"Life is the homeland, freedom - nobody"

Resistance recipes from Soviet political prisoners

## What is fear, political fear, which makes a potential citizen sit in a corner, like a mouse under a broom, whatever social disasters? What is the formula of creep and silence?

Just think, Newton's bin! I will tell you without any Mendeleev table: here is such a composer like the Erofeevsky cocktail "Tears of the Komsomolskaya Pravda". Firstly, hedonism, when a person wants not only to be well-fed, warmly dressed and have a roof over his head, but also eat delicacies in expensive restaurants, dress in chic boutiques and live in a penthouse. I have nothing against the modest charm of the bourgeoisie, with both hands for the rich and social inequality. But when in the 70s and 80s the intellectual in status told me, shaking like a jelly, that if he signed something or says to his students, he would “not traveling” and could not bring “from behind the hill”, I understood that he was not an intellectual, but just a bourgeois. And when today a businessman says that he cannot give money to a liberal, Western opposition (so that she will fight for his right), because he will not receive preferences or the Kremlin will put the tax inspectorate on his tail, the diagnosis is clear: before me is not a capitalist, but a slave who is afraid to predict the master. Only a second -rate person can sell the soul in order to go not to the Black Sea, but to the Maldives.

Crime of non -interference

In addition to hedonism, there is still a lack of civil dignity. Many sincerely do not understand that it is not enough not to do evil yourself, that if your state is doing evil, it falls on you. Read the Yaspers, "German guilt." There is not criminal wine, but political and even moral. You could not interfere? So, it was you who killed Chechens, planted prisoners of conscience, hunted Moscow on Georgian, canceled the elections of governors, dispersed the marches of the disagreements. You have blood and shame on you.

Cowardice is a dishonor

And the third component, from which we were weaned in order under the Soviet regime: personal honor. Fear, caution, conformism doom to personal dishonor, from which emigration does not save. You were kicked out of your own home. You were scared, deserted, fled, made what they "asked." You are in shit forever. You scared. Honor is not only for the officer. This is for a person and a citizen. “Life is the homeland. Honor is anyone. ” Vladimir Voinovich and Vasily Aksenov were scared and left. And Anatoly Marchenko remained. And I got 10 years. He died in prison, but kept honor. Death is included in a gentleman's set of a decent person in a non -free society. Readiness for death is a good tone. Cowardice is dishonor.

Being a person is hard

And finally, the last part of the cocktail: stupidity. When you exaggerate the capabilities of your enemies (that is, the Kremlin and Lubyanka). It is easy to intimidate not only a coward, but also a fool who does not understand their capabilities. Therefore, the slave silence of the vast majority of the intelligentsia in the 60-70s-80s (to the hump) has no excuses. Executions of the type of rations with a jar of red caviar, defense of the dissert, trips to Hungary and the position of excitement through a moral unit do not go. Decent people went to boiler rooms and concentration camps. In addition, it was necessary to get too much to arrest, Brezhnev - not Stalin, not even every thousandth took. Scientists Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov, Sergey Kovalev were not afraid to go to the concentration camp. And their colleagues did not have enough gunpowder. Being a person is generally difficult. It is easy to be reptile. I knew scientists who wrote in the dissert “according to directive documents ...” (that is, the decisions of the congresses). I knew physicists who almost fought for a place in the CPSU, lowered on a quota at the institute ... Sturgeon of the second freshness. People of the third grade. Supova set of residues.

The worst thing when they were arrested not you

And fear ... There was one thing really terrible in the post -Talin years - punitive psychiatry. It was really torture, and for many years I considered Cyanide the best gift to always carry it with me. Only no one gave it to me ... But even it was easier to dishonor. And I had never been so scary as in 1986, when after Reykjavik Gorby dismissed the female political zone in Mordovia, and I was almost expelled from Lefortovo, although instead of “pardon” I wrote that I intended to fight the Soviet regime until the last sigh. After all, they released only for betrayal! I seriously wanted to go drowning, until Larisa Bogoraz explained to me what was the matter. And how Lina Tumanova was tormented when, even before perestroika, she was released from there - to die of cancer. Everything proved that it was not to blame for anything, and the KGB was on duty at the door: if it would have become better, they would have been imprisoned again. The worst thing was when they were arrested not of you: it means you work badly. Yevtushenko’s rights: “In suspicious, a non -suspicious is a citizen.”

To the last cartridge

Yes, they took hostages, but it could be experienced. The Helsinki group was forced to self -dissolve, threatening to arrest her oldest member Sofu Kallistratov. And Malva Landa refused to leave this group, where there were several members! Sasha Podrabineku “advised” to leave and threatened to put his brother Cyril. Sasha did not leave. Cyril was imprisoned.

It all depends on the installation: what is happening? There is a war, bullets whistle, shells are torn. Around you, if you are a soldier, comrades fall. On the left, right, behind. Your house can bomb. But we must go forward, on the attack. If there is something to fight for. Who appreciates Russia, freedom and his honor. They started this war in 1917. And the war is not over now. We have no weapon. A mental attack, as in Chapaev, as in the film “V means Wendetta”. Go ahead of their bayonets and machine guns until they run until the last Chapaev drowned and the last Anka-machine gunner will throw off the overcoat. Until the last red flag is affected. "Do not lose heart, lieutenant Golitsyn, Kornet Obolensky, saddle a horse!"

What to be afraid today?

And today I don’t understand what to be afraid. “Yukos” and “Rosneft” are not for everyone. Many have nothing to take away. What do you take away from me? There is no more punitive psychiatry. For arrest, court and the deadline, you need to be very strongly substituted. A lot of stars should converge. But even now fixable. Do not ask for the refrigerator to the camera, but declare a hunger strike. 30, 40, 50 days - and you will buy freedom. Or death. For example, I will not sit in prison anymore. Life is the homeland. Freedom - nobody. Everyone is released abroad. So what to be afraid? They will not be allowed into the Duma? Yes, it is lost, this federal garbage can! You won't go to Courchevel? There is not enough for Seychelles? Nothing, in Sudak and Koktebel you can swim. Yushchenko lets everyone in the sea to swim. Will the newspapers and magazines close? First, I doubt that everything is. Secondly, today there is the Internet, as Samizdat was under the Soviets.

Seneca said: “You know which line is straight. Why do you need this if you do not know a direct path in life? "

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Valeria Novodvorskaya - at the age of 19 was arrested on charges of "anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda." From June 1970 to February 1972, he was placed in the Kazan Special Tulle. Three times condemned for dissident activities - in 1969, 1986, 1991. In total, she spent about five years in prison.

Andrey Sakharov - physicist, Nobel laureate of the world, one of the creators of the hydrogen bomb. In 1980, he was exiled to the city of Gorky for human rights activities. He died in 1989.

Yuri Orlov - physicist, founder of the Moscow Helsinki group. In 1978, he was sentenced to seven years in maximum security camps and five years of exile under Art. 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR ("Anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda").

Sergey Kovalev is a biophysicist, one of the leading participants in the Chronicle of Current Events. In 1975, he was accused of “anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda” and sentenced to seven years in maximum security camps and three years of exile.

Sofya Kallistratova - lawyer, lawyer. In 1981, a criminal case was instituted against her for “the spread of knowingly false information defaming the Soviet state and social system” (Article 190.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), in 1988 the case was disclosed. A year later, she died.

Malva Landa is a geologist, human rights activist. In 1980, he was sentenced to a link for a period of five years under Art. 190.1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Alexander Podrabinek is a doctor, a journalist. In 1978, he was sentenced to five years in references for the “slander for the Soviet system”, in 1980 he was repeatedly arrested in exile of the same charges and sentenced to three and a half years of camps.

Kirill Podrabinek is a human rights activist. In 1977, he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for the "illegal storage of firearms." In 1980, he was accused of spreading “obviously false fabrications defaming the Soviet state and social system” and sentenced to three years in prison.