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Last Monday, serviceman Maxim Gugaev celebrated his 23rd birthday. Parents could not come to him from Yaroslavl. Employees of the human rights organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg", a company ...

Last Monday, serviceman Maxim Gugaev celebrated his 23rd birthday. Parents could not come to him from Yaroslavl. Employees of the human rights organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" came to congratulate him, accompanied by the correspondent of "Novaya" ...

The guy is the victim in two criminal cases at once. One defendant, Colonel P., an employee of the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport, gave him into slavery to the second, civilian U. According to the materials of the investigation, the “slave owner” systematically beat the slave soldier, and then doused him with acid.

Maxim was delighted when he found out that he would get into the service not just anywhere, but in St. Petersburg, in the battalion of the support of the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport. Radical changes in the life of ordinary Gugaev began when Colonel P. became the commander of the support battalion. It was he who sent Maxim to the dacha for further service.

According to the guy, the events unfolded like this. Once Gugaev was put into a car and taken to a mansion surrounded by a high fence with barbed wire. Further, the officer handed over the soldier to the people guarding the dacha. They told Maxim what his future duties would be: they gave a tour of the estate, showed rabbits, chickens, geese, pigs that need to be looked after, as well as the construction of the utility block that had just begun. Soon Maxim met the owner of the dacha. The man, who walked around the territory in a torn T-shirt and sweatpants, said that he should be called only "comrade general."

Now the criminal case against the dacha general is being investigated by the ordinary civil prosecutor's office - he had nothing to do with military service.

According to Maxim Gugaev, spattering his saliva heart-rendingly, he beat a soldier because he did not run up to him so quickly or looked in the wrong direction. Maxim tried to resist only once, defending himself from a rubber baton. Then W. called the bodyguards, who severely beat the guy. The worst thing is that very soon Gugaev got used to such treatment. It was much more difficult to get used to hunger.

At first, the soldier was fed, at the very least, three times a day. Then - two, then - one, and then they began to miss several days at all. Maxim had to sleep either in the basement or at the workplace - the construction site. For some time, compassionate neighbors fed the guy. From them, he learned that he was far from being the first slave in the "general's" dacha.

For all the past time, Maxim was not allowed to leave the dacha. Constant beatings and hunger eventually pushed the guy to escape. One night he tried to climb over a barbed-wire fence. He pulled himself up, climbed up and ... collapsed to the ground with wild cries. A current was passed through the wire, as in a real concentration camp. That night, Maxim was terribly beaten by the guards, along with the owner of the dacha.

It is not known how this story would have ended if it were not for another trick of the slave owner U. The overly excitable "comrade general" once again did not like the way the young man works. Grabbing the first thing that came to hand, he threw it towards Maxim. "It" turned out to be a can of acid. From burns on his leg and neck, exhausted by hunger and beatings, the guy began to lose consciousness. The inhabitants of the dacha stuffed Maxim into a car, drove him to the checkpoint of the Military Academy of Logistics and Transport, and left him at the gate.

From there, in a terrible state, Gugaev ended up in the military field surgery clinic of the Military Medical Academy. Doctors immediately reported the incident to the prosecutor's office.

Only in mid-December last year, a criminal case appeared against the "slave trader" Colonel P.. On December 19, the battalion commander was detained as a suspect and sent to jail, though only for 10 days. Now Comrade Colonel is getting acquainted with the criminal case, walking under a written undertaking not to leave the country. Finding someone who called himself "comrade general" was not so difficult. But "comrade general" is constantly ill and assures the investigators that he does not get up from his hospital bed.

What punishment the colonel and the “general” will receive, the near future will show. Maxim, who had been in the hospital for a long time, was recognized as fit to continue his service and was sent to the support company of another well-known military academy.