They really hid

Article by Vyacheslav Kozlov “Why did the organizers hide?” caused wide discussion in society.

The main topic of the material was the dissatisfaction of the relatives of the Bolotnaya prisoners with the inaction of the leaders of the Bolotnaya opposition. Some, like Sergei Udaltsov, believe that the relatives of the arrested guys are being “screwed up” by law enforcement agencies.

Personally, I am far from this position. Relatives, believe my experience, at the beginning of the investigation always make claims against the political organization in which the arrested are members or on whose behalf they act.

This is confirmed both by the experience of the case of the seizure of the reception office of the Presidential Administration (and 40 activists of our party were arrested!), and by the experience of 1999, when for the action “Sevastopol is a Russian city!” There were 15 National Bolsheviks in Ukraine.

During the process, relatives of political prisoners, seeing all the illegality, the falsity and vileness of the accusation, as a rule, change their position, transferring their anger to the authorities.

At the same time, in the case of the Bolotnaya case, the situation is sharply different from the situation when NBP activists found themselves in the dock. The leaders of Bolotnaya really don’t care about the fate of the arrested participants in the events of May 6, which I already happened to write about .

It seems that the leaders of the swamp opposition do not care what happens to ordinary citizens, whether it is a matter of searching and interrogating people “of their circle.”

Meanwhile, while the leaders of Bolotnaya are directing the attention of the press to discussing hacked mail and non-renewal of a television contract, activists and ordinary citizens arrested for May 6 are steaming in prison.