Translated material
If we were silent - who are we?
For almost a month there is no news about where Nadezhda Tolokonnikov is. Her last publication in The New Times was about orders in IK-14, from where she was taken out in an unknown direction 
Do I believe that the certificate (about life in the colony) will break the punitive machine? No. Do I know the price of certificates from places of imprisonment? Yes, for convicts - this is the price of their early liberation, and in places such as Mordovian colonies, it is, perhaps, the price of their life.
Few understand how much the evidence is, even less the number of those who put resistance as a life -forming principle. But if we did not testify and did not resist, if we knew, passed, but we were silent somewhere, but somewhere intentionally we preferred not to see, then who are we?
Is this a person? - Such a question was asked by the Italian chemist, prisoner of the concentration camp Primo Levy, recalling camp goners. The system is pale, submissive, deprived of themselves as personalities, as people. Which have become below the bottom, below any permissible limit. With their existence, they refuted the permissibility of such limits.
“We don’t have a gulag,” said an employee of the 28th colony with a grin. Not a gulag, but the rod is the same - hereditary, union. And if we do not have a gulag, then why do infants go in a car carrier, like criminals? Why do children go in Stolypin with their mothers who do not even know how far they will take them?
I also did not know how far I would be taken away. But the FSIN of Russia knew this on August 30, 2012. The additions to the verdict have not yet been filed, the meeting has not yet been scheduled, where we can be justified, and there is an indication of my stage in the Berezniki, here is its number-No. 12-16991-07 of 08/30/12. Needless to say that before that from Moscow to Berezniki did not transfer anyone in principle? "
If we do not have a gulag, then why do inflorescences go in a car carrier, as criminals?
“The colony is especially acutely raised by the issue of honesty in front of yourself, here every situation of this honesty is an indicator. You fall into the space of maximum awareness, although everything around is arranged so as to plunge you into oblivion.
When we, 12 people, in the late evening of October were imprisoned and sent from Moscow by stage, I was in oblivion. Further events in Berezniki consistently accustomed to the fact that now they would have to live in a deaf defense, and the law must be defended primarily from those who are designed to protect it.
For some reason, it is generally accepted that the total evil in conclusion has the form of a dark chamber and a formidable club. This is wrong.
Evil is in everyday life and the usual gesture with which they turn a blind eye and dismiss from human disaster, like from an annoying fly. And there is no longer a difference between the vertukha and the convict, human rights activist and prosecutor. The indifference became their common denominator.
All that can make them move is shouting the authorities, and if there is no team, then a person in Russia can lie down and die, not hoping for the reaction and help. In this state of affairs, one does not need to look for excuses, we must look for changes.
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