Florida man takes school trip to Russia and joins the Russian mafia and ends up becoming local legend, despite not knowing Russian.

bert: *loves his family and is extremely loyal to his wife and children*

“When I was 22 I got involved with the Russian mafia. Here’s how it happened....”- that, my friends, is how you start a story.

I took Russian in college for 4 semesters, I actually did learn a little bit. I had a classmate who went on a trip there, he said he got robbed by some little kids with a gun for cigarettes, and $5 and then afterwards they smoked the cigs they stole from him with him Then he and a friend got picked up by the police for pissing in the street, got put in the cop car and the cop was just like “meh each of you give me $20.” Then they drank vodka in the patrol car and the cop passed out. Sounds like an interesting place.

This is probably the best tourism ad I've seen for Russia.

Bert: Lv1 Crook

"I'm learning the language my way, not with flashcards but by joining the mafia." Submersion the best way lol

Imagine his daughters being like "uh dad theres a man named igor at the door asking for the machine!?"

6:36 the part that's killing me the most is I'm picturing the professor sitting with the other students as they watching walking the first class as they all collectively turn their head mouth agasp staring at the teacher, and then she just calmly turns her head and without raising her voice at all quietly says "yeah.. We might lose that one... but it shouldn't affect future trips..."

Best underrated quote "I learned the language not by flashcards and textbooks, but by joining the mafia"

i can see his kids just saying to their bullies "my dad is in the mafia. have ever heard of the MACHINE"

“Igor i know what you said”

Speech: 1

“Florida man robs train and joins Russian mafia during school field trip”

"Never learned a word"

The story all checks out and is backed up by classmates, with photos. Cool shit!

"Liberal Arts confidence" was the most underrated thing about the story.