SLST 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Knife Fight, Federal Security Service, Viggo Mortensen
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Russian mafia: continued theme: the connection between the soviet and russian secret services and the russian mafia. In london, the russian pregnant teenager tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The russian descendant midwife anna khitrova finds tatiana"s diary written in russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle. Stepan refuses, but anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the russian semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact tatiana"s family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, stepan translates part of the diary and anna discovers that semyon and his sick son kirill had raped tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own.