"Work, work and work"

Honestly, we expected the worst. They wondered how many years they would give the head of the Karelian Memorial to Yuri Alekseevich Dmitriev, and thought that there were no miracles.

The train exchanged premonitions, but for some reason it was good for me. Believers friends right from the train, on an empty stomach, went to one of the Petrozavodsky temples, because there was a pure Thursday.

Then we gathered together in the Zaretsky cemetery for the memorial of the victims of the Gulag, created by Yuri Dmitriev. On the stone, which indicates the names of those whose remains of which Dmitriev and his colleagues found, it is written: "People, do not kill each other." A prayer was arranged here. Suddenly, a bright sun appeared from gray clouds - a good sign.

The court's corridor was full of journalists from different television channels, as well as friends and colleagues of Dmitriev. In Petrozavodsk, the new head of the Memorial, Yan Rachinsky, arrived in the morning train. The court hearing was also closed this time. Minutes stretched. The daughter of Yuri Alekseevich drank valerian. Ignat Zavyalov, the young man 16 years old, handed her his drawing with a portrait of his father, as a sign of support.

When the judge first left the courtroom, then the prosecutor, then the lawyer - Viktor Anufriev, then everyone leaned forward. What will be the verdict after an hour and a half meeting?

It was poorly audible, and we began to transfer the said to each other by the lawyer. And finally they heard the most important thing - “according to the“ bad ”articles, Yuri Alekseevich was fully justified.” The corridor swept “Hurra-Ura-Ura!”

People began to hug each other, and when Dmitriev came out of the courtroom, they began to rejoice as if another day of victory had come. Gloomy bailiffs began to be led out of the court.

And Yuri Alekseevich, already on the street, said: - I am glad that people representing the conscience of our country found the opportunity to come in order to support me. This suggests that together we are power. When we are together, we are considered with us, they hear us, listen to us.

- Yuri Alekseevich, what will you do next?

- How what?! Work, work and work. What plans can I have? I am the seventh dozen, how much more will I stretch? And so many materials have been accumulated that it is necessary to have time to transfer them to people.

Natalia Demina