaviors, often originating from disadvantaged families. The term is widely used in Russia and the countries of the former USSR.

So, how to behave when meeting with "gopniks"?

Rabbits and boas: Their weapons are 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 respect the world of the strong, the world of thieves and authorities. But direct access there is closed, a complete set of concepts is not available to a mere mortal. We deliberately accept them, but we do not know their principles and norms. Here the dog is buried. We accept the rules of the game without knowing them. Naturally, a slightest bit of a "cheesy" freak, being even a puny income, knowing a couple of "gadgets", will beat you in no time. Because you agreed to play by his rules. And a person who voluntarily agreed to play by the rules that he does not know is called a sucker.

Who are the gopniks.
The word, so it must be understood, comes from the well-known "gop-stop" - which in the phene means robbery or robbery, i.e. open seizure of material assets. Robbery - with weapons, robbery - without.

Gopniks are not exactly criminals. They follow a fine line - at first they "run over" the victim with a "bazaar", probe it, cause fear and confusion. Moreover, this is done without a direct threat of violence - from the outside it will seem that the gopnik is politeness itself, and you, on the contrary, are a nervous, unbalanced, or even completely aggressive type. As a result of such a run-in, the victim, as a rule, gives up his property himself - usually little money, mobile phones, watches. Although for a gopnik this is not the main thing - he may not take anything from you. It is important for him to feel his superiority. Make you afraid of him.

Everything is often on the verge of a "joke", a conversation "by concepts", so then, during the showdown, you can always say - he gave it to me himself. Which is often confirmed by the victim herself:

Well, yes, I gave it to them myself ...
- Why?
- I don’t know ...
- Did they threaten you? They said that they would beat, take away?
- No, they didn't. Well, there ... well, they said who was this in life ...
- Then why did you give it to them?
- I do not know...

If you are in the police, then the opera starts to get nervous, if not outraged, and, in the end, tries to get rid of you. There is no legal basis. If the showdown among the lads, then you get the status of a sucker. And getting from a sucker is a sacred thing for a gopnik. He's a kid, you sucker. By concepts, he is right. The conversation is over.

How to answer questions like: "Hey, come here!"
This is a direct invitation to war - i.e. the war is already underway. Psychological. The main thing is not to chicken out and not rush to approach, even if you are clearly inferior in strength. Although you shouldn't openly demonstrate your coolness. The one who starts must justify his actions. Therefore, if you are only probed in this way, then you need to transfer the "conversation" to another channel.

So, according to the situation - stop or turn, in a word, express some interest. Don't come close.

Hey, come here, I said!

Answers like "come here yourself" are not good, as you can imagine, unless you are a boxing champion.
Wait.

Come up to you. Fearfully.

Can't you hear? (frostbitten, swollen ...)

Do not pay attention, freeze, like, further:

Can I help you?

We are not suckers
If your "conversation" did not begin with a direct provocation like the one described above, then usually a gopnik will reach out to you when they meet - he greets you like a kid. This obliges you to be moderately polite, to answer the first questions. Which is what he wants. This is one of the main gopnik's tricks - after such a gesture of "goodwill" he gets the right to "justly" be indignant that you, for example, do not want to communicate with him. Plus, he immediately creates an alibi for himself - "I drove up to him like a kid, shook him with my claws. Was that how it was !?" - "Well, yes ..." - "And people saw it. And then he began to build show-offs for me ...". 1: 0 in favor of the hop.

We break off at the very beginning. It is very difficult to bear - a look and an outstretched hand to you. Stencils of politeness are hammered into us deeply. The hand stretches itself. We hold on. We look in the face. We smile.

I know that this is difficult, especially if your opponent is clearly stronger than you or there is a crowd behind him. But you DO have the RIGHT TO DO IT. The right kid will not shake hands with the first comer without first knowing who is in front of him. In prison they don’t shake hands at all, for example - and the rules of the prison are sacred for a gopnik. And you don't have to reap the first paw that comes along. "Or maybe you are not a kid at all - who knows you" - you hint. But you are hinting that he has no right to accuse you of something. And besides, he suspects that you know the rules of the game.

Your main task is to remain within the framework of HIS rules, to break off the gopnik by his own methods - you should not appeal to universal human morality and quote the Constitution. This is the gopnik's trump card, that he imposes his own rules on you and makes you play by them on his field. So that's what we do - we play with a serious air in the proposed game.

Bazaar hit
If you obviously did not come to beat, then the second part follows - "hitting by the bazaar". In any case, if you are not yet lying on the pavement, and conversations are talking to you, then everything is in order. In fact, if they are not afraid of you, then at least they are afraid.

Who are you, where are you from?
-... let me look at the phone number.
-...have money?
-... why do we drink?
-... who are you in life?

Freezing.(May be missed)
So. Smile ALWAYS and say:

If it didn’t work (most likely it didn’t) and the questions continue, and the intonation intensifies, then you need to go on the offensive:

The best defense is offense.
The universal answer is that it always works:

For what purpose are you interested?

It is important to understand and remember the main thing - you need a reason to attack you. Aggression for no reason is lawlessness. A reason is expected from you. Until you give it, you are safe.

In no case should you make the slightest concession - not answer anything. NOT ONE, even if completely innocent, QUESTION. As soon as you answered something, even the most neutral, but in essence of the question, and want to interrupt the conversation later, the aggressor has a "moral right" to accuse you of disrespect for himself, that is, get this very right to take tough action. After all, you "supported" the conversation, and then refuse to continue. Not pretty.

Of course, you will not get a direct answer to your question. A lot of options for further development:

And what, zapadlo with the boys pobazar?
- Are you being rude?
- You do not respect me?
- I did not understand...

Never make excuses
In all cases, you need to "stupidly" continue your theme. In no case, again (see above) do not answer the questions - "I respect you, but ...", "I am not rude, but ...". Your "but" will be immediately regarded as weakness. If the phrase "What are you making excuses for? Do you feel something behind you?" or something similar to it, then you will have nothing to answer to it. This is a 100% trick - it doesn't matter what you answer or just keep quiet, 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 yourself understand that it sounds just stupid. But, nevertheless, speak up.
- Justify.
- Why should I justify?
- Because you are making excuses.
- Yes, I am not making excuses!
- What are you doing now?
- I ... well ... well, you! I do not want to talk to you.
- Oh, you are also rude ...

We break the situation.
- What, zapadlo with normal (!) Boys to play? is the likely response to your counterattack.

Remember - no "no", "not", and even more "but".

You haven't answered my question.

It will not be superfluous to continue to smile.

And you on mine.
- Are you going to run into the lawlessness?
- Are you accusing me of something?
- Answer my question. May I ask you?

Pay attention - just "inquire". "To ask" has a double meaning on a hairdryer - they ask someone for something that will immediately be regarded as hitting - "I have the right to ask." - "What? Ask me? Why? Justify." Everything, again a dead end, you are in a bag.

I'm interested in myself.

"I am interested for myself" - the usual phrase-answer to the question "for what purpose are you interested?" Everything is fine. As soon as you heard something like this, the enemy flinched - you made the "right kid" make excuses. Now the main thing is not to go too far.

I do not know you.

In no case should I 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. Until you give a formal reason for war, you are in a better position.

We stop smiling, with all our looks we show that the conversation is over.

Hold positions
The cycle can be repeated in different variations. You just hold on to your position, the meaning of which is - WHO STARTED THE TALK, THAT SHOULD PROVIDE THE REASON.

In fact, there is ONE reason, and you must remember about it - to PROMOTE YOU AND GET THE MORAL RIGHT to attack, insult, humiliate, hit, take away. But, naturally, the "correct kid" will never voice it, because then he himself recognizes himself as an outrageous person. And this is no longer according to concepts - the right guys do not mend lawlessness. Those. you ask a question that he cannot answer, but, according to his own rules, must. In chess, this is called a "fork" - we attack two pieces with one piece. The only choice left to the opponent is which piece to lose.

The fact is that to admit that the purpose of the slide was to run over, as you understand, it is impossible. Gopnik must comply with the laws of thieves' diplomacy and remain within the law. To remain silent or to leave - in fact, means tacitly admitting that everything was exactly the way it was. And this is to sink in the eyes of your comrades and your own.

This is your clear victory. But no one wants to be defeated, although such a turn of events is quite likely. The admission of defeat, of course, can be compensated by insults or promises to "meet again" - this is the last attempt to provoke you. We are just silent.

Do not bend
In no case do you fulfill small requests - by any concept, you can demand to state the reason first, or qualify it as a direct hit. What you have to say directly.

Give me a glass.
-...

We are silent, we smile. We are waiting for accusations ...

You bastard, or what?

And we go to the counterattack.

Checking for a Lokhov suit? (or: - Do you want to run over me?)
- I ask you as a normal kid.

You have earned a point, it is justified. And he calls you a "normal kid" in front of everyone. One more point.

Ah. Sorry, did not get it. On.

A draw on a foreign field is a victory.
If you do not want to be defeated, then the gopu has only one thing to do -

1. either start beating you, which puts him in the category of offenders from the point of view of the law or in the category of lawlessness from the point of view of concepts. He does not need this, because the gop only wants to be promoted at the expense of your humiliation.

2. either "admit" that the goal was different - to get to know each other, to communicate, to spend time together. That is, to avoid defeat. Which was required. A draw on a foreign field suits us perfectly.

"Fork" - he already chooses only between which variant of defeat to accept. Most likely he is not a fool.

Don't you know me? Well, let's get to know each other.

You can shake your paws.

Don't get carried away with victory
If you feel a fracture, then you may well give him the opportunity to rehabilitate himself in your own eyes and the eyes of the boys. This must be done - otherwise the feeling of defeat will most likely lead to a new wave of aggression, which cannot be stopped by the bazaar.

After the acquaintance, however, cycles of the same answers and questions may follow again, and the acquaintance itself was just a trick - you just need to be Vigilant and in no case relax. No matter how many such cycles there are, your task is one - not to provide a reason. I repeat - this means:

Don't make excuses.
Don't answer questions.
Do not fulfill requests
Do not fall for "high" tones - remain polite and calm.
Continue to demand an answer to your question.
Asking "uncomfortable" questions.

We smile
Note - we smile. It is important. It is confusing, makes the attacker nervous. This makes him fearful and act cautiously - "why is he pressing his lyba? Maybe he knows what? And he mows like a fool ..."

Even...
If you have met complete thugs, then you will not have to talk for a long time. But in reality, such specimens are extremely rare - this is a mental pathology. Almost everyone has a taboo on unreasonable aggression. Those. you always need a reason, no matter how funny or far-fetched. The concepts speak about the same.

Even if you suffer, then, firstly, keep your dignity, respect in the person of friends and yourself. And even enemies, which means a lot in the future. And, secondly, both the law and the concepts are on your side, and you may well demand satisfaction, gaining strength, for example, in the form of support from friends. You are no longer a goof, but a warrior who has just lost the battle, but not the whole war.

Errors
There are two possible strategic mistakes:
- fear will prevail and you will surrender, starting to mumble something inarticulate and willingly give everything that is "asked" of you.
- you will feel like a horse and decide to build on your success by exceeding the allowable dose of hitting - most likely, in this case, you will be beaten.

Check passed
If you do not make a mistake, and your "opponent" does not knock him off the battlefield, then you may well find new friends, or even better Kents.

And if the turning point has already occurred, then maybe you shouldn't give up on the further development of events - it is likely that you will be offered to drink beer together, have some fun.

It's not for nothing that this person came up to you. Nothing random happens in the world.

This happens quite often - if the test for "boyhood" is passed, you become not only an equal, but also a respected equal. In the crowds of gopniks there are usually one or two "real" guys, the rest are sticky. The leader always knows this and, in general, is not interested in him with them - these are his pitiful copies.

Therefore, you quite honestly and sincerely may want to be friends.

The choice is yours. If not, then no. They patted each other on the shoulder, or even hugged each other like brothers. The bazaar is over, consumption.

The last and most important rule
Even if it's scary, remember these simple rules, and do not deviate from them. Because the last and most important rule is not to turn around. Either do not start at all, or, once started, do not give up.

Remember Russian fairy tales - don't turn around. Who turned back - lost.

Of course, this is just a canvas, you will always need your creativity. Fear will make its own adjustments, but, nevertheless, it is possible to REMEMBER.

Vitaly Lozovsky.
A view from the prison.
www.tyurem.net

Gopniks(also gopy, gopari, collectively - gopota , gopote, gopyo- a slang word in the Russian language denoting representatives of the urban stratum of low social status, poorly educated and lacking moral values, aggressive-minded youth (adolescents), having criminal behavior (less often close to the criminal world), often originating from dysfunctional families, and uniting on the basis of counterculture (informal subculture). The term is widely used in Russia and the countries of the former USSR (since the end of the 20th century).

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Characteristic

In social terms, the representatives of the subculture come mainly from the outskirts of industrial cities. Most of the gopniks came from dysfunctional, poor families. Such moral values ​​as honesty, loyalty, respect, politeness, hard work are alien to them. They are, as a rule, cunning and mercantile, cheating, prone to meanness, betrayal, ingratiation, hypocrisy and dirty tricks. The image and behavior of a typical gopnik is a parody of representatives of the criminal world of the 1990s in Russia and other CIS countries. The black leather jacket and tracksuit were also taken over by the teens. Gopniks were engaged in petty theft, extortion of money, robberies and beatings of bystanders (especially at night).

They do not call themselves "gopniks" and are usually characterized by the self-name "normal boys", "real boys" or "correct boys". The word "gopnik" in relation to themselves is considered humiliating. The gopniks oppose themselves to the so-called. "Suckers", however, among the Gopniks, there is no clear definition of "sucker". In this regard, the name "goof" is used by gopniks, depending on whether it is profitable for the gopnik or not, and can even be applied to other gopniks. In addition, representatives of the Gopnik stratum are distinguished by pronounced aggression against members of society who have a higher social status in comparison with Gopniks, as well as against other representatives of society, whose worldview is focused on a progressive lifestyle, intelligence, etc. "Western values" (for example, against Western culture-oriented "informals", "oppositionists").

The word became widespread in the late 1980s in relation to those representatives of the youth for whom theft of property on the street was, as the Saratov researcher Elena Bessonova notes, "Part of the image, a means of entertainment and a way of maintaining authority"... According to the researcher, in the 1990s, “gopas” appeared, for whom everything characteristic of the life of their “progenitors”, to whom the author refers to criminals, became "A kind of philosophy of life, a worldview, a way to position oneself in society"... However, Bessonova notes that, unlike criminals, “ For the modern gopa, it is mainly more important to try to frighten and humiliate a person, to make an attempt to test his power over him, and only then - to appropriate his money". The proximity to the criminal world predetermined the use of thieves' jargon and profanity.

Unlike most informal youth associations (for example, hippies, punks, rockers), the gopniks did not assign any names to the rest of the population and did not distinguish themselves as a group separate from the rest of the population, from which it follows that they did not perceive themselves as a subculture.

Researcher Elena Bessonova notes that at the beginning of Perestroika, the Gopniks were the only subcultures of the youth environment who were not fond of any music. Later, representatives of the subculture became inclined towards thieves' music, Russian chanson (Mikhail Krug, the Butyrka group, Sergei Nagovitsyn). Also, many people prefer "pop" (pop music), "pump" (pumping house) and "kid rap".

As the candidate of sociological sciences Ramil Khanipov notes, “The City Center for the Prevention of Neglect and Drug Addiction of Minors in St. Petersburg designates gopniks as“ informal associations ”and includes them in the“ aggressive ”section. Discussions on Internet forums speak of the level of development of these informal associations as follows: “... from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, gopniks are still the most widespread form of youth associations”, and all sources used emphasize the pronounced criminal and group nature of this subculture: “Mostly these are fights , robberies, assaults aimed at getting money ..., alcohol and cigarettes "" .

In 2009, Larisa Pautova, Doctor of Sociology, Director of the New Generation Project of the Public Opinion Foundation, believed that “gopota” is at least 25 percent of today's youth. A sociologist means by this word people who are not striving for anything, without any moral values, who find themselves in the mass of their own kind.

The head of the Moscow branch of the Liberal Democratic Party O. Lavrov stated that the Gopniks constitute a certain part of the electoral base of his party:

Specific traits

At the end of the 19th century, in the premises of the modern Oktyabrskaya Hotel, located on Ligovsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, the State Prize Society (GOP) was organized, where street children and adolescents engaged in petty robbery and hooliganism were delivered. After the October Revolution of 1917, the State hostel of the proletariat was organized in this building for the same purposes. The number of juvenile delinquents in this area has increased several times. Among the inhabitants of the city, the word "gopniks" appeared, which was used to refer to the inhabitants of the GOP from Ligovka. The expression “the number of gopniks is measured in leagues” appeared, and among the inhabitants of Petrograd, then Leningrad, it was customary to ask ill-mannered people: "Do you live on Ligovka?" .

1. aggressive teenager
2. primitive, uneducated young man
3. student of class "G" (in the jargon of schoolchildren)

The philologist E. N. Kalugina agrees with her, noting that the word "gopnik" can be called " a primitive, poorly educated young man". Sociologist Albina Garifzyanova characterizes gopniks as "uneducated people, culturally backward, absolutely intolerant." Russian sociologists V. I. Dobrenkov and A. I. Kravchenko noted that the word "gopnik" is derived from the word gop- a slang word for beggars who have absorbed the elements of criminal culture, and denoting "stay in a shelter."

A. A. Sidorov notes that the word "gopnik" is also used to mean "beggars, vagabonds, homeless people." According to Sidorov, this meaning arose even before the 1917 revolution, when in Russia there were "orders of public charity" - provincial committees, which were in charge of caring for the "beggars, cripples, sick, orphans, etc." special care homes at the expense of zemstvo funds. In this sense, the word "gopnik" comes from the word GOP, which stands for "Urban Prizewinning Society" (from the word ghost- care, care). Due to the fact that the funds allocated to help the poor and the homeless were not enough, the inhabitants of the priest's houses were engaged in vagrancy, begging, petty theft. Therefore, the word "gopnik" soon began to be called "vagabonds, ragamuffins and beggars." This meaning persisted after the October Revolution of 1917. According to the publication "The Great Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language" (editor-in-chief S. A. Kuznetsov) gopnik - " a person from the social bottom; tramp". Philologist T. F. Efremova, the word "gopnik" means " a fallen man, a vagabond» .

Concepts closely related: urla, hooligans, punks, courtyard gangs, lumpen. [ ]

The word "gopnik" has an analogue in English: "chav" (English - chav)- a widely used derogatory slang word denoting a young man with a low social status, who usually wears “branded” sportswear, which is also typical for gopniks in the post-Soviet space.

In addition, there is a version that the word “gopniks” is taken from the cult samizdat science fiction story “Journey to Black Uhura”, which describes the “planet of gopniks” as the personification of world evil. Popularizer of this word at the end of the XX century Mike Naumenko in one of interview directly said that he got this word from the work of A. Startsev and A. Didykin. [ ]

Using the word as a political cliché

Since the end of the first decade of the 21st century, a new ideological cliché “jubilant gopota” has begun to sound in the media in the speeches of Russian journalists, writers, as well as opposition politicians. With the help of this epithet, they characterized the members of various youth mass organizations supporting the political course of the authorities. It first appeared on January 29, 2008 in the Kommersant newspaper in an article about the Nashi movement.

On February 2, 2008, writer and TV and radio presenter Viktor Shenderovich, in his author's radio program "Processed Cheese", ironically plays up a new epithet:

The phrase was actively used later by the media, politicians and bloggers, and if initially it was used only in a negative way in relation to the Nashi movement, then it began to be used more widely.

On September 19, 2009, in an article by columnist Pavel Svyatenkov, the term "jubilant gopot" means "a reactionary force standing in the way of a coup."

On October 10, 2009, a number of regional portals published an article dedicated to the conflict between the editors of the Kaliningrad information site and the former head of the local branch of the Walking Together youth movement and a participant in the Seliger 2009 forum, Konstantin Minich, which was titled “Control over“ Kaliningrad. Ru "is trying to get a" jubilant gopota "".

Reflection in popular culture

In movie

• Boys is a 1983 film.
• American is a 1997 film.
• "My Name Is Arlecchino" is a 1988 film.
• Odyssey 1989 is a 2003 film.
• "Boomer. The second film "2006.
• Boys of Steel is a 2004 Russian TV series.
• "The Racketeer" is a 2007 film.
• Alien is a 2010 film.
• "Real Boys" is a 2010 Russian television series. This series causes a lot of controversy regarding whether it was filmed for gopniks or is a satire on their lives. The creators of the series took a neutral position, stating that "real guys" are "real" because "they live according to real, not fictional, life scenarios."
• “Give the youth! "- Russian sketch show (characters Bashka and Rusty).
• "Gop-Stop" is a 2010 film.
• "University. New hostel "- TV series 2011 (characters Ivanych (Maxim Ivanov) and Kisel (Alexey Kiselev)).
• The Winter Path is a 2013 film.
• "The Law of the Stone Jungle" is a 2015 Russian crime television series.
• "All at once" - film 2014.
• A documentary film from the series "The investigation was conducted ..." entitled "Death Wish", dedicated to a soldier who killed hooligans and gopniks.

In literature

• "Gopniks" is a book (story and 6 stories) by the Belarusian writer Vladimir Kozlov.

In music

Many pieces of music are dedicated to gopniks. One of the first mentions of gopniks was noted in Leonid Utyosov's song "Gop with a closure" from his repertoire of 1929-1933.

The song "Gopniks" by Mike Naumenko and the group "Zoo" () became widely known. One of the verses of the song describes the behavior of the gopniks:

Among the songs narrating about gopniks:

"Gopota" is the name of a musical group from St. Petersburg.

Foreign counterparts

• Chav - in the UK
• Dresyars - in Poland
• Azzie (short for antisocial) - in Germany
• Nackers - in Ireland
• Bogans - in Australia
• Cani - in Spain
• Niero - in Colombia
• Rakai - in France
• Yankees - in Japan
• Arsy - in Israel

see also

Notes (edit)

1. , Gopota, -y, well, collect. Aggressive adolescents, p. 55.
2. , Gopnik, -a, m. 1. more often pl. Aggressive teenager. 2. A primitive, uneducated young man. 3. Sk. Pupil of class "G", p. 55.
3. , with. 114.
4. Elena Bessonova. Don't say "gop" until you jump over it ... // www.rasklad.ru
5. Pavel Kanygin. Gopniks // Novaya Gazeta, No. 33, May 12, 2008
6. Khanipov R.A."Gopniks" - the meaning of the concept, and elements of representation of the "Gopniks" subculture in Russia // "Social Identities in Transforming Societies"
7. Modern youth // Moscow is speaking, October 16, 2009
8. Mark Ames and Yasha Levin.

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 reigned supreme in all 11 time zones in Russia. Gopniks - or Russian men who adopted the style of Gopniks - flooded into all areas of life, from "business", where they played the role of sixes, to politics, where they formed the core of resistance to Western influence. ...

Gopnik(gop. races. normal kid; goper, gopar, gop, gopota, punks, gopson; in post-revolutionary Petrograd - a resident of the City Hostel of the Proletariat (the current hotel "Oktyabrskaya", according to contemporaries, who polls walked in red socks and were identified by them) - a lower multicellular, a fiddler from the criminal world, but in fact - a punks, a petty street criminal and a redneck larva, a specimen of one of the types of street animals (cats, dogs, gopniks, etc.), whose main hobby is push-ups from passers-by and cell phones, well and of course to pop emo and others. In the west, gopniks call themselves hooligans.

The appearance of gopniks for our readers is not difficult: these are such Russian guys like "don't put your finger in your mouth" with pimply skin and dull faces, on which only one thought is reflected "yes I put on you!"

“These guys are more comfortable squatting than standing. But, most importantly, these are the last males on planet Earth who manage to wear leather gangster caps from the 1920s with style - everyone else in such caps looks like fagots from drama school rehearsing a 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 daring tastes: a mixture of tastelessness, threat and the inherent "third world" loud chic.

Even the fact that gopniks like to play techno to the fullest, sing shitty karaoke songs in cheap cafes with color music, or wear cheap pointed leather boots to match their 1920s ragtime ragtime pill caps, can't take away their status as the most dangerous. scum in the world.

History of the word, culture of gopniks

About the word: there are few terms that are one hundred percent consistent with the designated object. "Gop" sounds spiteful, 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 community of the proletariat." Add to "G.O.P." the suffix "nickname" - 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 even landless rolling peel.

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

Since they were outsiders in their villages, often children from single-parent families, and many already had minor crimes, if not worse, the indigenous population of Petrograd, and then Leningrad, treated the Gopniks with disgust.

They entered legends as blatars and lucky ones, which 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, a jacket made of thick leather, stupid leather boots and a pill cap.

1990s - the heyday of gopniks

In the 1990s, it seemed that the gopniks would soon take over, if not the whole world, then at least one-sixth of the land. "Gopniks ruled the show in all 11 time zones of Russia." formed the core of resistance to Western influence "

Some gopniks changed their leather jackets and "sweatshirts" for brown blazers from Hugo Boss, but could not resist complementing this splendor with shiny cartoons: gold chains on the arms and neck, fancy watches and so on. 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 the Gopniks survived to this day?

To explore the culture of contemporary gopniks, the newspaper's correspondents traveled to Lyubertsy, a city that was known as the capital of gopniks in the 1990s. 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 get out to one of the most ominous districts of Moscow, Brateevo, but the gopniks were not found 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 available everywhere.

Their introduction into a culture as fearless and primitive as the gopnic one meant that in one decade, almost half of the individuals passed away.

"The second reason has more to do with changes in the environment. The arrival 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 the 70-year reign of the Gopnik as the king of the rebel world has suddenly come to an end: Russians of all social layers quickly hated the gopnik man's aesthetics. "

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

Shnur's group romanticizes the gopniks in front of a middle-class audience that finally appreciates them, albeit in a semi-ironic spirit that would not have been possible if the gopniks hadn't disappeared. Even the original cradle of gopniks - house 10 on Ligovsky Prospect - today is nothing more than a three-star hotel.

Anatomy of a gopnik

A pill cap is a key element of a gopnik outfit. Leather - for violent murders, stripes - for all sorts of trifles such as rape in the country.

Ears - usually protruding more than a regular homo sapiens, thanks to fights, as well as the obligatory haircut to zero.

Shish kebab - Gopniks (like all Russians) believe that meat is tastier than anything when it is fried on a stick over a fire.

Sweatpants are still the most ergodynamic for squatting.

Shoes - gopniks prefer a) pointed leather shoes or b) slippers, but as cultural assimilation sometimes wear sneakers.

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

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

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

How not to become a victim of gopnik - instructions

"Once there was a case at 7 pm ... We took a bottle of tonic with a friend and stood culturally, drank near the store, then suddenly one of the locals came up, pulling his hand to say hello (as usual).

There were the usual questions: who are, where, on what occasion do you drink, then another eight different age groups pulled up, everyone began to ask questions, who was good at what, who was about money, who was about cell phones, who were about concepts (who were in life) ... "

Something like this has happened to almost everyone at least once. They take a person with ticks and begin to breed - first for a conversation, then for a cigarette, then for a "call", and at 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 deliberately accept them, but we do not know their principles and norms. Here the dog is buried. We accept the rules of the game without knowing them.

Naturally, the slightest bit "overweight" freak, being even a puny income, knowing a couple of "gadgets", will beat you in no time. Because you agreed to play by his rules. And a person who voluntarily agreed to play by the rules that he does not know is called a sucker.

Who are the gopniks

The word probably comes from the famous "gop-stop" - which in fen means robbery or robbery.
Gopniks aren't exactly criminals. They follow a fine line - at first they "run over" the victim with a "bazaar", probe. Moreover, this is done without a direct threat of violence - from the outside it will seem that the gopnik is politeness itself, and you, on the contrary, are a nervous, unbalanced, or even completely aggressive type.

As a result of such a run-in, the victim, as a rule, gives up his property himself - usually little money, mobile phones, watches.
Everything is often on the verge of a "joke", a conversation "by concepts", so then during the 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 opera begins to get nervous, if not even to be brutalized, and, in the end, tries to get rid of you. There is no legal basis. If the showdown among the lads, then you get the status of a sucker. And getting from a sucker is a sacred thing for a gopnik. He's a kid, you sucker. By concepts, he is right. The conversation is over.

How to answer questions like: "Hey, come here!"

This is a check for a Lokhov suit. Loch will certainly look back and hurry to come up.

Let's say you get lost, i.e. stopped and turned, in a word, expressed some interest. But they didn’t come.
- Hey, come here, I said!
Answers like "come here yourself" are not good unless you are a boxing champion.
Wait.
Come up to you. Fearfully.
- Don't you hear? (frostbitten, swollen ...)
Do not pay attention, freeze, like, further:

We are not suckers

Let's say your "conversation" did not start with a direct provocation like the one described above. In this case, usually a gopnik will hold out his hand at a meeting - he greets you like a kid. This obliges you to be moderately polite, to answer the first questions. Which is what he wants.

This is one of the main tricks of a gopnik - after such a gesture of "goodwill" he gets the right to "justly" be indignant that you, for example, do not want to communicate with him. Plus, he immediately creates an alibi for himself - “I rolled up to him like a boy, shook him with my claws. Was it like that !? " - "Well, yes ..." - "And the people saw it. And then he started to build show-offs for me ... ". Ten points in favor of the gopa.

We break off at the very beginning. It is very difficult to bear - a look and an outstretched hand to you. Stencils of politeness are hammered into us deeply. The hand stretches itself. We hold on. We look in the face. We smile.

Who are you?

The most common question asked by a sucker candidate. You do not need to answer it, otherwise you will fall on the hook.
Important! If you are the wrong kid, that is, a goof, then you will certainly shake hands with the gopu, not even knowing who is in front of you. In prison, they don't shake hands, for example - and the rules of the prison are sacred for a gopnik.

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

Your main task as a true sucker is NOT to stay within the framework of HIS rules, NOT to break off the gopnik by his own methods. It is better to try to appeal to universal human morality and quote the Constitution, and then you will be guaranteed to return home with a broken nose and cleaned out pockets.

If this option does not suit you, and you want to know how to exit the game as a winner, then read on.

Bazaar hit

If you obviously did not come to beat, then the second part follows - "hitting by the bazaar". In any case, if you are not yet lying on the pavement, and conversations are talking to you, then everything is in order.
- Who are you?
- Who are you? Where are you from?
- Let me see the phone number (have money? For what occasion are we drinking?)
- I do not know you.
Go (stand) further.
If this did not work (most likely not) and the questions continue, you need to go on the offensive:

The best defense is offense

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

It is important to understand and remember the main thing - you need a reason to attack you. Aggression for no reason is lawlessness. A reason is expected from you. Until you give it, you are safe.

In no case should you make the slightest concession - not answer anything. NOT ONE, even if completely innocent, QUESTION.

As soon as you have answered something, even the most neutral, and want to interrupt the conversation later, the aggressor has a "moral right" to accuse you of disrespect for himself. After all, you "supported" the conversation, and then refuse to continue. Ugly.

Of course, you will not get a direct answer to your question. A lot of options for further development:
- And what, zapadlo with the guys pobazar? (Are you being rude? You don't respect me? I don't understand ...)

Don't "go to the bazaar"

You can't leave your topic. In no case do not answer the questions - "I respect you, but ...", "I am not rude, but ...". Your "but" will be immediately regarded as weakness, so only suckers answer. This will be followed by the phrase “What are you making excuses for? Do you feel what you are? "

This is a 100% trick - it doesn't matter what you answer or just keep quiet, 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 yourself understand that it sounds just stupid.
- Justify.
- Why should I justify?
- Because you are making excuses.
- Yes, I am not making excuses!
- What are you doing now?
- I ... well ... well, you! I do not want to talk to you.
- Oh, you are also rude ...

We break the situation

What, zapadlo with normal guys pobazarit? Is the likely response to your counterattack. Remember - no "no", "not", and even more "but".
- You did not answer my question.
- And you on mine.
- Are you going to run into the lawlessness?
- Are you accusing me of something?
- Answer my question. May I ask you?

Pay attention - just "inquire". “To ask” has a double meaning on a hairdryer - they ask someone for something that will immediately be regarded as hitting - “I have the right to ask”. - "What? Ask me? For what? Justify. " Everything, again a dead end, you are in a bag.

- I'm interested in myself.
“I am interested for myself” - the usual phrase-answer to the question “for what purpose are you interested?”. Everything is fine. As soon as you heard something like this, the enemy flinched - you made the "right kid" make excuses. Now the main thing is not to go too far.

- I do not know you.
In no case should I 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. Until you give a formal reason for war, you are in a better position.

Hold positions

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

In fact, there is ONE reason, and you must remember about it - to provoke you and get the moral right to attack, insult, humiliate, hit, rob. But, of course, the "correct kid" will never voice it, because then he himself recognizes himself as an out-of-bounds.

And this is no longer according to concepts - the right guys do not mend lawlessness. Those. you ask a question that he cannot answer, but, according to his own rules, must. In chess, this is called a "fork" - we attack two pieces with one piece. The only choice left to the opponent is which piece to lose.

Do not bend

In no case do you fulfill small requests - by any concept, you can demand to state the reason first, or qualify it as a direct hit. What you have to say directly.

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

- You bastard, or what?
and go to the counterattack.
- Do you want to run over me?
- I ask you as a normal kid.
You have earned a point, it is justified. And in front of everyone he calls you a "normal kid." One more point.
- Oh. Sorry, did not get it. On.

A draw in a foreign field is a victory

If one does not want to be defeated, then the gopu has only one thing to do:

1. either start beating you, which puts him in the category of offenders from the point of view of the law or in the category of lawlessness from the point of view of concepts. He does not need this, because the gop only wants to be promoted at the expense of your humiliation.

2. either "admit" that the goal was different - to get to know each other, to communicate, to spend time together. That is, to avoid defeat. Which was required. A draw on a foreign field suits us perfectly.

"Fork" - he already chooses only between which variant of defeat to accept. Most likely he is not a fool.
- Do you know me? Well, let's get to know each other.
You can shake your paws.

Don't get carried away with victory

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

How to become a victim

The normal desire of every normal person is to avoid street clashes. Although, in some cases they are inevitable, most often people become victims of gopots because of ignorance of the elementary rules of "that" world.

So, what do you need to do to get beaten inappropriately: Well, or at worst, they just got bogged down. Let's list the main mistakes:

Make excuses.
Anwser the questions.
Fall into "high" tones.
Don't ask for an answer to your question.
Mumble something inarticulate.
Exceed the permissible impact dose.
Fulfill requests: "let me have a smoke (call, see the phone number)"

Check passed

If you do not make a mistake, and your “opponent” does not knock him off the battlefield, then you may well find new friends, and even the best Kents.

And if the turning point has already occurred, then maybe you shouldn't give up on the further development of events - it is likely that you will be offered to drink beer together, have some fun.

This happens quite often - if you pass the test for "boyhood", you become not only an equal, but also a respected equal. In the crowds of gopniks there are usually one or two "real" guys, the rest are sticky. The leader always knows this and, in general, is not interested in him with them - these are his pitiful copies.

Therefore, you quite honestly and sincerely may want to be friends. The choice is yours. If not, then no. They patted each other on the shoulder, or even hugged each other like brothers. The bazaar is over, consumption.

The last and most important rule

The last and most important rule is not to turn around. Either do not start at all, or, once started, do not give up.

Remember Russian fairy tales - don't turn around. Who turned around - lost.

Of course, this is just a canvas, you will always need your creativity. Fear will make its own adjustments, but, nevertheless, it is possible to remember.