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Natasha's space
The 25-year-old Natasha has such lines:
Like the Army Army Soldiers,
Like an Andersen soldier,
I'm not in business. I am a poetry,
Sadly unable to lie.
Everything is no coincidence here, including the mention of the Anders army. Natasha was close to Poland all her life and eventually became a Polish citizen. But the main thing is “poetry”, “not in business”. It was a matter for her, and the human rights movement became a deed. Natasha became the founder and first editor of the non -certificate bulletin of human rights activists of the Chronicle of Current Events, who existed, like no other unjust magazine, for 15 years, despite the arrests of all its compilers one after another.
Natasha is a participant in the demonstration on August 25, 1968 against the entry of troops into Czechoslovakia. This episode is most remembered by people. But in fact, Natasha is a man of labor, and in human rights work she also took over the most difficult, the most black works: collecting information, comparing her, crushing on topics. The same black work is working with information. She came up with this work, in fact, her founder. She paid a crazy house, she was declared a patient. Although many were outraged that Natasha went out with a small child for a demonstration, for her it was absolutely natural, she never separated her children from her own.
Then - "Russian thought", "continent", in which she, just as in the "Chronicle of current events", pulled all the huge editorial work on herself. Poetry, poetry and poetry. An amazing poet, an amazing worker, an amazing mother and grandmother, uniting all her children around him, all her grandchildren. And a huge number of young people, who also called her Natasha, for whom her poems and fate were always not a model, but some kind of password: I love Gorbanevskaya. And now she was buried almost in the center of Paris, in the Pere Lashez cemetery, and this is not far from the place where she lived and where her children live. A happy fate, and we are happy, who were her friends.
The Soviet human rights movement itself was the core of a much wider dissident movement, which included national movements, religious movements, and emigration movements, and many others. In the center, in the core was human rights, which spoke the language of law, which connected people among themselves and made it possible to speak with the authorities. And the "chronicle of current events" is just a point, the focus of all these different movements, a translation into this language, where they united for each other and for the world. The meaning of the "chronicle", of course, is huge: it is a completely independent information space, and this space was truly created by Natasha. She simply took and began to do.
Sasha Podrabinek told how Natasha, in one of her first visits to Russia after emigration, found him at work on the “express chronicle”: a blockage, it was necessary to release the next day, and she sat nearby and did not get up for four hours, did not even smoke. She did a cool, masterfully, did an editorial and compaction work, which she was not at all to do.
Natasha was a man of a bright mind, very systematic, with a beautiful Russian language, an amazing Russian language, and not a state-of-hazardous. Yes, she came up with him in many ways - this Russian language of independent information.
Arseny Roginsky - historian, human rights activist, chairman of the board of the Memorial society