Kirill Rogov: "The Logic of the Gulag"

"The fact that the Mosgorsud was the strength of the verdict by Vladislav Sinitsa is a villainy. And in my understanding, a pure crime, exactly the same as the verdict itself. Because there can not be a legal order in which a person does not even contain a direct call for violence for five years. This is an unlawful order. And honest citizens cannot consider him otherwise," the political scientist writes on his page in his page. Facebook .

“But when we write: 5 years of prison for words is a crime, we are not very adequately convey the essence of this case. We are not talking about punishment for words, we are talking about something more and worst.

It is easy to notice that the case of a tint and the parallel unfolding business Svetlana Prokopyeva is a kind of twin. The problem that Svetlana Prokopyeva formulated quite responsibly and insightfully is becoming a key for modern Russian society. This is the problem of excessive and illegitimate state violence.

The responsible state seeks to avoid excessive violence, because, conflicting with the natural idea of ​​justice, it undermines statehood twice - it simultaneously provokes response violence (and hence the costs of its suppression) and undermines the idea of ​​the legitimacy of state violence. It puts society on the brink of war, it puses a threat to the collapse of the legal and legal order. And to write and discuss this not only not criminal, but absolutely necessary.

Twit of tits is an emotional and rather stupid reaction to excess violence by the police during summer Moscow rallies. But the criminalization of this emotionality and unjustified, godless cruelty of punishment is not associated with the nature of the act of Vladislav Tsitsa, they are associated with the desire to justify and affirm the legality of the excess violence that the tweet provoked. Become his indulgence.

They continue to stuff us into the logic of the Stalinist Gulag. The Stalinist executioners and executioners and executioners attributed to the accused the most incredible terrorist plans to justify the terror that the state itself unleashed against citizens. And these logic of the demonstrative punishment of “imaginary violence”, which should justify the real and unlawful state violence, allow us to see not only the parallelism of the Prokofieva case and the business of the title, but also their connection with the affairs of the “network”* and “new greatness”, where this desire to fabricate terror is completely undeaded to justify the “response” terror.

Do not let yourself be drawn into the logic of the Gulag. They are right here, very close. "