Black Volga

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A black GAZ-21 Volga
A black GAZ-24 Volga

Black Volga (Polish: czarna wołga) refers to an urban legend widespread in Poland, Hungary, Russia,[1] Belarus, Ukraine, Greece and Mongolia,[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 people, especially children.[7] According to different versions, it was driven by priests, nuns, Jews, communist secret police, Russian mafia, vampires, satanists or Satan himself.[citation needed] The car is described as having white wheel rims, white curtains or other white elements.

A black GAZ-M1

This impression was also caused by the active use of the passenger car of the Gorky Automobile Plant GAZ-M1 (Emka) by the NKVD bodies 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, children were kidnapped to use their blood as a cure for rich Westerners or Arabs[2] suffering from leukemia; other variants used organ theft as the motive, combining it with another infamous legend about kidney theft by the KGB. The legend surfaced again in the late 20th century, with a BMW or Mercedes car taking the Volga's place, sometimes depicted with horns instead of wing mirrors. He could also have three numbers "6" on the license plate.[citation needed] In this version, the driver 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 says: "Tomorrow you will die at this hour".) According to another version of the legend, there was an effective defense method. Whenever the driver of the Black Volga asked "What time is it?", the asked person would have to answer "It is God's time". Then the car would leave quickly.[citation needed]

In Czechoslovakia the story appeared in the late 1970s as the , while in Romania, the Volgas were replaced in the 1970s with Dacia 1301s, a modified version of the Dacia 1300 with several features not available to the public, which were eventually replaced by ambulances aswell in the 1990s.

In popular culture[]

The legend of Black Volga has been the basis for SCP-265, an entry in the online collaborative writing project SCP Foundation. SCP-265 is a paranormal self-driving GAZ M21 Volga, which occasionally stalks and harasses randomly chosen passersby, as well as evades any attempts at capture by seemingly implausible means, such as disappearing or driving underwater.[8]

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Brunvand, J.H. (2001). Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781576070765.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Bennett, G. (2009). Bodies: Sex, Violence, Disease, and Death in Contemporary Legend. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604732450.
  3. ^ "Czarna wołga i inne legendy miejskie" (in Polish). serwisy.gazeta.pl (Gazeta Wyborcza). Archived from the original on 2009-02-19. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  4. ^ "Czarna wołga w hipermarkecie" (in Polish). wiadomosci.gazeta.pl (Gazeta Wyborcza). Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  5. ^ "Czarna wołga ma 50 lat" (in Polish). dziennik.pl (Dziennik). Archived from the original on 2008-03-24. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  6. ^ "Miejskie legendy" (in Polish). wiadomosci.polska.pl. Archived from the original on 2008-10-05. Retrieved 2009-06-01.
  7. ^ Shkandrij, Myroslav (2019-07-17), "Call to Violence", Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917–2017, First edition. | New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, [2020] | Series: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 75: Routledge, pp. 68–83, doi:10.4324/9780429319488-5, ISBN 978-0-429-31948-8, retrieved 2020-09-10CS1 maint: location (link)
  8. ^ "SCP-265 - SCP Foundation". www.scpwiki.com. Retrieved 2021-02-27.

Further reading[]

  • Dionizjusz Czubala, Współczesne Legendy Miejskie [Contemporary urban legends], Ph.D. thesis, Uniwersytet Sląski, Katowice, 1993, ISBN 83-226-0504-8
  • Piotr Gajdziński, Imperium plotki [The empire of rumours], Prószyński i S-ka, Warszawa, 2000, pp. 197–200
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