Without the king in the head

Squat as an attempt to escape in parallel reality

The activity of squatter in Russia (English Squat - illegally occupied premises) invariably coincides with the growth of protest moods in society. So it was in the 80s, in the mid-90s and now: over the past three years, over two dozen squat have appeared in the country. True, surviving them is much more difficult than their predecessors. The New Times studied the opportunity to live autonomously from the state

“The place is not the quietest, but it’s better not to find it,” explains the conductor nicknamed Bruck, a young man in a leather jacket and with a small horsemen. “They don’t even put the eye on him.” A small extension to one of the long-closed pavilions in the backyard of the VVC looks like not today or tomorrow it collapses: a leaked roof, mold on the walls, partially knocked out windows. At the beginning of spring, a community of 11 people settled here, consisting mainly of anarchists. On the hour of half a weekly evening, and not all at home. “The main thing is not to attract anyone's attention,” the bruise continues, telling about the rules of conduct. - Do not go out and not enter, preferably one at a time - two. We caught us once - I had to throw off on a hundred. Well we were all sober. "

"Not a ruble to the state"
In the warders of the 80-90s, it was not customary to limit oneself in pleasure, but in modern conditions you have to be careful. “We don’t take drugs,” says the bruise, “we don’t even smoke grass. Regarding the booze, a strict rule: no more than a glass of vodka per day per person. God forbid, someone will get drunk, it is pile up, but they will cover us. ” The anarchist community came out of the party of informals on the Old Arbat. “Although we have not only informals, there are even a former opera,” says the bruise. - He left menthur, could not stand the orders there. He was also kicked out of the hostel. We met on Arbat. Now he is with us. " The life of the community in the household sense is difficult. Eternally raw room, divided into four rooms, two sofas into all, found on city landfills, three seats. Part of the community sleeps in boxes at night. At the same time, the anarchists fundamentally do not turn to any state structures - even an ambulance does not cause an ambulance. “Not a ruble to the state,” the bruise laughs and adds: “We have Chiks (girl. - The New Times) is with a medical education, she will cure someone.” Bruck's friend Andrei nicknamed Green (his hair is painted in this color) says: “Hares when we are called marginals or homeless people. We all have a place of residence, documents, but we fundamentally live here - among the brothers we are better. By and large, with the current political system, people who strive for freedom are outcasts. So we are united. ” On one of the walls, Green hung the flag of anarchy with the inscription Punk Not Dead, issuing the ideology of the community. Periodically, its members participate in anarchist, environmental and anti -fascist actions, the green itself officially consists in the movement of Antifa. He looked at forty, he is the oldest, and therefore in authority: his word in Squat is always the last. “The difference between the current squat in more stringent rules,” he continues. - Previously, how was it? Bring someone you want, Buhai as much as you want. Now, already, it is no longer wound for more than six months to exist, and this is at best. We perfectly understand that sooner or later they will disperse us. Business takes everything in hand. They say that soon they will take up the ATC. ”

For hitchhiker squatt - transit parking, where you can spend the night and chat
"Feel like people"

The soloist of the Umka and armored car, Anna Gerasimova, nicknamed Umka, who managed to find the very first bounces of the beginning of the 80s, says that, “oddly enough, in Soviet times, the wanderers-although they were not so called: the abandoned buildings even in the prosperous Moscow was a dozen of the pond, and no one particularly took care of them. The cops, of course, persecuted us. But empty houses, in which there was even some furniture, could stand in this form for five and ten years. So if the uninvited guests were kicked out of one house, they immediately found another, hacked the castles and settled. Of course, the unwillingness to live according to the laws of the cop country united everyone. Inside, the squat was their own laws, excluding violence against a person. ” Nevertheless, according to the green, today the squatter movement in the capital is not only dying - it is expanded, and this is despite the fact that it would seem nowhere to settle. “Recently, another anarchist community appeared in Lyubertsy. True, “travokurs” there, but the guys are good, with some people personally are familiar. Eight in an eight in a small apartment. But nothing, be satisfied with the little one - you will win in the big one. ” As an example of such a victory, Green leads the experience of Christiania - the Skvotter district in Copenhagen. Informal youth, having captured in 1971, abandoned army barracks, eventually obtained from the government not only the right to reside in this territory, but also to give it a special status - in fact a separate state, inside which its laws are inside. “Not much is needed to feel like people,” Green concludes, “just live separately from state power. We cannot influence her in any way - there is no election. And living according to existing laws is impossible. Therefore, we unite against them, while in small groups, but there are thoughts to try to collect a large community. ”

Squat "Dawn". The view from the outside should scare away possible "invaders"
Locked in front of the storm

There were already such attempts. With a person named a mortal, one of the former members of the anarchist community, which consisted of about 70 people and occupied the empty building of the Dzaltarang restaurant in the very center of Moscow, on Chistoprudny Boulevard in the 95th year, we meet just near the doors of his former “Housing”. Now here is an expensive restaurant "White Swan". “Toward the end of the 90s, a lot of money came to Moscow, there was almost no one left in the city,” he says. -At the site of the squat at that time, business centers, car services, warehouses, shops and eates quickly grew up. They evicted everyone with a battle. Strong boys came to us, thirty people, hired, as I understand it, by future developers, and simply began to beat everyone. Everything that we did with our own hands broke. We had a kitchen there, on which we, by the way, fed the homeless, and a rehearsal musical base. After that, we did not restore our party. ” "

In recent years, squat has been created

One by one, however, the pressure on them

The repressive organs provide serious

"Nobody leads the statistics of growth and raising of filtering. But even if you look trite on the Internet, it will become clear: in recent years in St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Izhevsk, Samara, Samara are created one after another, however, the maintenance of the repressive organs have been insistent. Petersburg Squotter named Alexander from the Anaarch-Communist organization" Autonomous Action "says that" new The surge of the movement is due to the creative or opposition to power, there is simply nowhere to stick out of legal ways. Lutti ”, the activists from the squeezed by the authorities“ saw ”, which existed for seven months, had to turn to the townspeople for help. implementation of their creative activity. Drowning is not just cheap housing for young people - this is a real way to preserve destroying, abandoned houses, the owners of which are often burdened by this load. We demand to stop the persecution of the squatter of Russia and St. Petersburg. We are for the restoration of beautiful houses of the old buildings abandoned by the owners, instead of which raider companies are erecting soulless glass -concrete freaks. ” True, the squatter ended with a less touching slogan: "Squit the world, e*and law!" The rest of the communities joined their requirements, in particular, also evicted in Fallout, which the police took with battle. “During the riots in Fallout, a squat pie was lost, the searches of which lasted all day, but did not end in anything good. But we, anarchist wards, will not retreat and we will continue our business to the end! The war for autonomous spaces continues! "

The symbolism of anarchists is a black flag or letter “a” in a circle
There is nothing to complain about

Voronezh has already won one such local war. The local squat managed to agree with the authorities and register himself as the Cultural Center-Community "Dawn". Prior to this, the Voronezh Excretion experience was not very successful: the previous two communities-the punk survival of the Renaissance and the ward to them. Friedrich Engels - a year after the settlement accelerated the police. The first community occupied a two -story mansion in the city center, which was in disrepair for a long time, cleaned the entrances and apartments from garbage on its own, scored the windows with boards and even spent electricity. At first, the neighbors in the yard took the punk for workers involved in the restoration of the house. But then Squoters declared themselves “the headquarters of the radical anarcho-punk community, the residential autonomous zone and the cultural center of the anarchist movement of Voronezh”, and the meetings and politicalzacia, which collected 50-100 people. It was already impossible to confuse them with workers. Suspicious neighbors stuck on politically unreliable "Renaissance". In turn, the ward named after Engels (the abandoned building was on the street of the same name) was originally doomed to failure. On the second floor, bastarders occupied 12 rooms, each of which lived its own mini-harness: from the "homeless" to the "drug addicts". In addition, the moonshine is a river. The Dawn did not initially provoke a negative reaction. His charter says: “The activity of society consists in promoting an altruistic way of life and pacifism, organizing educational seminars and watching films, conducting poetry evenings, apartmentmen, discussion clubs, environmental actions - such as harvesting in forest belt, providing social assistance to homeless people in winter and overnight stay for hitchhiker.” As the former vowel of the City Duma of Charushnikov spoke on this score in this subject: you can’t hold it here. He helped the children - and the point is with the end.