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October 30 - Memorial Day of political prisoners. But it is necessary to remember not only those who have already served, but also those who are sitting now. The wife of one of the current political zones, Gennady Kravtsov, talked about how he was sitting in the Mordovian colony

Radio engineer Gennady Kravtsov , a former worker of the space-Rocket industry, sent a resume to Sweden. For this, he was convicted of 14 years (then, however, they were “ate” to six). Now he is serving a term of IK-5, in the village of Lepley of the Zubovo-Polyansky district of Mordovia.

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FCU IK-5, the so-called “red prison” for former employees (b/s), here with “love” and diligence are mocking their colleagues, now already former. Momed, pushing, creating unbearable conditions. They take away food, newspapers, can hold in the heat and frost for six hours on the parade ground, if, in their opinion, someone did not say goodbye or did not fulfill the plan to sew mittens. Surveillance, snokering, walking only in construction, otherwise - a schizo.

Who is sitting

A former employee is any person who was once somehow connected with state or special services. The personnel military, an employee of the special services, the prosecutor, even the lawyer. They are sitting for different things: an employee of the special services killed his wife out of jealousy and received only six years (as a gift from his own). The young assistant judge handed over a bribe for the judge (at the request of the judge). The judge is on the spot, the boy sat for eight years, his wife, also a lawyer, is deprived of the opportunity to work in their specialty. An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who undertook to fight corruption in the region, was accused of bribery and turned over against him. A former lawyer is sitting, who, having come to a friend, saw that he was bleeding, called an ambulance, and he himself was accused of attempt, received eight years of strict regime. Another lawyer whom the investigator forced to give a bribe was caught inolocent in the investigator’s office - eight years and 50 million rubles of a fine. The boy, who was framed, asking to transfer the bag with drugs, was immediately seized and accused. The “spy” with the Georgian surname, which, on a booze, ranging the safe with important papers, received 12 years.

Gennady Kravtsov on a date in the colony

Someone has been sitting there for 25 years-crime from the 90s. Gene says that there are such sidelski who look like enlightened monks. They pulled their backs.

Telephone

After two weeks, calls began in quarantine, literally daily. There are taxophones, and the prisoners are given cards from which you can call. I put money over the Internet, and we talk almost every day for 15 minutes. Thousands of rubles are enough for two weeks. For Gennady, these calls are like air. I tell him everything that can be told about in 15 minutes: where I am at the moment, where and with whom I go, what I am preparing, what the children say. And these 15 minutes - he is in my world.

Food

At first, food was tolerant, almost “like in Lefortovo” - porridge in milk, sometimes even an egg. Then it went bad - rotten potatoes, sticky pearl barley, porridge on the water, a crossed herring, a strange soup with floating pieces of fat.

Parks of 20 kilos are allowed only four times a year, plus four parcels two and a half kilos. Gene often asks to send books that “eat” the set kilograms. You can also put money on the account of the prisoner directly in the accounting department, in the building with a failed floor or via the Internet, which you can pay for purchases with a local store. But getting there is almost unrealistic, it is rarely open, and if it is open, then the people are at work: who is on Schweik, some in agricultural work - there are greenhouses, vegetable garden, and a farm yard with a colony.

The cottage cheese is strictly prohibited - it burns well, and prisoners can arrange a terrorist attack with it

But the prisoners see neither meat, nor vegetables, nor milk with eggs for years. Once a year, they give an testicle for Easter, and someone in the agile manages to grab. There is not enough elementary - sugar, tea, not to mention coffee. In the parcels, too, not everything can be sent: for example, cottage cheese is strictly prohibited. As they explained to me, he burns well, and prisoners with his help can arrange a terrorist attack.

Gena has lost twenty kilograms, people there really starve. When I have to throw away spoiled food or attend a banquet, I always remember Gena and people in the colonies.

You have to get out and find prisoners to whom the parcels from the house do not come, and send for a small money to their name. It turns out that you feed everyone who was next to your family. Well, what can you do.

In genes, the products go quickly, he cannot eat one, it is shared by everyone-even apples and oranges, which I put in a box of two or three pieces of everything. During long -term dates (three per year), where the feeding is “from the belly”, he is always worried: the guys there are breaking the balija, and here I am overeating, it’s so embarrassing. And he is very trying to save and carry the remaining products for the children. And he carried it - he calls me pleased, fed everyone!

I was going to buy genes of food for power in a special store (near the zone) and informed him of this, but he opposed:

“And how will it look? I will walk alone, drive up? And how do I look in the eyes of the guys then? "

In a letter, he writes: it is difficult for me to be here, but not because of the Balanda and pressure from the administration, but from the realization of how it is difficult for you alone there.

Relations with the Entertakers

Gene is non -conflict. From the "radishes" is kept away. Once, having returned from work, he found things from the nightstand fell on the bed, was indignant. It turns out that a certain Dagestan, the holder of the “huts”, accepted the new one, himself occupied someone else's bedside table in addition to his own, and the genes were released for the newly arrived. Gene very firmly, without assault, stood intelligently for himself. That Dagestan lost his regiment. “True, he is now not greeting me, and do not care,” said the husband.

Gene is a sacrificial person by nature. In the colony, he surrounded himself with people who need to be taken care of. These are people who have either relatives or no funds, or relatives are very far away, or simply unfairly accused people. At his request, I will pay someone a lawyer, then I transfer money to accounts, then sending parcels designed for everyone, then I call the already released and are interested in their fate. He arranges for comrades in misfortune holidays with “delicacies”, which I carefully choose from what is permissible.

It sometimes angers me. Well, what to do. The same one itself. He worries for everything and everyone. For the "Bolotnikov", for Mokhnatkina, for Navalny, for Pichugin, for the defeated PMCs. He monitors the events of Novaya Gazeta - I wrote it to him, bring it in packs, several pieces at once. And then Gena has a holiday.

The former service service, who killed his wife, is following Gennady. He sits down to him on the “Schweik”, starts conversations in the dining room. Checks for reliability:

- And what do you think will come, and they will say the “Putin regime”?

- It will come! Necessarily! It has already come. Do not hesitate!

My tips do not help not to enter into a conversation.

Leisure

At first, Gennady disappeared in the club, carried away. He went every day, played his repertoire on the guitar, sang Yuri Naumov, the Zero group, BG, Shevchuk and others like them.

By May 9, he asked me to send disks with military films - a package for the club.

On Victory Day, he sang something from the Soviet military songs. Then he was asked to sing a pop reperture at a concert, he stumbled, did not want to.

"I do not like and I will not."

Gennady Kravtsov with children on a date in a colony photo: From a personal archive

Therefore, the club did not work out. I moved to the library. There, the boss is a colonel-bib. Gene was able to make an electronic file cabinet. They sorted out books, rewritten. The boss dictates - Gene drives. Gene laughs at his lack of culture: does not know the authors at all, does not understand what sections what to put in.

“Yes, what a librarian you are, Mikhalych,” Gene laughs.

Mikhalych is offended:

- Do not dare, do not dare like that with me. I commanded a company. I am a colonel! - goes to the screech.

- Well, you, Mikhalych, come on, you won’t call me a spy. What kind of spy I am to you, in FIG?

“Lada, Lada,” says Mikhalych, “hands.” You do not compromise me, and I am you.

But if a new reader is included in the library, Mikhalych cannot but boast:

- Look who I have here. Spy. Real. He worked for Swedish intelligence.

There is no time to read, but he reads a lot. Sakharov, Leskova, Shalamova, fiction, journalism. These are the rare minutes, the watch of happiness that he eagerly catches there. Well, of course, a bathhouse.

Relations with the authorities

As long as there was an old boss, everything was not bad: although the colonists believed that there was no worse and anger boss in this colony. But everything is known in comparison.

The new one decided to please the authorities, become noticeable, gain a foothold.

How? It is necessary to fulfill and overfulfill the plan. They began to call ZK for the commission. Talk, frighten, shame, blame, promise.

They called the gene.

- What is not fulfilling the plan? The Mordovian lads asked brazenly.

“There are many factors for this,” Gene answered just as brazenly. -Firstly, I still have little experience. Secondly, I try to sew high quality, and thirdly, all the cars are gag. How to fulfill such a plan?

Look who I have here. Spy. Real. He worked for Swedish intelligence

-Chi-i-Ivo? Would you like to go to a schizo? Yes, like you, our homeland shot!

Gene came to the hut and saw that everything was rummaged, an additional blanket was taken, a handbag for transferring showers - it was not supposed to, the nightstand was turned, looked zealously, things were scattered throughout the barracks.

They began to call often, scare the schizo and promise parole if they stay on the extension. That is, a 14-hour working day is normal.

“Let the schizo, I'm ready. Shiso is so schizo. "

Well, what to do with him? My exhortations, in order to be silent, do not help the metal beads in front of the pigs. This is the whole gene.

He does not want to get out of work with money in any:

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“I will not allow corruption. I sat down for this, you can say, and now I myself will encourage this? No!"

Support from will

Gene is very happy about letters from the will, waiting for them. When I was imprisoned, new correspondence friends appeared. He praised that a postcard came on a birthday with signatures from strangers. The postman asked: "What is it?"

Gene explained that he was political prisoner, and this is his support for caring people from the will. The woman was surprised. What other political prisoners?

Gennady was born on October 30. Today he turns 48 years old. He had three years and seven months to sit. For which he was put, you can read here .