What was/is the greatest criminal organisation in history?

What was/is the greatest criminal organisation in history?
inb4 the American government and all its branches

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Italian mafia in the 1920's America
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modern day Mexican/Colombian Cartels

The Bolsheviks started out robbing banks just to pay their bills and they ended up subverting one of the most powerful nations of their day. That's gotta be something.

Communist regimes, currently its the United States in terms of victims

But i would think the drug cartels in terms of how brutal they are to their enemies

CIA

>What was/is the greatest criminal organisation in history?

Mono"theism."

youtube.com/watch?v=2JNUXyHffV8

The feudal aristocracy

The line between criminal organization and pseudo government can often become blurred. Cf. the Islamic State and the stronger Mexican Cartels

the Islamic State is a self-proclaimed government

the cartels aren't

But they effectively act as one in several areas.

The definition of a criminal organization is also unclear especially in pre modern times.

Catholic Church

it depends on what you consider greatest fag...

Biggest? probably some Chinese or Indian faction, even Brazilians.

Most influential?

Colombia, today? Mexico

Plus Afghanistan(which are not criminal organisations per se), the golden triangle and Russia factions

They all are very relevant were they are, some more relevant then Mexico

The Zionist lobby.

Wall Street

The Democratic Party

Lmao this namefag had to put "- the r€al one" next to his name.

What did you mean by this?

I was going to post this

The Yakuza in Japan

The British Empire

Ebin

winner

This likely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dragon_Society

It's basically the Japanese equivilent of the CIA pre-ww2. The Black Dragon Society is sort of like if the Yakuza worked for the Japanese government + a spy organization. Basically the gathered information through brothels, drug dealers, contacts in the militaries of various countries, and were an effective shadow organization dedicated to furthering Japan's control of East Asia behind the scenes. A lot of warlords in the Chinese civil war were likely on their payroll, and they're responsible for a lot of the chaos in the region leading up to the second world war.

Black Dragon is honestly super villain-esque when it comes down to half of their goals and activities. All in the name of the Emperor though

Probably one of the Venetian or Spanish merchant families.

the American government and all its branches

When italy didn't send us their best, they really did a number on it.

Either
,
,
or Medellin.
My honourable mentino goes to the Blue and Green chariot racing factions and the Brethren of the Coast.

Not criminal if you write the laws. :D

Luciano didn't really get the mob's shit together until the 30's though

>subverting one of the most powerful nations of their day

The luck of the moment coupled together with the TOTAL fuck up from both the Tzar and the provisional government. No subversion was used, all bolsheviks did was offering the program (even though it was retarded) and willingness bordering on the fanaticism to execute said program.

Which is something, considering the Tzar-pushover and the farce that was provisional government of Kerensky.

Why spics do this? they have proven they have capabilities of running black ops comparable to other organizations but they choose to do this to their own kind instead.

The Cheka/NKVD/KGB/FSB

British empire then/American government now.

Israel

Nice shitpost

The Thuggee cult was pretty brutal.

The US government and all it;s branches, they are all criminals and that is why I voted for Trump to clean the deep state out.

I really hope you're trolling

Wait what nobody posted:
>catholic church
No proddies around today?

He's joking. Stop being such a fag

Not the most powerful as far as manpower goes but the Yakuza as a collective of clans have been around the longest and are heavily embedded in Japanese society and ethnic enclaves overseas.

The National Socialist German Worker's Party

This. There isn't a lot of difference between modern Somali warlords and knights during most of medieval Europe

Mexican DFS > Cartels

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