Chernokozovo, black hole

Five years ago, we first heard about filtration camps. The military observer of the newspaper, who had just returned from Chechnya, Alexander Trushin, not even starting to talk about what he saw there, said that he was going back soon: "We must find out about filters." The editorial audience, in which the word "filter" was previously associated with water from a tap or engine oil, did not know what to think. Then Sasha explained: “Here, say, the area of the formidable. Special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs descends into the basements. In each basement people. Everyone who, as special forces believe, can wear weapons, pull out. According to witnesses, they are men from 15 to 60 years old. They are taken to one place. And then they beat and say:“ admit - you are adjusted? ” "Men are taken to Mozdok, to the station. We turned to the competent authorities: figure it out. Let's figure it out - the authorities assured. They still understand. Five years ago, our correspondents brought metal needles and balls from Chechnya. In the district center of Shali, these pieces of iron, which were filled with shells, which fell on the city, were impressed by 70 people. The Russian army used weapons prohibited by the 1981 Geneva Convention as anti -human. We showed the "trophies" (more precisely - evidence) to the former Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov. “These are needle ammunition,” Marshal confirmed, “they are used for the most part in the rocket systems of volley fire. Such weapons are really prohibited for attacks on settlements. But I have no data on its use in Chechnya.” Understand, we turned to officials. We’ll figure it out - they assured the faces. They still understand. Five years ago, our correspondents miraculously remained alive after the Russian attack aircraft entered the Presidential Palace in the center of Grozny. The day before, the Minister of Defense Grachev announced the whole world that the bombing of the city was stopped and in general over all Chechnya - a cloudless sky. “How is it?” We were imposed. “The bombing was stopped, and our journalists almost died under the bombs.” They answered us with a question: "They threw a bomb on them or let a rocket?" “They let the rocket,” the correspondents specified. - You see, there was still no bombing. Well, nothing - we’ll figure it out. They still understand. Five years ago, the Commission on Compliance with Human Rights, led by Minister of Justice, Valentin Kovalev, heard evidence of the use of Grad reactive attitudes against the peaceful Chechen population - weapons of mass destruction. Three testified - General Bezborodov, General Stolyarov and deputy Zhamsuev. “It is still necessary to see how and where these installations are used,” the minister doubted. “We’ll figure it out.” They still understand. Today, five years later, we ask the same questions - about "filters", "grades", stripping, suffering and death of innocent people ... and we hear, like five years ago: "We will figure it out." What's happening? The question is rhetorical. Because a lie is a faithful companion of that and this war. They are similar, and the lies about them are the same. However, there is still one fundamental difference. Previously, they were lying with an eye on us - society did not want to believe in the good intentions of the authorities to restore the "constitutional order" in Chechnya. Now they are lying into vnag - a lie is in demand by society as an antidote from national humiliation, as propaganda support for the national idea. It is no coincidence that the rating of the popularity of war and the rating of the popularity of the acting The President is strikingly approached. And both - they go off the way. Is there an explanation for this? They will figure it out. ... Alexander Galich owns terrible and exact words: "Our train goes to Auschwitz - today and daily." And he wrote: "For someone else's sadness, we will be rewarded with fire and a sword." But the “prophets in its Fatherland” has never been faith, and Russia with enviable stubbornness skipped (and continues to skip) history lessons. Our train leaves again - today and daily. In Chernokozovo. Is the time for a "filtered" country? They will figure it out. With us ...

Five years ago, we first heard about filtration camps. The military observer of the newspaper, who had just returned from Chechnya, Alexander Trushin, not even starting to talk about what he saw there, said that he was going back soon: "We must find out about filters." The editorial audience, in which the word "filter" was previously associated with water from a tap or engine oil, did not know what to think. Then Sasha explained: “Here, say, the area of the formidable. Special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs descends into the basements. In each basement people. Everyone who, as special forces believe, can wear weapons, pull out. According to witnesses, they are men from 15 to 60 years old. They are taken to one place. And then they beat and say:“ admit - are you corrected? ”

After "processing" men are taken to Mozdok, to the station. There they are kept in wagons. This is the filtration camp. "

We turned to the competent authorities: figure it out. Let's figure it out - the authorities assured. They still understand.

Five years ago, our correspondents brought metal needles and balls from Chechnya. In the district center of Shali, these pieces of iron, which were filled with shells, which fell on the city, were impressed by 70 people. The Russian army used weapons prohibited by the 1981 Geneva Convention as anti -human. We showed the "trophies" (more precisely - evidence) to the former Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov. “These are needle ammunition,” Marshal confirmed, “they are used for the most part in the rocket systems of volley fire. Such weapons are really prohibited for attacks on settlements. But I have no data on its use in Chechnya.”

Understand, we turned to officials. We’ll figure it out - they assured the faces. They still understand.

Five years ago, our correspondents miraculously remained alive after the Russian attack aircraft entered the Presidential Palace in the center of Grozny. The day before, the Minister of Defense Grachev announced the whole world that the bombing of the city was stopped and in general over all Chechnya - a cloudless sky. “How is it?” We were imposed. “The bombing was stopped, and our journalists almost died under the bombs.”

They answered us with a question: "They threw a bomb on them or let a rocket?"

“They let the rocket,” the correspondents specified.

- You see, there was still no bombing. Well, nothing - we’ll figure it out.

They still understand.

Five years ago, the Commission on Compliance with Human Rights, led by Minister of Justice, Valentin Kovalev, heard evidence of the use of Grad reactive attitudes against the peaceful Chechen population - weapons of mass destruction. Three testified - General Bezborodov, General Stolyarov and deputy Zhamsuev. “It is still necessary to see how and where these installations are used,” the minister doubted. “We’ll figure it out.”

They still understand.

Today, five years later, we ask the same questions - about "filters", "grades", stripping, suffering and death of innocent people ... and we hear, like five years ago: "We will figure it out."

What's happening? The question is rhetorical. Because a lie is a faithful companion of that and this war. They are similar, and the lies about them are the same. However, there is still one fundamental difference. Previously, they were lying with an eye on us - society did not want to believe in the good intentions of the authorities to restore the "constitutional order" in Chechnya. Now they are lying into vnag - a lie is in demand by society as an antidote from national humiliation, as propaganda support for the national idea. It is no coincidence that the rating of the popularity of war and the rating of the popularity of the acting The President is strikingly approached. And both - they go off the way. Is there an explanation for this? They will figure it out.

... Alexander Galich owns terrible and exact words: "Our train goes to Auschwitz - today and daily." And he wrote: "For someone else's sadness, we will be rewarded with fire and a sword." But the “prophets in its Fatherland” has never been faith, and Russia with enviable stubbornness skipped (and continues to skip) history lessons.

Our train leaves again - today and daily. In Chernokozovo. Is the time for a "filtered" country? They will figure it out. With us ...