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Hunting season for naked
The local authorities of St. Petersburg decided to put an end to the rest of the naturists on the famous beach "Dune"
The administration of the resort area in St. Petersburg decided to eliminate the Naturist beach "Dune". In the spring of the St. Petersburg Parliament, Vitaly Milonov, a well -known fighter with homosexuals and pedophiles, appealed to the administration with a proposal to close the beach, who, in his opinion, poses a threat to local residents and minors: suddenly, walking by the sea, will notice naked people?
The nudist beach "Dune" near Leningrad appeared in distant Soviet times. At first there was a military facility, firing was carried out, and in 1956 the training ground was closed, but they left the barbed wire, so people were used to bypassing this place. In the early 1960s, lovers of sunbathing penetrated the scrap of a wild beach. Those who shot cottages in the dunes or in neighboring villages have long been accustomed to the Naturist beach, who gave the area a certain charm of Western freedom. In addition, the beach was almost an island - in order to get to it, it was not necessary to be too lazy to go for two rather deep rivers. Over time, however, the rivers were shallow, and there were more and more naturists.
These people prefer to call themselves not nudists, but by the naturists . On January 30, 1992, the "Society of Culture of the Free Body" was registered, which became the headquarters of the National Federation of Nadurism of Russia and adopted in the International Federation of Naturism, included, by the way, in UNESCO. True, a year later, in 1993, the local authorities once again tried to get rid of the beach, continuing the Soviet tradition when raids were arranged on naked people. But the naturists repelled another attack, and later neither the aggression of the so -called "Cossacks" or gang raids were scared. In the 90s, the Naturists defended the authorities-apparently reasoning that there is no point in pursuing people who do not suit disgraces with alcohol and drugs and leading a pronounced healthy lifestyle.
The inhabitants of the beach in the dunes are proud that they revived the analogue of the ancient Olympic Games on a single piece of seaside sand: naked men compete in five sports, including running and struggle, and in every form, as in ancient Greece, there is only one winner. And many women, whose youth fell on the 60s, 70s, 80s, recall how they seized the ugly Soviet swimsuits with panties to the navel into elegant home-made bikini-the pride of any beach. In a sense, liberation from clothing was seen in those days a certain symbol of freedom-from the ugly Soviet fashion, including.
The President of the Society of Culture of the Free Body Kirill Vasiliev feels that he has grown into this beach roots, like his comrades, and even the surrounding pines. As a child, his parents brought him here, rest in this place since childhood became a way of life for him. He laughs at attempts to contact the police or the prosecutor’s office because he knows how many police and prosecutors come to rest on this beach. Now Kirill Vasiliev is once again perplexed to whom he and his like -minded people could interfere.
We are naturists, we carry out our ideals only in specially designated places and only in nature
- We are not nudists who do not care where to expose, at least in the stadium, even in Palace Square. We are naturists, we carry out our ideals only in specially designated places and only in nature. Well, still in the bathhouse, but this is another song. We have three clear rules: do not interfere with others, do not produce photo and video shooting and take garbage with you. It is clear how important this is for the strongly contaminated beaches of the Baltic - and now we manage to keep our beach clean, even in 2010 we took first place at the competition of the cleanest beaches of St. Petersburg. And this despite the fact that we have repeatedly seen how garbage from neighboring beaches was specially led to us to throw a shadow at us. I have evidence - I have repeatedly posted these videos on Youutube. We are conducting a huge cultural work, in 2010 we conducted Naturist Olympic Games, to which participants and spectators came to us not only from Moscow and other cities of Russia, but also from abroad.
Kirill Vasiliev does not exclude that the next discontent beach is connected with someone's desire to build a restaurant at this place:
-The beaches of the resort area, whose administration appeared to us claims, stretched for 35 kilometers, and we have only 100 meters of the coastal strip-and we interfere with someone? It's funny. Two years ago, deputy Vitaliy Milonov and the Commissioner for Child Rights in St. Petersburg Svetlana Agapitova tried to close us. Now Milonov again began a crusade against us - they say, we interfere with children and the elderly. But people come for years to rest in a specific place, we do not bother anyone, do not promote anything, lands on the territory, and maintain order. Yes, there are people who do not like this, they come, most often amicable, try to photograph us, we warn them once, we warn them, and then give them in the eye, but there are no complaints from the police for the entire time of our official existence! Why are we interested in Milonov, who should engage in exclusively law? This is just PR, politics, flag in his hands! We have experienced Soviet times, gates of work, I myself survived 15-20 serious "raids"-I think I will survive this one.
Why are we interested in Milonov, who should engage in exclusively law?
Recently, the beach in the dunes celebrated his 50th anniversary, badges were released, guests from all over the world came. Kirill Vasiliev believes that if the law does not forbid him to walk naked in the forest and collect mushrooms, then he does not forbid him and sunbathe naked on a wild beach. The activist recalls that 10 years ago there was already a similar campaign, they even took fines from the sunbaters, but then there was a court that ended that they apologized before them and returned the fines. The regional administration’s proposal to move to another beach in Smolyachkovo does not suit people - no one wants to spend two and a half hours on the road. Kirill Vasiliev is sure that people will fight for their beach to the end, and if the pressure on them intensifies, they are ready to seek help in UNESCO.