Leonid Volkov about the habit of arrests

Every time you ask yourself - what else can we get used to and adapt?

I know that a certain number of books are written about our campaign -I really hope that some of them will be added and reach the publication. I would very much like that in one of these books the phenomena of the perception of arrests of the collective unconscious headquarters and the FBK were investigated.

This is an amazing story about the adaptability and ability of the human brain to self -defense - and about the “banality of evil”, of course, too.

The first arrests of everyone shocked everyone, everyone went quiet for several days and did not really know what to do.

A year has passed.

- At the headquarters each time there is a beer totalizer for a court decision (the losers put beer guessed by the exact number of days of arrest),

- There is a whole subculture of jokes and shocks about different specialists, everyone knows in detail how the volunteers differ from Simferopol, which is possible and impossible.

- less than 10 days for a period are not considered, and in general, of course, "did not sit - not a man",

- Everyone knows how to properly assemble bags in a specialist, how transfers work, how to arrange a power of attorney, how to ask for a non -smoking camera (sorry, hut) and so on to infinity; The headquarters always have duty bags and responsible for their completion,

- After mass arrests, small parties are necessarily arranged (with a summary of the results of a beer totalizer).

Well and so on.

No, this does not mean that we somehow owed our souls and covered with a thick crust. Just no! I’m judging by myself, but I also see by my colleagues: every fucked court decision, each absurd protocol causes the same storm of emotions as a year ago; No one began to relate to the “judges” of the Simonovsky court, to echniki and other nonhumans, there is no Stockholm syndrome. These are protective mechanisms of some other plan.

We just learned to live with it. And in a purely production sense (everyone knows well how the responsibilities and tasks are redistributed when arresting certain key employees), and in purely human (our parties are certainly a self -defense tool).

On the one hand, it is very cool; On the other hand, of course, every time you ask yourself - what else can we get used to and adapt?

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