Boys and girls

Although our government is evil, but, unlike the Soviet one, it is weak-nerved. And she knows something that the KGB and the Politburo did not know - that she is not eternal. She saw August 1991, she saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, she burned documents and prepared to shoot back.

Icy, serpentine, inhuman malice has remained with them since those times in relation to their complacent opponents, who did not even subject it to lustrations. And then there was profit. Instead of chairs and sofas with a tag on the leg, palaces, offshore accounts, solid villas in limitrophes and beyond appeared. You can't take all this to Hugo Chavez or Fidel.

This restlessness in the chair gives rise to fear. And cowardice. And today's youth are from an unworn generation. These unbeaten Putin will not be lucky, they may scatter and disperse, but first they will stand in the squares and “buy” something. At this point of meeting of unbashed youth, who travels to Europe, with aggressively cowardly authorities, political prisoners of a new format will appear.

Young people do not have a name and reputation, until the power with its attacks creates it for them, they are not so scary to be missed. And on the eve of the next October 30, the Day of the Political Prisoner of the USSR, it’s just the time to sadly think about the fact that since the first day of this sad holiday, since 1974, there has not been a single whole year when the damned organs (with any three letters) took tribute from us in human sacrifices. And even in the first months after August, they had to beat off two young anarchists from them, students Rodionov and Kuznetsov, who allegedly cut the OMON officer’s jacket with a razor at a rally shortly before the State Emergency Committee, and the provincial cooperator Tenyakov, for whose release the capital exchange needed to hire a plane and fly closer to the scene of the drama .

Restlessness in an armchair gives rise to fear and cowardice. At the meeting point of the unbashed youth who travel to Europe, with the aggressively cowardly authorities, new political prisoners will appear

Since then, young people have gone to prison in droves for rallies, while businessmen have been imprisoned in whole corporations. Spies, at least something similar, with a suitable place of work, have dried up so much (Sutyagin, Danilov, and before them - Mirzayanov, Nikitin and Pasko), that the State Security Service began to look for candidates among human rights activists <...>

Did Kronid Lyubarsky, the discoverer of this day of struggle, think that a year would come when children would become victims? After all, the KGB imprisoned young people reluctantly, until the age of 18, Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR was not applied, they forgave (giving a “wolf ticket”) even for leaflets. His heirs were afraid to imprison Yuri Samodurov and Andrey Erofeev, but fell upon the seemingly defenseless "Puseys".

In 1977, the leader of the Helsinki Group, Yuri Orlov, was imprisoned. For the Solzhenitsyn Fund for Assistance to Political Prisoners, its managers, for example, Alik Ginzburg, were imprisoned. Young people - Tanya Osipova, Lena Sannikova - already reached the Andropov times, when the adults went to the camps. And now the authorities are shocked that someone dares to swing a piece of asphalt at an armored riot policeman like a tank, that young people openly do not like the army, chiefs, police, OMON, FSB. And they open cases. "Fathers" decided to plant children. Such is education. But there are no more political camps, the government sends young people to be trained by criminals. Such "universities" do not graduate humanists, other diplomas are in use there. And this is very bad for those who leave, and for those who meet them.

The times have returned, about which Irina Ratushinskaya said: “And the courts rumbled with deadlines, and the serfs issued an order: quickly cover up the crime of raised eyes with copper coins.”

First published in NT #35–36, November 2, 2012