Black Volga
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Black Volga(Polish:czarna wołga) refers to anurban legendwidespread inPoland,Romania,Hungary,Russia,[1]Belarus,Ukraine,GreeceandMongolia,[2]mainly in the 1960s and 1970s.[3][4][5][6]The legend refers to a black (or in some versions red[1]) GAZ-21 or GAZ-24 that was allegedly used to abduct and murder people. According to different versions, it was driven bycommunist secret police,Russian mafia,SatanistsorSatanhimself.[7][8][9]The car is described as having white wheel rims, white curtains or other white elements.
This impression was also caused by the active use of the passenger car of the Gorky Automobile Plant GAZ-M1 (Emka) by theNKVDbodies during the years of mass repression. For the sake of saving money, during almost all the time of its release, the M1 was only available with black paint, which emphasized the ominous image of the car.[citation needed]
Supposedly, victims were kidnapped and then murdered by the perpetrators to use their blood as a cure for rich Westerners or Arabs[2]suffering fromleukemia.Other variants used organ theft as the motive, combining it with another infamous legend of kidney theft by theKGB.The legend surfaced again in the late 20th century, with aBMWorMercedescar taking the Volga's place. The Black Volga was sometimes depicted with horns instead ofwing mirrors.It could also have the number "666" on the license plate, as well as having white windows or curtains. In this version, the driver (allegedlythe devil) would ask passers-by for the time and kill them when they approached the car to answer. In another version of the legend, the victim would die at the same time a day later (the driver would say: "Tomorrow you will die at this hour" ). However, there was an effective defence method—when the potential victim answered "It is God's time", the car would quickly vanish.
In Czechoslovakia, the story appeared in the late 1970s as theblack ambulance,while in Romania, the Volgas were replaced in the 1970s with Dacia 1301s, a modified version of theDacia 1300with several features not available to the public, which were eventually replaced by ambulances as well in the 1990s.
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References[edit]
- ^abBrunvand, J.H. (2001).Encyclopedia of Urban Legends.ABC-CLIO.ISBN9781576070765.
- ^abBennett, G. (2009).Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend.University Press of Mississippi.ISBN9781604732450.
- ^"Czarna wołga i inne legendy miejskie"(in Polish). serwisy.gazeta.pl (Gazeta Wyborcza). Archived fromthe originalon 2009-02-19.Retrieved2009-06-01.
- ^ "Czarna wołga w hipermarkecie"(in Polish). wiadomosci.gazeta.pl (Gazeta Wyborcza).Retrieved2009-06-01.
- ^"Czarna wołga ma 50 lat"(in Polish). dziennik.pl (Dziennik). Archived fromthe originalon 2008-03-24.Retrieved2009-06-01.
- ^ "Miejskie legendy"(in Polish). wiadomosci.polska.pl. Archived fromthe originalon 2008-10-05.Retrieved2009-06-01.
- ^Godlewski, Konrad (2004-01-06)."Czarna wołga i inne legendy miejskie".wyborcza.pl(in Polish).Retrieved2022-02-05.
- ^Milanowski, Janusz (2017-01-05)."O tym, jak i dlaczego czarne bmw zastąpiło czarną wołgę, a wojsko ocaliło Bydgoskie Przedmieście".Toruń Nasze Miasto(in Polish).Retrieved2022-02-05.
- ^Jaros, Janusz (1999-09-24)."Szatańska Plotka".archiwum.wyborcza.pl.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-09-21.Retrieved2022-02-05.
Further reading[edit]
- Dionizjusz Czubala,Współczesne Legendy Miejskie[Contemporary urban legends], Ph.D. thesis,Uniwersytet Sląski,Katowice, 1993,ISBN83-226-0504-8
- Piotr Gajdziński,Imperium plotki[The empire of rumours], Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa, 2000, pp. 197–200
