The real life LORD OF WAR (Mini Documentary) | Victor Bout

Learn about one of the world’s most notorious arms smugglers, Victor Bout. Victor worked with the Taliban and smuggled weapons all across Africa and the Middle East. ************************* This man is Viktor Bout. He’s best known for supplying weapons for civil wars in Rwanda, congo, liberia, and all this earned him the nickname: merchant of death. Viktor’s story begins in the capital of Tajikistan, his mother was a bookkeeper and his father was an auto mechanic. When he was around 20 years old, he was living during the russian revolution, the change from communism to capitalism was hard for all russia, many people were stealing and making money illegally. But he was a businessman and he knew that there was a lot more money to be made legally than illegally, he understood the most important rule in business: want money? solve a problem. The first idea that popped into Viktor’s entrepreneurial mind was to start an import company, to bring in goods from the former socia