Letter from the pre -trial detention center (08/16/2012)

I do not cause anger the fact that I am sitting. I do not hold evil. Personal evil - no. But there is a political evil. Our imprisonment serves as a clear and distinct sign that freedom is taken from the whole country. And this threat of destroying the liberation, emancipation forces of Russia is what makes me be angry. In the small you see a large, in the sign - a tendency, in the private - general.

Feminists of the second wave said: "Personal is political." This is true. The PR case showed how the private problems of the three people accused of hooliganism can give life to a political movement. A special case of suppression and persecution of those who dared to take a word in an authoritarian country stirred up the world: activists, punks, pop stars and members of governments, comedians and environmentalists, feminists and masculinists, Islamic theologians and Christians who pray for PR. Personal became true. Case PR gathered together so multidirectional forces that it is still difficult for me to believe that this is not a dream. There is an incredible for modern Russian politics: demanding, stubborn, powerful and consistent influence of society on power.

I am grateful to everyone who said: "Freedom PR!". We are now forming a large and important political event, and the Putin system is increasingly difficult to cope with it. Whatever the sentence PR, we and you are already winning. Because we have learned to be angry and speak politically.

PR are happy that they were able to excite on a truly collective action and that your political passion was so strong that it overcame the barriers of languages, cultures, life worlds, economic and political statuses. Kant would say that he does not see any other reason for this miracle, in addition to the moral beginning in humanity. Thank you for the miracle.

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