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Rock and roll for Ildar Dadina
Why is the theme of political prisoners in the deaf underground
They conceived the festival "Rock against torture" with the participation of stars of the first magnitude. They wanted to raise money for Dadin and other political prisoners. We wanted to show that together we are power. And everything ended in the concert in front of a hundred friends and acquaintances in the tiny club near the Semenovskaya metro station. Collected 29,400 rubles. This, of course, is better than nothing, but it is almost nothing.
Punk bar Vova understands me that everything is in order. Such events are held regularly. The anarchists are best done, this is a powerful subculture.
- Does many people come?
- Differently. It happens, 200 people.
He sings from the scene: "Freedom is more expensive than money, but the truth is more expensive than freedom." But, apparently, not for everyone.
Dadina's case had a great resonance. If you fold all likes and reposts on this subject, we get an audience that could fully fill the Olympic sports complex, or even more. Where are all these people? Mystery.
The understanding project is called “Politzek” and, in fact, consists of it. Vova looks strong. A track suit with rolled sleeves, abundantly tattooed hands, the cap is shifted to the back of the head. The main hit is “chaos around the Kremlin”. “I sing about friendship and mutual understanding,” he says. The thesis is for the Olympic.
The concert was invented by activists of the protest festival "Muse of the rebellious", which takes place every year in the Sakharov Center. In short, they are counterculture today. Direct heirs of apartment and underground concerts of the 1980s. Greetings from that era were conveyed by Sergey Popov, the leader of the Alibi group, one of the oldest Russian musicians in general, began to perform already in 1967.
The oldest song that he sang that evening is dated to the beginning of the 1970s. Nothing has changed?
- It has changed, of course, but the essence is about the same. The difference is that there is no need to lick songs, there is no censorship. Bye. Although at one festival I was asked to show the texts before the performance. And they call the organs periodically, as in the Soviet regime.
Two years ago, in Dubna, under the end of the circumstances, Sergey Pestov died, the drummer of another group of Popov-“Firebird”. The reason, as they say, are beatings in the police. Torture and violence for Popov are also a personal topic.
He sings the song with the words "the wife of an individual gave birth to a gun" and shows a homemade poster from the stage "#Enough to lie and fight." In the peak of the Prilepinsky action “Stop killing”, after which he went to fight on the Donbass.
“These people,” he says about musicians with militaristic views, “violated the old commandment of the rockers: under no circumstances to support the war.” They are not rock musicians, but rock fascists!
In the process of organizing activists, two clubs and several stars refused, quite opposition in beliefs. One star said that she was busy, and the other did not understand at all what it was about. Not a rebuke, but I can hardly imagine someone in the level of Makarevich in this club, with these people on the same stage ... Not that scale. And what needs to be done so that there is one? ..
Marginals, counterculture, underground. Not the slightest hint of commercial packaging, not the slightest desire to please someone except their friends. On stage people are in sweaters and jeans, in the hall people in jeans and sweaters. No need to work out, all of their own, everyone understands everything. Here is a gray -haired intelligent man, I saw him on the anti -fascist march on January 19. He walked and shouted: "Freedom to prisoners on May 6!" It stands in the hall near the wall and again screams the same phrase, with the same intonations, and dressed, in my opinion, the same way. At the entrance they smoke and discuss who was sitting in which cell. Without anger, without fear, even with some kind of painful pleasure. It can be seen that they are nostalgic.
And the constant sensation of the shooting, danger. “Like on the underground Seychena,” Popov told me. They can come here too. Nodovtsy, the center "E", anyone. The police came in three times. First, a district police officer, then a single policeman, and then a whole patrol. We talked, looked at the documents, left.
The organizers say: "Let's close the door and say that we have a private party." But in fact, this is a private party.
And now arithmetic, dry numbers. According to statistics in the country, a little more than 100 political prisoners. According to Nastya Zotova, the wife of Dadin, 15 written complaints and several unverified signals were received from the colonies. “People say:“ They beat me, but I won’t tell you anything, otherwise they will be killed and send me to the roostsuit. ” They all need to send lawyers to them. ”
And here are 100 people of spectators, 29 thousand. Before the concert, Nastya and I wondered that it would be 40 thousand. This is two days of work of two lawyers in Karelia, in the IR forgotten by God. But it turned out not 40, it turned out much less.
Nastya Zotova:
- There was a news that a check was suspended on the fact of beating journalists. Facebook 500 views. And some gopnic article about which women should sleep with, which do not need, might be millions. This is our society, there is no other society.
It is clear that the problem of torture cannot be solved. This problem is not even political, it is human. Why does one person torment the other? Not because of political beliefs. Not because of the investigative necessity. He just wants to torment and torment. And gets pleasure from it.
“We specifically followed,” says Zotova, “in February, Putin said twice:“ Guys, torture is not good. ” And no effect, torture did not stop. Photos are constantly coming to me at the post office, how women are in prisons in prisons. From the Kirov region came a man with traces of torture. The flow does not stop.
- And what is the reason?
- In impunity. Look. There are many of my friends, if I want, they will bind you, tie you to the battery and fill your face. And there will be nothing for us for this. Can you imagine?
I imagined, I felt scared.
- Do you know who Dadin wanted to become in his youth? Police. If the FSIN was reformed, it seems to me that he would go there ...
The concert headliner is “Arkady Kots”, our main protest group. Kirill Medvedev comes out in a T-shirt with the inscription "Antifascist Never Sleeps" and delays the song that he once sang on Bolotnaya:
Do you see these walls?
We all live behind them,
And if we do not destroy them,
Then by mitigation here.
Let's destroy this prison ...
And immediately it was invited by the fresh wind, millions of marches, freedom, something real, Neandergrath. But the last chord clicked, and I again saw a low ceiling in the club hall.
…Night. We go out into the street. Above the metro station "Semenovskaya" hangs the commune of the Rodina cinema. Next to him is the sign "Red Dawn". The sky is black. There are such nights when not a single star.