Andrey Loshak: "Battle with Leviathan"

“Yesterday, Arzamas released its course “ man against the USSR. ”It turned out symbolic - Anatoly Marchenko died on this day exactly 30 years ago in Chistopol Prison. Gorbachev already began to love in the West, the word“ publicity ”was sounded, but hundreds, if not thousands of political prisoners, were still sitting in Soviet prisons and psychiatric cases,” the journalist writes on his page in his pier Facebook .

“Marchenko announced a hunger strike with a crazy requirement: to free all the political prisoners, kept it for 117 days and died under unclear circumstances 10 days after its termination. His victim was redeeming. Sakharov managed to inform Gorbachev about the death of the dissident and his demands - and a month later the mass amnesty of the Politzecs began.

Marchenko = classic type of hero. He was a simple working guy from Siberia, but with an aggravated sense of dignity. In his youth, he accidentally witnessed a fight in a hostel with the Chechens, the court, without understanding, recognized him as an instigator and sent him to prison. From this moment, his battle with Leviathan begins, in which he, oddly enough, won, however, for a short time and at the cost of his own life.

The anniversary of the death of such a person should, in theory, be accompanied by massive celebrations, he must open monuments, should be written about him in school textbooks on recent history. The fact that there is none of this suggests that we still live in the state of the Gabists and Vertukhaev who took revenge after the defeat.

Marchenko is forgotten - I specifically checked in Yandex.NOVOS: not a single mention of yesterday. They wrote about him only in the regional edition of Cogita, and even Republic did a small video about Marchenko.

Marchenko had such a simple peasant dream - to build a house. And the Gabists did not allow him to complete him all the time - they planted him. Finally he succeeded - he still built a house. After that, he was planted again - forever. And the house was blown up.

Once such a booze has gone, I will publish here another fragment from my script about dissidents dedicated to Marchenko. We almost do not know about him, but it was a human being. There are many letters, but it is very important to know and not forget about such people ... "