The latest video with confessions of the “coastal partisans” has been disturbing the Internet for several days. To be honest, what was striking was not so much the revelations of the “young Avengers” as the approving reaction of the majority.
Let me remind you that they neutralized a gang, sorry, I can’t even call them partisans, on July 11 of this year in a house in the center of Ussuriysk. Its members Vladimir Ilyutikov and Alexander Kovtun surrendered, Andrei Sukhorada and Alexander Sladkikh died. Maxim Kirillov and Roman Savchenko were also detained.
The investigation is not yet completed. So far, the “partisans” are accused of three attacks on law enforcement officers in May-June 2010. They killed one policeman, two more escaped with injuries. Even before his capture, there was information circulating on the Internet that the “partisans” had announced a fight against corruption in the police.
Now, after watching 13 minutes of video recording, which seems to have been made just a few days before the arrest, it has finally become clear in what ways they fought. In fact, there are several more episodes: rape, robbery. But all this has yet to be proven to the investigation or, conversely, refuted by the defense. But there is now a video confession regarding the murder.
And so, there are only four young people in the frame. They sit on the floor and talk about the nobility of their deeds, waving a pistol. One of them has a 12-gauge Saiga carbine. Everyone heard their own ideology from the lips of murderers.
This is what Andrei Sukhorada, who was shot during his arrest, said (although there is a version of suicide):
“All you can do is terrorize your people. Defenseless and resigned. Who is used to humiliation. And your “mighty” so-called “empire” - the Russian Federation - is based entirely on alcoholism, fear and cowardice. One day it will collapse. And you are with her. Into the abyss! You can deceive commoners who, with their slavish nature, do not see your lies. But you will not deceive the Almighty. Because He sees everything. And everyone will have the answer... We do not recognize either federal or local laws. We completely deny all power of the Russian Federation. And we say hello to everyone who is in the resistance - the North Caucasus and other worthy, honest, noble people... We will fight with you to the last, until you kill us or until we win. But most likely you will kill us. If this video reaches you, we will probably be dead already.”
And this is Alexander Kovtun, whose mother is now outraged that she is not allowed to visit her son:
“This is not some spontaneous incident. No, we did it purposefully, planned. You protect the drug business, prostitution, a lot of other things, you steal forests, and everyone knows it very well. The people are afraid of you, but there are still people who are not afraid of you and will shoot at your badges. We were told that information had been received that we had raped someone. This is vile. Everyone knows us well, and no one will believe this nonsense.”
Much more was said there. Bold, cynical, with grins and bravado. With a demonstration of the ID of the killed policeman. There are no indifferent people left. “...These guys are very convincing... These are such Russian boys... direct descendants of the angry Pugachevites. Everything is as it should be, everything is on track,” says the “father” of the National Bolsheviks, writer Eduard Limonov. And he is not alone in his judgments. The majority of Internet users who responded to the video approve and support the “fighters against the cops.”
It can be assumed that the video was “leaked” onto the Internet by law enforcement agencies. They clearly counted on a negative effect, but missed. Apparently, their target audience is me and a small group of people who don’t understand how lawlessness can be romanticized. I don’t want to discuss whether there is a Wahhabi trace in the recording, or vice versa. It’s enough for me that they laughed when they remembered the victim screaming “help.” For me, these “partisans” and Evsyukov have the same diagnosis - moral degradation. A person who kills, and even with pleasure, not for the purpose of self-defense, but for professional reasons, cannot be an ideologist of some kind of resistance. He's a KILLER.
These mature boys are not fighters for the people, not fighters against the regime. They have a mess in their heads, seasoned with life circumstances. One went on the run from military service, the other was swept away by the cops. What does this have to do with all the tinsel about the fate of Russia, which is sliding into an abyss that absolutely needs to be pushed? The worst thing is that one of the heroes of the video is right, people will follow them. Because the law enforcement system is rotten, because no amount of renaming the police will save it.
It’s a pity that it won’t save an individual cop, who may be a completely normal person. He may have a wife and children, friends and petty bribe-payers. He might even be an alcoholic, drinking himself to death while on duty. But, by God, this is not a reason to shoot him in the back of the head.
Today, the detained “partisans” are martyrs in the eyes of the majority. One of them, here, complains that he is being forced to testify under torture. Sorry, what did you want? You declared war on them, and now you want such and such cops to behave nobly? Yes, they are afraid that if they don’t crush all this “partisanship” in the bud, they will simply be killed one by one. And I’m sure that those who write on the Internet today: “Well done, guys. I hope your business will continue!” - they themselves give the cops and even their quite decent colleagues a free hand.