How the aircraft handlers became the heroes of Russian Goskanals and fighters with liberalism

The once legendary art group “War” changed its views 180 degrees. Previously, they went at the forefront of protest, were an opposition banner, and now they praise Putin, approve of the accession of Crimea and ask for liberal Europe back to Russia, where they were almost certainly waiting for a prison. Igor Duardovich visited Berlin with Oleg Vorotnikov (nickname thief) and Natalia Sokol (nickname goat) and talked about what was behind their radicalism: principles, self -interest or simply bad character.

Anarchy - mother of anarchy

The War Family wanders around the German capital in search of an overnight stay. They have three children, and here they are still news - the goat is again pregnant, laid out a positive test in the village. On New Year's Eve, they again ended up on the street, began to bomb, warming themselves in the subway and stores. As a result, they still found housing-they seized either the barn or the basement.

Over the six years of European voyage, they were repeatedly beaten, including the police, twice chopped children, for the first time in Venice back in 2014. They were put in prison several times and in a refugee camp. This summer, the mother (the middle daughter) was shot down by the car. They equate their lives in Europe with captivity.

Now they are suing some “European human rights activists” who attacked them in 2016 in Basel. On the channel “Russia 1” “War” published a video that captures the attack. In the plot of "Vesti" they turn a whole operation: they steal a flash drive with this video from Swiss lawyers who decided to classify it. The video is really terrible: armed people in masks and helmets pull out naked children from the apartment, the collars lies related on the floor. What did the family do with three children so that she would do so barbarously, besides, not some hooligans, but human rights activists?

The attack in Basel, according to the “war”, opens up the true face of Europe, intolerant of dissent. In the comments and records on social networks, the words: “abduction” (children), “plaque”, “gang of extremists” appear. However, from court documents it is clear that the conflict occurred due to ordinary households.

Let us clarify who these "human rights defenders" are. “Residents and residents of the houses on Wassershtrasse, for the most part, belong to the left -wing circles of the Wassstrasse Union - this is a quote from a judicial conclusion. Anarchists attacked the anarchists from the War.

Initially, housing in the anarchist community was provided to the “war” for a short time for the opportunity to submit a request for asylum. They entered the apartment in April 2015, and the attack occurred in March 2016, that is, after almost a year. Throughout this time, neighbors complained about the “war”, they were repeatedly asked to move out. The anarchists until the last tried to solve everything peacefully. They helped the family, paying lawyers, housing and utilities.

Moreover, collars and falcon knew about the impending eviction. Here is the text of the ultimatum of tenants:

“ It is obvious that you wanted to spit on the rest of the people who have to live with you. You will wake them in the middle of the night with your cooking and loud conversations and completely ignore their requests when you are asked to stop. Only the fact that they are trying to be cute with you does not mean that they can not be respected. Two months ago, we told you that you should move out. Loud and unambiguous. What part in the word "get out" you do not understand? You destroy our community. I brought you here, expecting to give blood to intelligent people who will follow the minimum rules. But obviously, you do not know that people do not belong with such egregious indifference to the place where they eat. And instead of looking for a new place, you did not come up with anything better than bringing here new people who were not expected and did not want to. With this Sunday, at the meeting, we will discuss the ultimatum. If you do not get voluntarily, you will be evicted using the force. Just leave. And I mean now. Get out at last. The end of the discussion. "

All this clarifies the picture created by the "War". As the main reasons for the “persecution”, they indicate a refusal to ask for political asylum in Europe and an open patriotic position (“they had the negligence of saying what wonderful changes we see in Russia”), as a result of which they began to be called “Putin's supporters”. As we see, this is not so.

The family was known in advance about eviction, which means that the collars and the falcon deliberately framed themselves and the children under blow. Vorotnikov set a hidden camera in advance and chose the most successful angle. The scene was clearly stripped: he specially threw firewood in the middle of the room to defend himself. Through the hysteria of the children and the noise of the storming, you can hear how the thief shouts to his wife: “Do not throw it into the shield - throw it on the head!”

The main tactics of the current “war” are to bring problems to their escalation, and then record the video, exposing yourself to victims. Another tactic is to overwhelm the Internet with fused facts so that no one can figure out the situation. The distribution of the interview here also fits. “I really love propaganda,” says Vorotnikov, “and I understand it well.”

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The War group was created in 2007 by Oleg Vorotnikov, Natalya Sokol, Peter Verzilov and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

Activities - at the junction of actual art and political activism. On their account, scandalous actions “Fuck” for the heir to the bear! ”,“ <fallos> in captivity at the FSB ”,“ Palace Revolution ”and others. They participated in the defense of the Khimkinsky forest, the Civil Forum "Antiseliger", the opposition mars and other protest events of the early 2010s. Laureates of the Prize "Innovation". More than 20 criminal cases were instituted against the group and its activists, some of which are still in proceedings.

In 2010, the art group broke up into Moscow (Peter Verzilov, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov) and St. Petersburg (Oleg Vorotnikov, Natalia Sokol, Leonid Nikolaev) cells.

The last action of the art group, after which it actually ceased to exist at the end of 2011, then the activists set fire to a police car.

However, the collars and the falcon, having left Russia, continue to call themselves a “war”.

How they cope with "fascist Christmas"

But what if the “war” really believes in its performances? A person can be dishonest with others, but he has no need to pretend to be in relation to material goods. So, the thief is completely sincere in his love for expensive things.

In the fall, I was in them in Berlin. We came to the apartment, where at that time the family was “inscribed”. On the floor and in general, products were lying everywhere, a refrigerator was also clogged. Vorotnikov said pretty:

- You missed the most interesting: we burned Gaspacho. Now we have moved to tasting: we try different cheeses of the fashionable, wax the fashionable expensive honey, oyster mushrooms from Mexico, from New Zealand mushrooms, all sorts of wilder berries and just wild desserts. We <stole "the expensive coffee" Illi ", Italian, the best commercial coffee. All of this of two supermarkets - one biosupercarket, and the other - for people with money.

And further:

- We never go into supermarkets like your “five”, because there is hell. There are also analogues - Lidl. There are the most ordinary products, moronic salads in the basins ... Suppose, a film crew from Russia comes to us, people from Goskanal, affecting people's minds! Was there a shooting day, and what did they do then? They went to Mushnik ( grocery store, a supermarket, where, as a rule, the theft is made. - I. D. ), bought the cheapest wine ...

“I would not even have such a wine to wash! They bought it for 4 euros and still savored, they said whether it was better or worse than they drank last time. What to compare there?! This is feces, the last diarrhea - and now they were versed in these varieties of shit. Not homeless people, but from the TV channel! "

This attitude of the thief is not only to food, but also to clothes, and in general to everything. In Berlin, he conducted a tour of boutiques for me-somewhere they stole the expensive bomb jacket, somewhere fashionable tweed cap, somewhere the wildest boots.

Casper (their eldest son) showed me in Berlin, where which is a mushnik and in which what is better: "Now there will be a place where the nuts, they only need to be taken on the go."

“Casper, where was the worst of all - in which country?”

- Where is it worse with food? The Czech Republic was very tight-some shit was eaten.

- The food is bad?

- No, the cameras were everywhere there. Everything must be bought.

“To what? I thought. “They always said that they are fundamentally not using money.”

Today, continuing to stay in Berlin, they boast on Facebook with a stolen expensive food, hanging a photo in which everything is beautifully laid out - a bundle to a bundle. On New Year's Eve, a bicycle, a baby stroller and a large Christmas tree, noting the Catholic “fascist Christmas”, stole a bicycle - this is how the goat entered the album on its page.

I asked her:

- What is your main need now as women, as a mother?

- When we lived on the street, I already thought that any ass of the world would suit us so that at least we would not be kicked out into the street. Now I slept a little in a warm place and I think - we just need to return ( to Russia . - I. D. ), communicate more with people, because we will not be able to buy a house ourselves. It seems to me that I have to continue ...

- Continue what?

- Restore strength at all kinds of absorptions and continue to do the same thing what we did. As a result, we will have a house - and the children will be good.

Warhol, Ilyich and Thief

In Berlin, I witnessed their conversation with the Russia 1 channel. “War” was proposed to go to France to meet with Pavlensky and talk directly under the cameras “regarding the sincerity or insincerity of his actions as a political emigrant from culture”.

Vorotnikov came the idea of ​​the next performance:

“Warhol still came up with this. You can arrange such a studio ... no one hides what is being removed, and the conversation begins ...

“If at the time of some speech, when inspiration visits a person, and he will answer the question, I will unexpectedly give a person to the“ face ”, then the mask will fall right there ... Think, and you may have the Pavlensky, which is not.”

Pavlensky soon committed his “suicidal” action in Paris, and therefore “Warhol” was not destined to happen. But in that conversation, Vorotnikov formulated, apparently important things for himself: about the fake of the art world, about art masks, when "it is not very clear whether you are talking to a person or with something constructed?"

To understand with whom I communicate, with a person or a mask, I did not have to beat someone in the face. From the very beginning, Vorotnikov called me to participate in the theft of his video from Swiss lawyers and counted on my visit. I came to come, but refused to help, then they did it with truth-beets from Russia 1.

Further without comment - fragments of my last conversation with Vorotnikov in Berlin.

“... I thought there is some hearing, some kind of huge plans ( the Russian authorities regarding the“ war ” .- I. D. ). We understand that Russia is now a serious ass. Here people do not believe that Russia will help out. I think it will help out. In principle, yes, we are not going to return and say that, we went ... There is no mutual understanding, there is no conversation. We all perfectly understand how Russian the Russians do everything <ndermine>. That is why the embassy in Bern behaves like <fools>?! ”

“... And the fact that we go against ( with Europe . - I. D. ) is our gesture. In principle, nothing costs to have much more than this shit ( the current life of the “War.” - I. D. ). You can pronounce the same phrases, boring and primitive, but nevertheless people ( fugitive fighters with the regime. - I. D. ) do not need anything ... A lecture is taking place ( a lecture of the “War” at some university in Europe. - I. D. ), 15 pieces are unfastened for your lecture-this is how life is arranged. I don’t know, maybe it’s worth thinking? There ( in Russia . - I. D. ) what awaits us - 300 euros per month, there are completely different prices. Here is such a developed art system. ”

“... Love for the Motherland ... So Ilyich lived for 17 years in exile, and nothing prevented his identity. Then the Germans took him, put him in the carriage, and then he did what he wanted. "

“Man-Sobaka” Kulik in a recent interview calls Pavlensky “man-art”:

“Pavlensky distance himself from any comfort, any corruption - and with his whole body denies a dead cloud of social nishtyakov with his whole body.”

A completely different motivation for the "war". Vorotnikov, in fact, the "salesman", counting on suckers. In the 1990s, according to him, he traded shampoos-just then the famous and expensive Hed and Scholders began to appear. So, the young thief managed to sell a three -ruble Chinese shampoo for 25, claiming that he had the same properties. I put the difference in my pocket, of course.

This focus, which worked so brilliantly in Russia, did not ride in Europe. It is best about what happened to the “war” said in the new novel by Pelevin: “Alas, the Russian artist is interesting to the world only as <fallos> in captivity by the FSB. Titanic efforts to overthrow the regime, noise, stink, the ringing of broken dishes, arrest with the participation of twenty heavily armed garbage and other photogenic texture are expected from him - but when he is really free, he has nowhere to go. The world <Vagina> is not needed. Moreover, it becomes dangerous for her-and it is made incredibly burning-cold. ”

It is in this that the tragedy of Russian actionism today.

Igor Duardovich , for Novaya Gazeta