Polish obsession with a swastika

A new entertainment has appeared in Russia - the search and ban on swastika everywhere, even in the most incredible places. The wave of hobby reached toys in the “Children's World”, in the store “Technique of Youth” and the houses of the store owners were searches and withdrawal of aircraft models, in Smolensk a journalist was fined for the publication of archival photographs of the occupation of the city with fascists, and this is only the top of the iceberg. Journalist Ilya Shepelin specifically for your beloved samizdat “Batenka, you are a transformer” go to the depths of Russia to meet with a small provincial deputy, who was fined for publication on the VKontakte network photographs of a swastika fence. The deputy is afraid of persecution, so he asked not to name his real name and the city where he lives, but does not change stories: an incredible police officer on Swastons, buying alcohol at night, moralizing conversations in the department, funny judges and Russia-2015 in all its glory. Thank you, earth!

- I demand the name of the people! - The thirty -year -old regional blogger Vasily requires, exposing the pot -bellied eggplants “Hunting. Strong ". - Pickle Pivcansky! - Just in case, explains the regional blogger Vasily.

There are four nights on the clock, which hypothetically makes it impossible to buy alcohol. But on the way, Vasily recalls that he is not only a blogger, but also a deputy of the local youth parliament, who terribly encourages the regional blogger before meeting with the cashier. In fact, this parliament has no authority and obligations, and an official who constant this body is unlikely to remember its existence. The deputies of this youth parliament were approved by everyone who knows how to use e -mail and sent an application for the entry on time.
- The name of the people! - Vasily repeatedly repeated and pulled the bottles to the cashier. She grunted condescendingly and struck alcohol. True, alas, the deputy title of Vasily did not play any role here: a huge supermarket in the center of this provincial town is already trading in alcohol around the clock. At one time, neighboring stores were searched for a long time bypasses of the law on the ban on sales of drinking at night and, for example, guessed to install bar racks at the exit, which seemed to turn the store into a drinking institution. But large supermarkets of the city decided not to look for tricks, but simply continued to trade a booze at night.

We go out with plastic bottles to the street and get off the warm beer.
- No! So will not go! - Resolutely declares the youth deputy Vasily, longingly looking at the "hunt". - Let's take vodka.

And we are returning to a charitable supermarket. Seeing us with vodka, the cashier is saluting and saying, taking the bottle: “Well, since the name of the people ...” A month earlier, the city court recognized the regional blogger and youth deputy Vasily as an extremist, which he tells me when we finally take up the bought drinks.

Extremist Vasily woke up from a call from the police. A peppy voice in the tube introduced himself as Lieutenant Markov from the department for the fight against extremism.
“Everything is fine, you don’t worry,” the lieutenant reassured. - You just come to us, you need to talk. We’ll talk about the Internet, everything is how you love.

The policeman quickly dictated the address and disconnected. Vasily felt uneasy. “Usually, the cops do not call me,” he thought, not suspecting what reason they called him. At a meeting at the police, Lieutenant Markov behaved unusually.
- It means, "Adolf, wake up, the cops are fucking?" - the policeman played playfully to the regional blogger.

Vasily choked.
-Yes, yes! Mop the cops, Adolf! - repeated the unexpected phrase a fighter with extremism. Vasily, taken aback, looked around. The situation partly corresponded to the words of the lieutenant. But Markov still decided to explain. - What? Forgot? Well, I'll remind you.

He led Blogger Vasily to his table, took out a folder of papers from the nightstand.
- Here! Prints of screenshots of your personal page, on the website ...-The lieutenant hesitated and looked into the folder,-the social network "VKontakte"! Find out? So everything is written right there: you posted this photograph on September 17, 2010 - the policeman turned a photo of a concrete fence, in which, in fact, the swastika was painted with the inscription "Adolf, wake up, the cops are blaspheming!"

Vasily has more than three thousand photographs on VKontakte, most of which make up the subject of its collecting - concrete walls and fences with inscriptions. Most of them are either wittyly conceived by the authors, or so insane and paradoxical that they become even funnier from this. For example: “I am smart and singer”, “Nastyukha - male!”, “Who is not Orthodox - he receives by fucking”, “Baba is by no means a goat”. Not to mention those that become hits of the Internet, such as "throwing at such a difficult time for the country - stupid and mean."
“And look at this one,” the policeman continued and showed a sheet on which there was a photograph of a fence with a painted swastika, to which the dash was attributed and the words “Naziki will suck my pussy”. - Also laid out in 2010. You committed a crime - demonstrated Nazi symbols. This, by the way, will cost you a fine of one thousand rubles to administrative arrest of fifteen days.
- I'm just collecting lower folk art! This is like caves ... - the regional blogger Vasily tried to be outraged.
“I wouldn’t advise you,” you went on, turning to you, the policeman broke off weightily and reminded of the maximum punishment.

The youth deputy realized that it was pointless to explain anything about the lower folk art of the lieutenant, and quickly began to agree with everything that he was asked about, only occasionally indignant. He confirmed that this was his page on the social network and that it was he who posted the photographs presented.
- But in these photographs, after all, there is no Nazi propaganda! Is any image of a swastika forbidden?
“I would not advise you,” the fighter with extremism sighed and began to drive one finger on the keyboard in the line of the search engine Mail.ru Request: “Swastika Nazism is prohibited.”

The reports of the search engine with reports that, based on the last edition of the legislation, any demonstration of the swastika is now prohibited, quickly convinced the regional blogger, and he retreated.
- Let me just delete a photo? I agree now that according to the laws, swastika cannot be laid out. I'm not some fascist.
- I would not advise you. The case has already been launched, the witnesses who saw these photos on your page are interviewed. You will only make it worse.
- Yes, you have there, what? A special search engine for Swastons, or what? How did you even find these photos from some bearded year among three thousand pictures from me? - Vasily asked out of curiosity.

The policeman Markov smiled not without pride.
- All for himself, all by himself! On this old computer, everything spilled, ”he said, patting the gray system unit. - I found your page, you seemed interesting to me. And he scrolled, scrolled through all three thousand photos! ... Only you say: Well, why are you uploading so many photos, huh?
- And you just looked at me so carefully?
- Well, why. I am interested in everyone, I follow. Here are five more similar cases, ”the lieutenant showed the stack of folders. - In general, you are normal, I look! The main thing is that you do not oppose the law.

The court took place next week. The policeman stood next to the youth deputy Vasily at the entrance to the meeting room and fell into a incessantly something about the Nazi threat. At the same time, he talked with Vasily as an old friend. So old that I have already managed to get an administrative case on you.

“You see,” he said, “in Ukraine, too, it all started with the fact that there began to lay out swastikas on the Internet.” And what did it lead to? Orange plague! Maidan! You see yourself ...
“And if the swastika is Indian,” Vasily visited an unexpected question.
- What?
- The swastika was not only the Nazis, but also the Hindus, for example. If their swastika images are laid out?
- I would not advise ... - Lieutenant Markov was clearly disappointed with a regional blogger. - I would not advise getting to it.

The judge asked the accused Vasily why he posted photos with the inscriptions "Adolf, wake up, the cops are blaspheming" and "Naziki suck my pussy."
- I am collecting photos of wall inscriptions.
- That is, you are interested in this as a lower folk art? - the judge smiled knowingly. - How are cave folklore images?
- That's right! - Vasily was delighted with the clarity of which the judge was treated to him.
“Seeed guilty ...” the judge muttered fifteen minutes later in a tongue twister, reading the verdict. Before that, Vasily saw the judges sentences, only in the film Leviathan. For the fact that the accused repented and assisted the investigation, he received a minimum punishment - a fine of a thousand rubles.
- And I thought you were a normal guy! - The policeman kindly conducted the regional blogger Vasily to work, without getting off his wave. “You just do not be offended by me.” I'm a normal guy too! So only, you have to carry out prevention with people like you ... In general, you know, I am a fisherman! But I will never fish a network, only a fishing rod! Have you arrived? Well, see you!