What is waiting for Pussy Riot in the zone

Former prisoners tell what female zones are and what Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are waiting there.

Masha Noel

Article 159 of Part 4 ("Fraud on an especially large scale committed by a group).
I served 2 years and 8 months, I was in a colony in Chelyabinsk.

In the female zone, no one drops anyone in the form as described. What sometimes flashes in the press - I remember such a material last fall - these are so isolated cases that it is impossible to consider them as a rule.

The female zone, as a rule, is the "red" zone. That is, the administration rules the ball. Hence all the components: Circusions, "Work on operas and security service", strong vertical of the day-time-waist-Opera-department/Security Service. Despite such a clear, perfectly working vertical (motivation is incredibly strong, this is parole), there is, if you can call it that institution of authority and reputation. This is a parallel, rather, a metaphysical moment, which in the female zone is strong without conceptual things (who has served how much and what account is the time, although in some cases women with reputation are not the first to sit).

If all this is translated into normal human language - honest, wise and respecting themselves and other women will be in demand. Not only nearby living, but also by the administration. A short sketch about how I was perceived. Once I gave Mahu - the manager of my detachment could not come to terms with the fact that I had some privileges in connection with my work on the radio: then I was just starting to work there, but this allowed me to be in the radio node, sometimes not to visit the charge (the one that is half over half in the morning) and not to clean the territory from snow/foliage, etc.

The problem in the zone is created simply. The manager came to me in the radio unit and dragged me into the opera, on the way, sticking all kinds of studs about my "e ** anetism and luck." Along the way, she complained that even she, who had spent ten nearly, and the manager, sometimes goes out "in the snow." Well, I flared a little and replied: "Who studied for what." In general, everything ended well for me. The statement that she wrote on me as a violator was considered only by the head of the detachment, and she told me in a fairly soft form that I was somewhat wrong in this expression and that "Stella was upset." This incident clearly shows how the reputation works. And how the vertical works in a clash with her. There was no punishment for me, no one called the manager and no one told her to her: "Do not touch her." The lack of punishment on her obvious denunciation is the best recommendation on how to behave.

The regime in the colony is much easier to carry, because a person after a camera, always closed space and unlucky light, moves to a small village, in which there is at least open, without gratings, sky. Yes, this village has a perimeter - barrel stripes in four rows. But this perimeter does not make such a serious impression as the endless corridors of the pre -trial detention center. There are no sieves in the colony anywhere (except for the schizo and PKT - a prison prison). In appearance, this is an ordinary barak-public with different state of everyday life. With a good manager, the detachment premises can be completely beautiful (with a shower, microwaves, etc.).

A good manager means a good business executive. To arrange life, he needs to be a good manipulator. All these benefits are acquired exclusively at the expense of prisoners. So, as the manager will unwind sidelits (the promise of parole or somehow more rudely), the detachment will live. Everything in the female zone is very similar to a quite ordinary woman’s hostel. Everything is like in ordinary life, only women at once and together a lot, at least 50-70. There is more.

A woman is a creature striving for a family. In the women's zone, joint farming is conducted in small groups, which are called - families. They unite, cook together, eat together, etc. No need to confuse it with "halves." Women's love in the zone, of course, is. This is not condemned by anyone, the administration uses this for manipulative purposes, but tries not to overdo it, because the intensity in such pairs is very high. Excessive manipulation or use of the depth of relations can lead to unpredictable consequences. Friendship, as in ordinary life, easily turns into hatred.

Situations with hatred are aggravated by the fact that you can not choose a neighbor according to the detachment. The wise administration (I have not made a reservation, this is a fairly common phenomenon in the female zones) will never allow membership. Well, if the girl does not see the shores at all, then she will be placed in a schizo. He does not see the shores - this means that it creates conflict situations on a far -fetched occasion, distorts events, provokes fights, in general behaves as defiantly as possible for any reason.

How the girls from Pussy Riot will sit, the question is still obscure. If it is given an indication of "fix", then it will not be easy for them. But, on the other hand, we do not have political zones now, which means that there are eight normal employees for two shitty employees. And another important point - people have been working in the zones for tens of years. So these people - they are often more people than free people. A large number of them will not draw conclusions until he recognizes the new arrivals. In a word, you need to steadfastly withstand the first press - the first few months. It happens to everyone, the girls even more so.

Inna Bazhina

I served 2 years without one month in a pre -trial detention center under article 188 ("smuggling).
Dali was 15 years old, but the article was decriminalized.

I was saved from the zone that the second charge was brought to me, and I was delayed here (in jail). I heard about the colony from those who have been there, and who wrote letters to me from there. I myself did not reach, so I can only tell about the prison, and about the colony - from the words of friends.

So the hardest, according to many, is the stage. On many transit prisons - dirt, rats, cockroaches. At the stage, the main thing is to take a mayonnaise bucket. In such buckets in prison, soups are cooked, and cabbage rolls are made, and then they take to the stage in the wagons. Two buckets are usually taken: one for water, the second - to go to the toilet. After all, we have such a convoy that it may also not be taken to the toilet. They just are lazy. One woman went to the stage, urological gaskets were specially brought to her, in case the convoy in the train did not take to the toilet. We still ran along the pre -trial detention center, laughed and checked how much liquid climbs there.

They told different things about the colony, it all depends on where you will go. One familiar accountant from Nizhny Novgorod is a good girl, she was immediately put in the colony to the post of storekeepers, to distribute threads in production - he says that in the zone it is normal, like a pioneer camp: flower beds, flowers, libraries, clubs. The only thing is that you have to get up early: the first shift starts work at 6 in the morning, that is, you need to get up at five. But, of course, he says, it is morally difficult.

But the girls have different, they have political coloring. They will be sent to Mordovia - this is an order. There is tougher. There is a climate, swamps, mosquitoes. They say that there is all the time water problems. With any water. They forget about hot girls in the zone. Why is all short -haired? Because the problem with washing the head. How will you wash? You can scatter with a boiler.

It is bad that the girls from Pussy Riot did not sit in the common cell. They are now sitting there so refined, among them the 159th or those who sat for a bribe, that is, people with whom you can talk about something, who understand what culture is, observe the space of another person. In the common cell and in the zone, everything is different. And they have no idea what kind of contingent this is, among which they will have to rotate.

I sat in a common cell. So there are 80 percent - people who have nothing to talk about at all. About nature and weather, it is better not to go further. One, for example, said that sparrows are small pigeons, the mouse is a small rat, and the elephant lays eggs. This is such a level. When you get laugh, tears flow because you understand the cut of our society.

Your education does not bother anyone there. There is a concept: you are on the bunks, and I am on the bunks, and there is nothing to have ****. If you start showing your excessive smartness, you can get it. If you provide help, give someone a pill for example, or help someone write paper, it will be appreciated.

The main currency in the zones is cigarettes and coffee, gaskets, deodorant. You can buy everything for this: you can wash for your coffee and cigarettes, and get out for you, and plug up your eyebrows, and make a manicure, and make a therapeutic massage of the back - you know what specialists, there are no doctors! I still remember the girl who made such a massage to me - corrected the back. The main thing is to be smaller and pull out everything that is good: nobility, mercy, kindness.

All believers are still on the zones. The most last drug addict, the latest gypsy - everyone is eagerly praying to God. There is hope only for God - other hopes for those who have already passed all the courts and appeals. So, taking into account the fact that the girls from Pussy Riot will go there with such a story - and on TV, everyone presented so that they desecrated the temple, not a word about Putin - it may not be easy for them. Of course, no one will beat them at once, but they can bully. It all depends on how they react.

The most difficult thing in the zone is to save yourself as a person.

Inna Zhogoleva

Convicted under Article 159 of Part 4.
I served 4 years and 2 weeks, of which about a year in the Mozhaisk colony.

The contingent, which is located in the zone, is a special contingent - these are socially failed personalities. For people who are used to leading a normal lifestyle, this, of course, is a shock. Another environment, other criteria of morality. People who have an education try to hold together, support each other. It is important when a woman has support from home and family, when they come to dates, programs, material support - you can buy benefits for cigarettes, domestic amenities. People who live in not low feelings feel like outcasts.

You can’t give slack in every way - they will still try to lower it. Not like in the male zone, but to morally humiliate. For this, regime requirements are used, labor indicators - female zones are all so -called red. I have not fulfilled the working standards - the reason not to allow you to sit on the bed again, to wash, eat, eat. The basic principle: if you have something in Baul and there is family support, they will not humiliate you. If there is nothing, another thing.

Directness is not always needed, it is not always necessary to tell the truth to the eye of a person, but it is like in life. They can put prohibited things, report that you do not observe the shape of clothes or smoked in a wrong place. Special snacks will knock on you if you are not in the general team. If you can repulse them in legal terms, they are afraid of this, afraid of legally literate. The administration does not need a problem, so you do not need to be silent. And if anything - let the family go to the administration from the will.

According to the regime requirements from the time of lifting until the time of the end, the bed should be “in the white” (a white sheet), as in the army, you have no right to sit down. But there are not enough stools, and a room where there are armchairs and TV, does not accommodate everyone and works by the clock. Therefore, you often have to wander, and you can’t sit on a bed or lie down. Of course, if you have benefits from the administration, you can sleep during the day, and if you are punished or an outcast, no one will allow. I used a pelvis for washing to sit down.

Even if you have something to eat outside the dining room, you can not always let you go to the refrigerator and you can not eat a sandwich. They simply will not be given out of harm. When I talked with men sitting, they said that there are no such relations in the male zones, there is more and more human.

When there is a family in the wild, children, it is very annoying others. Many have no family, children in orphanages, and they envy that you have someone to call, that they come to you. You are worried about how your child passed the exam, but they do not understand this. They sit, breed their chief in banks, ate - and are happy. We pass by such people in the wild, we do not notice them, but here you are forced to encounter them.

The working conditions are difficult, it is slave labor. The oldest equipment, there is no safety precautions, it is very hot in summer, it is very cold in winter. Girls behind the machines from stuffiness fainted, in winter everything is blown, and everything is wrapped in down scarves. Pants do not include trousers in the female uniform in Mozhaisk - it would seem why in winter to not allow fringing women to wear trousers. They check if there is an excess insulation to the coat-this is not supposed to, this means that you probably stole something in the sewing workshop and closed. Everything is done so that you come out of there not only by moral, but also with a physical disabled person. You are not there all the time. Even if relatives are transmitted, this is never enough. There are not enough fruits, vegetables, vitamins. You can not have tablets with you. If it is sick, only to the medical unit.

The regime is supposed to wash once a week. There are zones where, if you werehed your head in the middle of the week, you can be a report - for washing outside the schedule, this is a violation of the regime. At the same time, they demand that we observe hygiene. And how to do this if you do not wash again and do not wash? The girl went to wash the sheets, and she was stolen from her - she was 21 years old, sat for theft - she had a tantrum, we had to share excess (they were left liberated). She was pressed in full, because no one came to her and she was not brought to her, and she was sluggish, she adapted for a long time to this terrible situation - she did not know whatever it was to get up, did not have time, meekly demolished everything, and when she tried to snapped, she also did not succeed, and she was smeared even more.

Pussy Riot will look closely, check how strong they are as individuals, since there is a lot of attention to them.

If they get to Mordovia, then there is complete lawlessness. They said that there the head of the detachment in the presence of the attendants could beat the girl in the face for an unfulfilled job. In the Mozhaisk colony, more or less thanks to the head of the colony, God forbid her health. But no matter how good the boss is the system, there is a mode. They will probably not spread and press openly in the open, no one needs problems with the administration.

This pure women's army with pure grandfather, except that very strong beatings still do not happen in the female zone. The men do not have such a brightly exposed envy, they will not finish the weak. Here are women as more bitchy in life, it turns out there. You have nothing to eat, but no one will give you anything. When you do not have today, but everyone knows that they will bring you tomorrow - they will give it. And if they know that you do not and will not - they will not give. As the Gulag was, the Gulag remained, they are trying to humiliate you all the time and show that you are finished cattle, that you are nobody. You are not only deprived of freedom, you are deprived of a sense of human dignity.

Calls once a month, and dates depending on the mode: there is a normal mode, lightweight and strict. The usual mode is 6 short and 4 long per year, on a lightweight - 6 long and 6 short. Since the number of rooms is limited on the moza, for example, 3 days are not always obtained, sometimes it turns out for a day or two days, because all there are no places. If a relative finds a letter from someone in order to transfer it directly, and not through the censor, they can deprive a date.

The leisure life of the colony is a special article, although I did not participate in it. Firstly, she was busy writing complaints, and secondly, I was too worried about the family and I was not up to the ignitions on stage, such as Victory Day. Crafts, songs, dances - to the funny. But someone does from the heart, so, probably, this is not bad.

The salary of about four thousand rubles, of which they are deducted for uniforms, for utility bills and meals, and if in the end there are two thousand rubles, as I have, for example, this is good, many have 900-1000 rubles. And from this you need to buy gaskets, a telephone card to call children, albeit in an orphanage, and who smokes is also cigarettes. You come to boil once a month, the assortment is meager - one type of cream, one type of coffee - I have not seen such wretched products anywhere else. A very primitive assortment, and without family support, you cannot secure yourself.

Medicine is a separate song, there is no medical care, if you are ill, then you will not have to hope that you will be qualified. Citron is the best tablet, and if someone is seriously ill, especially if HIV, this is trouble. The principle is this: you are not people. Isn't that a gulag?