Talk:Koshka Brotherhood/@comment-82.131.83.196-20140418200250/@comment-1854917-20140418221313

As a Ukrainian I must say I've never thought about it, despite both series are amongst my favorite. I doubt the connection though, despite "The Balck Cat"  was a very often and popular name for gangs in USSR in 40s. In fact, modern Russian and other Post-Soviet organized crime rarely has names for their gangs, at least chosen by themselves. It was very popular to have nicknames and even downright gimmicks from 20s to 40s, there was even a gang in the USSR called "Living Corpses" who had used white cowls, masks and springs to jump high instead of walk. Kind of like supervillains.