How was the notorious mafia made?

When it comes to gangster movies, most of us have seen them. I am familiar with Hong Kong gangster movies (with pictures of young people), and then I have seen some Japanese gangster movies and American gangster movies. However, most of these gangster movies have a feature, that is, these gangs are all gangs in a certain region, such as Zhulian Gang and Yamaguchi Group. And when we want to talk about a world-wide gang, we must mention the Italian mafia.

Most of what we know about the mafia comes from the gangster film The Godfather, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1972 and starred Marlon Brando and Al pacino. Most of this gang are Italians, and they like to eat spaghetti and have meetings. Usually, they just wear a suit, a small hat and a pair of black sunglasses, so it's not too stylish.

We can almost say that this mafia is the only mafia organization in the world that has spread its influence all over the world. Assassination, kidnapping and bribery? This is an evil underworld organization; Godfather, strategist, killer? This is a well-organized criminal gang; Father, son, gang, this is also an ordinary Italian family? This is the notorious Italian mafia.

let's talk about the characteristics of this mafia first.

First of all, this organization is based on family and blood ties, so it is closely United.

within the mafia, families are the unit. For example, Vito Don Corleone in The Godfather, their family is the Corleone family. Members of this organization may not be family members, but as long as anyone enters this organization and becomes a member of this Corleone family, they must take Corleone, the head of this family, as the godfather.

Corleone in the film The Godfather

Actually, this is understandable. When our country was in the old society, we all looked forward to having more wives and sons at home, and the population was prosperous. In this way, you will be more emboldened when fighting against foreign forces. In fact, this is a simple family organization, in which the interests of the family are paramount, ensuring that someone will take the lead in case of trouble and maintaining the long-term prosperity of the family.

Therefore, these people gathered in this way in the mafia have a particularly strong cohesion.

Secondly, the mafia is particularly good at using "fame" and "profit" as means.

We use "human feelings" to expand our sphere of influence, and Italy happens to be a human society. Many people believe in human feelings rather than open rules. For example, in order to get a right for free, some people would rather draw several times the cost to find someone to ask for help. Now with the development of market economy, this kind of thing is less and less, but in Italy, which was backward at the beginning, people are reluctant to have direct connection with the government if they can find relationships.

Take the incident in The Godfather as an example. Usually, when the godfather Corleone does something for others, he will refuse the other person's money and choose to let the other person use "human feelings" as a return. As we all know, this kind of thing was paid at that time, and it's easy to say that it's even. But if you don't give money to owe people, after this debt of gratitude, you can't pay off this little money now. The same is true of Du Yuesheng, the leader of the big Shanghai gangster who used to pay attention to "respect, scene and decency". He doesn't like to accept money, but accepts it with respect. These principles are all the same.

Du Yuesheng

In this way, the Mafia has built its own human network around the world, and it will be popular wherever it goes for a long time. Often, the more chaotic the government's management is, the more feasible it will be.

So, how did such a large-scale underworld organization come about?

In fact, the Mafia, like most other triads, started out as a self-defense organization formed by the disadvantaged groups to protect their own interests. Mafia was formed in the 13th and 14th centuries, when Italian Sicilian farmers formed an underground organization to protect their rights and resist foreign aggression.

Some people say that the outline of Italy is like a foot wearing high heels, and Sicily is the "stone" kicked out by the toes.

Sicily has important strategic significance in its geographical position, which attracted the attention of many powers, so the French occupied Sicily. Unexpectedly, a French officer raped a local girl, which aroused great public anger, and local riots frequently killed the French. Later, due to the repression of the local government and the French, the riots gradually went underground, forming an underground organization called Maffia. "mafia" comes from Arabic and means "fleeing". This is the predecessor of the Mafia.

Development

At that time, the Italian government was notoriously incompetent, and the government itself had very poor control over the localities. After a long time, it formed a situation of "the government was in charge of the surface and the mafia was in charge of the underground". The government has no ability to guarantee people's rights, and people can only pay protection fees to the mafia to obtain asylum. Under the nourishment of this kind of soil, "Sophia" had a frightening influence in the 19th and 2th centuries. Even the fascist leader Mussolini, who was extremely dictatorial and dictatorial later, felt the threat of the mafia, so he began to suppress the mafia.

However, Mussolini's suppression didn't make the Mafia disappear, and from that time on, many partisans migrated to the east coast of the United States and continued to develop and take root there. The mafia transferred to the United States did not continue to rob homes at first, but turned into a "neighborhood mediation office". At the beginning of the 2th century, after gaining a firm foothold, they began to engage in illegal business and assassination.

Just like an organization will stand up and take responsibility for the incident after an explosion in a certain area, the mafia will leave a black handprint after committing a crime. After a long time, people began to call this organization the mafia.

During the Great Counter-offensive in Europe in p>1944, Luciano, the godfather of American mafia, negotiated with the allied forces and was willing to organize the Italian mafia to disintegrate the local fascist armed forces. In exchange for weapons and materials provided by the US government, political relaxation and many other benefits. So the mafia took this opportunity to develop rapidly in the United States.

In addition, there is actually another condition for the mafia to be strong: the government is incompetent. Later, with the development and growth of the United States and Italy, the control of the government increased day by day, and the strength of the local mafia declined day by day.

well, this is the general history of the rise and fall of the mafia. In fact, when I first came into contact with this story, my biggest feeling was that only when the society is stable and people's lives are guaranteed can we fundamentally cut off the roots of the underworld. Just as Su Beggar in Stephen Chow's "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Beggar" said, if everyone is rich, who wants to join the Beggars' Sect and be a beggar?