You can't forbid being afraid

Maxim Luzyanin fully admitted his guilt, so the case was considered in a special manner. The judge noted that she took into account mitigating circumstances: admission of guilt, assistance in the investigation, the presence of a minor child and a dependent mother. After which she sentenced the defendant in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya to 4.5 years in a general regime colony.

I feel incredibly sorry for this guy. In general, I am already an elderly and sentimental person, I feel sorry for everyone. And clearly, indisputably and undoubtedly innocently condemned - God himself commanded. And yet, at the same time, I don’t feel sorry for him at all. In relation to an absolutely, in my opinion, unfairly sentenced to a serious prison term, this feeling is shameful and wrong. And now I will try, if not to justify myself, then at least to explain it.

I have met in life, and observed from the side, and communicated quite closely with both snotty girls and ugly intellectuals, who could not be broken not only by any cruel interrogations, but also by years of the harshest camps. And I saw athletes, people with picturesquely courageous faces and steely eyes, who began to tremble as soon as the investigator menacingly tapped his pencil on the table, and they signed anything and slandered anyone. It happened, of course, the other way around. But this “on the contrary” still looked somewhat more natural. Although, I think, only at first glance.

Now listen to me carefully. I’m not a criminal, I’m not a big dissident, and I didn’t spend a minute in the camp. True, he was under investigation many times and spent quite a lot of time in prisons of various kinds by human standards. Which, of course, does not make me a great authority on such matters.

But that’s not the main thing at all. I’m just a standard person, like many in our country, a descendant of prisoners in three generations, I grew up in Kolyma and lived my whole life among people who had just gotten out, who were always ready to land and who were constantly landing. And I know one simple rule for sure. Well known to all my peers and fellow citizens without exception. Keep quiet and don't fall for all their rotten schemes. It's not a fact that it will be better. It’s not a fact that it won’t even get worse. But in any case, at least there is a chance that you will maintain your self-esteem. Otherwise, there is no chance of this. At all. And no matter what.

They are non-humans. You cannot trust them or ask them for anything. I subscribe and answer for my words. You can present it.

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