The demons are deaf

The campaign in defense of the convicts in the case of the "network" is growing. In support of the innocent, protest shares are held (the latter - the strike of the book traders ) and open letters are written. Against this background, the silence of the authorities who do not respond to the pickets or to the messages are more and more amazing. One gets the impression that, on this occasion, President Vladimir Putin, the workers of his administration, propagandists and support groups literally have nothing to say.

In general, special services are supposed to work in No Comment mode, but here is a special case. Still, this is not about the failed spies, which need to be pulled out without attracting excess attention, within the framework of the backstage exchange. We are talking about purely internal affairs. On the reputation, so to speak, the Chekist department in the eyes of Russian citizens. About the honor of the uniform, roughly speaking.

Because the scandal associated with the case of the "network" comes out very loud. FSB investigators who have produced evidence in this matter are accused of torture . The Volga District Military Court, who sentenced the seven innocent guys in total to 86 years in prison in the camps of a strict and general regime, is convicted of lawlessness. People go to single pickets . People write open letters, distributed, as in "Moscow business", by professional groups:students , scientists , writers and journalists , teachers , filmmakers , artists , psychologists . And the Lubyanka is silent, except for the mocking answers that the investigators gave the supervisory authority: they say that one of the interrogated was struck by the electric shocker when trying to escape, and the other on the body from the bite of the bugs. Although the situation is such that it is time for Bortnikov to speak with angry refutations. Or at least the FSB press service should protect the honor and dignity of its type of slandered employees.

The Kremlin is also silent, as if Nemea in front of the face of Themis. Despite the fact that earlier the Supreme Ruler was able to express himself personally, claiming that the enemies of the “hands in the blood” regime, and send special propagandists, and connect masters of culture to the verbal beating of the doomed and convicts, and arrange countermits. And now the authorities are unless of meaningless Nodgsy are trying to set up demonstrators , but there is little use from paid provocateurs. Putin Obshki plunged into awe , having read out a certificate of the villains of the participants of the "network" aloud, promised to figure it out and pretended to forget about them. Goebbels are occupied by coronavirus. The masters of culture, of those who are always ready to tear any disagreements to the shreds of any disagreement, especially the "terrorists", are today in demand as constitutional experts .

The silence, which I want to call bashful, is delayed, but shame here, of course, has nothing to do with it. Rather, it is necessary to explain what is happening by the “rule of Miranda”, now known to any criminal element, regardless of whether it is arrested or not, goes to civilian clothes or dressed in uniforms. “Everything that you say may be used against you in court” - this rule reads, and Bortnikov with the national leader, perhaps, act correctly, without reacting to protests.

No, no criminal court at present, of course, does not threaten them. However, the public opinion court is in full swing, and even if the stupid tweet of Ksenia Sobchak , finally admitted to the first button and carefully practicing the order, causes a storm of emotions, then what will happen if the generalsimus and his generals speak? And there is no need to equal the operas from the FSB with opera from the Ministry of Internal Affairs or prison warders, whom the leadership sometimes allows you to punish for thrown drugs, beating and torture. Those who throws the “terrorist organization” to compatriots cannot be punished, and if there is nothing to say to the president and the chief of our main special services in their excuse, then they will not open the mouth.

There is probably another reason for this game of silence. After the monstrous sentences in the case of the “network”, individual commentators are not without some reason to remember the 37th year, which probably pleases the heirs of the glorious traditions of Batyr Yezhov. It is important to be silent, they also wink about dumbfounded Russians: yeah, guys, the era of rampant terror comes, sit at home and chain with fear. This is essentially a useful horror story, about the 37th year, for nothing that then on all the stands and on the pages of all newspapers the people in the person of their best representatives fought in a collective hysteria, and now the deaf -flexible heavy silence prevails both in the population and in elites. If horror is laid down in genes, then with these genes a skilled experimenter can successfully work, and whether the secret meaning of the torture investigation and the cannibal verdict in the "networkers" in order to paralyze society.

Another question is how this idea has been a success. Judging by the fact that hundreds and hundreds of people, mainly young and very young, go to the Lubyanka and stand with posters, and thousands sign letters of protest, and hundreds of thousands of Russian -speaking people on the whole planet support them, people remember about Yezhov and so on our Gestapo, but do not want to live with him. And the "network" is growing, already composing millions of citizens who do not think about terror, but experiencing a sense of genuine hatred of those who terrorize Russian society. At the top they understand this, which is why they do not miss the chance to keep silent. Nevertheless, they will have to answer sooner or later, and signs of evil nervousness and confusion are noticeable even in how in the Kremlin, on television channels and in a paid blogosphere almost no one dares to join the FSB.

Probably, the time is transit, or something, when sharpness and unambiguity in such matters are not welcome, the highest authorities fluctuate, and it, including the Chekists, unsuccessfully tries to comprehend, which will deign the irreplaceable leader over the Basic Law. You still want to torture, they say, you can throw extremists or so far, we’ll just be silent very menacingly? And he does not give an answer, and his speakers are silent in jointly with him, and this silence is becoming more and more eloquent every day.