And then ...

Prologue

The beam highlights the female figure on the elevation, she stands with her back to the hall, in front of her - the crowd. She speaks to the crowd:

Woman : My dear! My brave and courageous compatriots! When my husband was hostage at the tyrant, when they threatened to kill my children, when I was forced to flee the country under the muzzle of a pistol, I believed in you! I knew that you would not intimidate us all together and not crush that we will stand under bullets and rubber batons and achieve freedom!

The roar of the crowd

I was hoping that together we would squeeze a single fist of resistance and say our “no” to deceit and provocations, lies and dictatorship. I waited for our general "and then." And it has come! We won! I love you! ( crying)

Roar of the crowd : ethy -ethnic

The first scene

A working cabinet, a window is open, music is rushing from there, the noise of the crowd, separate cries:

- Freedom! Long live democracy! We won! Down with eternal power! This is a victory! Do not forgive!

In the office, a woman - a figure from a prologue, ethepobeda, includes two men - her associates are unfamiliar and phased.

Etopobeda : Non -simple, close the window. I yell very much, I don’t think anything.

Unprofitable : but it directly starts me.

Phased : do not be distracted, we are doing the job. ( Gets up, closes the window)

I wrote suggestions on the Cabinet of Ministers. Let's call for tomorrow everyone on the list, we will talk first. And here, if you do not mind, I invited one creative guy, he will come in handy.

Unprofitable : what kind of guy?

Phased : Consultant Zaletny, from the family of emigrants, parents left in the eighties, a graduate of Nedworth, Doctor of Political Science.

Unprofitable : I suppose left to vomiting.

Etopobeda : Listen, well, not everything in the world is left -wing.

Non -simple : graduates of Nedworth are all up to one. Although let's look at this vague. Where is he?

Phased : waiting in the reception. (screaming) Vyletny!

Vyletny : Hello everyone! Congratulations on a glorious victory! To you, Madam Etopobeda, a separate respect. What are we discussing?

Etopobeda : The most sick question. What to do with collaborators.

Vyletny : Yes, this is quite a question. You have every fifth of them.

Unprofitable : it means so, let's start with the fact that you always say "with us."

Vyletny : Accepted, sorry. I looked at the cart “new power” in the last week. The conclusions are quite sad.

Non -simple : security officials, riot police, school principals, enterprise heads, employees of election commissions, .. but whoever you want.

Etopobeda : According to the coarse calculations, three million out of fifteen.

Phased : And this is also our fellow citizens.

Unprofitable : these are criminals. They must be punished.

Etopobeda : Do you propose to punish three million people?

Unprofitable : namely. No, not like all on the lanterns. In proportion to the fault. And this guilt must be studied, formulated and determined by punishment.

Vyletny : And think well, so as not to restore the population against themselves.

Unprofitable : the population still has no bruises from beatings. Their population is ready right now on the lanterns.

Etopobeda : On the lanterns, this is a dictatorship.

Vyletny : What are the suggestions?

Unprofitable : to begin with all lists of collaborators, transfer to the border guards.

Etopobeda : There may be shootings on ground checkpoints.

Phased : It seems to me that we must wait.

Unprofitable : let them run?

Phased : Let them run. Everyone will not run away.

Vyletny : Then you leave the question of Kara at the discretion of the crowd.

Unprofitable : this is not a crowd. These are our compatriots who suffered from their hands.

Vyletny : You did not understand me. At this stage, as soon as the masses see that you, power, are not ready to make decisions, they begin to act themselves, spontaneously. And then you will manage with them later.

Phased: Well, well, where do we get so many repression performers?

Etopobeda: Stage, do not even say about repression. Are we getting involved in all this exclusively for the possibility of repressions against those who are objectionable to us?

Vyletny: a vapor for a couple is needed, otherwise everything will sweep away and you as well.

Unprofitable: us.

Vyletny : us.

Etopobeda: Are you serious, or what? Stand up your right to hang in the squares?

Vyletny : As long as you have power, the people must understand that you are strong.

Etopobeda : Did this people bring us to power, and we - to show him our teeth?

Unprofitable : do you propose to cross all collaborators, hug and live on?

Phased : Well, maybe just publicly condemn?

Injury : well, yes, say loudly “ay-yai-yai” and finish on it.

Message Signal on the Etopobeda phone.

Etopobeda : In the lake, a group of protests captured the police captain. It is led to hang on the square. Some of the townspeople object to self -festivities, a fight began. The captain was repelled, put in a cell in his own site.

Unprofitable ( looking for in his phone) : Sergey Mikhailovich Kovsh, Ozernaya Internal Affairs Directorate, gave orders for detention in the square, watched the beatings in the site, then he himself went out with the words "Well, I will also open." He beat people on the lap with a club. Well, Ed, what will we do?

The second scene

Phased ( with a telephone) : River city. The chairman of the precinct election commission, Olga Antonova, stands on the square on the knee, shouting "Sorry me, fellow countrymen."

Turns the phone with a screen to ethos. Slurred noise .

Vyletny : What is there, I do not see?

Unprofitable : people are coming by, turning away, spitting.

Vyletny : as an option - lustrate.

Etopobeda : I think about it all day. To discriminate against simply by belonging to a particular profession means scratching everyone under one comb.

Unprofitable: and you remember now how much your husband was sitting, how your children were threatened. So scratch or not?

Phased : And if you just collect such a case of punishers, accomplices and publish. Let the people decide.

Vyletny : Stage, people cannot take something new overnight. You should have options. At your place.

Etopobeda : And yet, to separate the punishers from simply accomplices, the degree of guilt is different.

Unprofitable : let's now raise you from the camera that woman from the Central Election Commission, in the office of which you read the appeal to the people under the muzzle. And in another office, under the muzzles, your children were sitting. What to do with her?

Etopobeda: She ... her ... (he aces his face with her hands) I can’t. I just have a red veil before my eyes.

Non -simple : but she personally did not touch you with a finger.

Phased : And yet there are those who personally beat and tortured ... but there are those who ...

Unprofitable : he gave orders to do this. He called on the phone and called the punishers. I gave the punishers the lists of naughty.

Etopobeda : They might not know the consequences.

Unprofitable : Ed, everything can be recognized if desired on the Internet in five minutes.

Etopobeda : And if they, like me, were blackmailed by a family?

Unprofitable : well, you still have a tear over them.

Phased : Okay, but if you convene a folk gathering in each region?

Vyletny : Bad idea. The people are still drunk with their own victory. Most likely the most bloody scenario will win. And to get out of us.

Etopobeda : I would like without blood.

Unprofitable : how do you explain this desire to be beaten and crippled?

Phased : unflague, the country was in a fever for more than one month. Now we must return to a normal life.

Non -simple : repeat the pearls of the cockroach?

Vyletny : Guys, you are distracted. We need to make a decision that, if possible, satisfy us all, and then create at least the appearance of what the majority decided so.

Etopobeda : Do you know this decision?

Vyletny : You gave me a very strict framework. On the one hand, punish. On the other hand, there is no blood. On the third hand, close the bloody page. With the fourth, step over and run on.

Phased : What are we going to do with captain a bucket in the lake?

Etopobeda : Why not judge him? A normal court.

Non -simple : but because he and others will judge the same judges who a month ago carried out convictions by calling from the cockroach.

Zaletnaya : Well, by historical analogy you can dismiss all judges and put in their place graduates of law universities.

Phased : It would be nice to first find out who was built into the system and who did not.

Non -simple : months will go on,

Hall : the masses will get out of control.

Phased : And if in every city to choose the elders, or what? General voting.

Etopobeda : Stop, I have an idea. We had cops in every city who refused to beat people. So they need the judges.

Vyletny : but in general, a jury is also not bad for the future.

Unprofitable (reads from the phone) : The bucket was taken to the people's court. The judge will be the chairman of the strike committee of the Lake Machine -Building Plant.

Phased : This judge has already made a decision.

Non -simple (reads) : almost the whole city gathered at the stadium, one of those who repelled the bucket from an immediate execution, volunteered to be a lawyer. There are thirty -two victims beaten in the police department, and twelve of those who were beaten on the street. The accusation is the mother of two battered, one of which is knocked out.

Includes video on the phone, shouts are heard: shoot the punisher. A male voice breaks through the noise:

Men's voice: countrymen! Now we will solve that this person has earned execution. I am not trying to justify his cruelty. I want to say the following - who will shoot? You, Oleg? You, Ira? Judge Anna Petrovna?

Women's voice : We have a lot of people in our country for this, there were still from the cockroach!

Male Voice : So we want to use an old repressive system in a new power? Shouldn't you sit without work? What then is our democracy?

Noise, many voices, screams. Insolent turns off the phone .

Etopobeda : The question is correct.

Network : many years ago I don’t remember who said that democracy, for which it is not paid by blood, is not worth a damn.

Etopobeda: This is demagogy. Will you go to shoot yourself or will you call the Tarakanov brigade?

The message is tinkled on the phone.

Unprofitable ( reads) : Oh you! One of the former colleagues of the accused, Sergeant Slyunin, who also took part in beatings and torture, volunteered to execute the verdict. He appeared in court, went to the rostrum, began to repent and offered his services.

The scene is the third

Etopobeda ( reads from the phone) : the International Criminal Court accepted the case on charges of the former president of Derzhavia in the genocide of its own people.

Vyletny : Congratulations!

Etopobeda : The trouble is that you can’t send all his gang to the Hague.

Unprofitable : our task is fair retribution to the accomplices. To make it disgraced.

The message is clinging on the phone of ethypobs. She reads, grabs her head.

Etopobeda : Here, Tima, an illustration of your deep thought. “Dear ethepobeda, I, Nina Ivanovna Samokhvalova, the former chairman of the election commission of the Zavodskoy district of the capital, I apologize to you that under the strong pressure of criminal power, I falsified the protocols, demanded the same from my subordinates, refused observers in their legal law of monitoring and even called an outfit from the 22nd department of the police. The police treated the detainees extremely cruelly, in which I also pleads my indirect guilt. As a sincere repentance, I am ready to use all its knowledge and skills of work as the chairman of the commission for the good of the democratic sovereign. ” Address, phone, mail.

Insolent : bitch.

Vyletny : Bitch is yes. But I want to notice you

Unprofitable ( automatically) : us.

Vyletny : I want to notice that when after May the forty -fifth began to build a new Germany, there were practically no people who were not involved or at least silently not approved by Nazism. And nothing, built. I would take this lady. Earth will be in the name of democracy.

Etopobeda : How do people in the eye to look with such the chairman of the commission?

Vyletny : skills are still needed. Send her to Ust-Penzysk, when it will be necessary. We have no other people. These experienced ones must be carefully shuffled and used.

Etopobeda : Listen, Doctor of Political Science. I'll drive you now!

Valno : in vain. You are all sitting such sunny stargazy and do not think that more than half a day of fluctuations - and the power of your wet fish will float away from your hands. And to me, a few third -party people, this is visible. And since I'm in the team, it bothers me.

Etopobeda ( calms down) : Do you really think that we only need to hold power, and that’s all?

Vyletny : Well, what does it mean - everything? You understand that you are now getting out of the distance, and a new cockroach will come out of the corner. You have done a great job, now you need to keep the mined - for the sake of the common good.

Non -simple ( reads from the phone) : Director of the Knitwear Factory of the city of Shiroko, after the election threatened the protesters, said that the board of directors decided to write out cash prizes to all workers who participated in strikes.

Phased : You see, Ed, a man by nature, an adapter. It must be accepted and use. I think that not a single person refused this award.

The sound of the message.

Unprofitable : we were distracted from the bucket and his brothers in batons.

Vyletny : Cut the smiling faces. Like in a book about Urfin Jus.

Etopobeda : Yes ... yes ...

Unprofitable : what are you talking about?

Vyletny : about their method of lustration. There, when ours defeated, all the wooden government soldiers corrected the expression on the face to smiling.

Etopobeda : The question is how to do this with living people.

Unprofitable : I believe that a dozen two of the most rabid should be shot.

Phased : Will you fulfill the verdict yourself? Or - this bucket defender said everything correctly - to attract idle Tarakanov resources?

Etopobeda: Is this the only possible method of denacing?

Unprofitable : Ed, can you imagine yourself a beating man with your feet in the groin when he cannot resist?

Etopobeda : No, of course. And you know that.

Unprofitable: and if he had tried to attack your child before?

Etopobeda : Probably still not. Judge, plant, but beat unarmed? No.

Unprofitable : and if you are now brought by those who beat your husband in the cell?

Eth Poobed ( after a pause) : also not.

Unprofitable : because you are like that. You cannot, and you cannot re -educate you. So you can’t re -educate them. They can only be punished.

Phased : but not. The same Germans were thrown into the head in the forty -fifth that Nazism is criminal. And everyone knows this.

Vyletny : they know, they believe .... Let's just say it. Whatever they think about it deep down. The law against the manifestations of Nazism has been operating for more than half a century.

Etopobeda : So we need such a law.

Non -simple : both yesterday’s beaten and yesterday’s beaten, and those and others under the protection of the same law will walk along the streets - you forgot about the Nuremberg process. By the way, who then hung?

The fourth scene

Unprofitable : here, please, a message from the checkpoint 012: on the sovereign-Russian border, an attempt to break into Russian territory, a shootout, one was killed, two were detained. Wounded one employee of the border guard.

Etopobeda : Data on the detainees?

Non -simple : chief of the Internal Affairs of the Eastern Region Colonel Bryev, his son -in -law, chief of the city of the city of Khlebnaya Major Zaitsev. Both gave orders for detentions, Zaitsev personally beat the detainees. The murdered - deputy Zaitseva Senior Lieutenant Rylsky, followed by a whole list of victims.

Etopobeda : to reward the wounded. The family is financial assistance

Phased : And the detainees?

Eth Po -Bed : In the investigative insulator of state security.

Vyletny : I have an idea. A public court, and the judge put this woman from the Central Election Commission. She will take all the episodes to them, at the very pants herself was wet.

Etopobeda : Listen, well, we cannot do justice with the hands of the bastards.

The non -proceeding rings the phone, he answers, listens to the interlocutor and leaves the room .

Phased : Ed, how is Senya?

Etopobeda : Slowly gets out slowly. Recently, it was not beaten, but what kind of stress. They all interpreted him that I was in the next chamber, demanded that he write to me that the protest did not make sense and all that ... He said that he agreed only to confrontation. And then they were no longer up to him. Children do not drop from him. Lord, you would know what blessing just return home when the whole family is assembled. You would have rested me to rest, huh?

Vyletny : Crazy went crazy! You are a symbol of protest, you are his banner, in what peace! For the next four years, even forget!

Etopobeda : Well, when is my life when it becomes normal? I have been on the barricades for the last year.

Returns non -simple .

Unprofitable : there in the reception, the head of the national squad and the commander of the military unit 18-18.

Phased : they were the first to refuse to shoot the crowd.

Unprofitable : yes, it's them. So, they have foci of unrest in the city. The crowd surrounded the 3rd police station, the doors of the department are blocked. They demand that they be given this Inna of the kids who tortured the detainees. The head of the department says that she is not there.

Etopobeda : Well, this is a lynching.

Unprofitable : Ed, you still decide which side you play on. My suggestions are like that. Do not disperse the crowd anyway. To lower the order to the head of the department to deliver this shorts to the department. Take it before the eyes of the people, and to the KGB isolator. And also a public process. I can go there myself now.

Etopobeda : Take a dozen three of this part of this part 18-18, go with them, show the people, the department to cordon off, bring employees one at a time to people who are indicated that you tortured, arrest. The boss to block in the office until he presents this Inna.

The unforgivable leaves .

Vyletny : pulled herself together, and another person. Do not smoke.

Phased : although I would do it differently. I would not interfere with popular indignation. It is necessary to release steam.

Etopobeda : Stage, if the pogroms begin, then you can’t stop them without violence. Don't even start. All the perpetrators to judge. By the way, then let's make me a list of investigators, policemen who refused to beat people with non -negligence. It is time to attract them to work.

Phased : And what to do with teachers? The strikes went. Хотят увольнять директоров школ, которые помогали фальсификациям.

Этопобеда : С одной стороны, правильно требуют. С другой — многовато народу увольнять придется. Давай так: объявим выборы руководства в школах. С административных должностей их убирать, а запреты на профессию применять не будем.

Поэтапный: Представляешь, каково им работать будет там, где их разжаловали? А потом врачи туда же. Там в больницах и заведующие отделениями, и главврачи старались. А снимать их, уровень медицины уроним. Директоров заводов тоже как-то….

Этопобеда : Этапчик, ну, не могут люди подчиняться тем, кого за руку поймали на лжи. Авторитет заканчивается. Выборы, и все. Давай завтра подготовь положение о выборах в трудовых коллективах. And here's something else. Нам нужна реабилитационная комиссия по беззаконно осужденным.

Поэтапный : За какой период будем реабилитировать?

Этопобеда : За весь тараканий период.

Залетный : Ты, Эда, представляешь, что начнется? Они же захлебнутся в твоей комиссии.

Этопобеда : А ты представляешь, скольких оговорили, из скольких выбили показания за эти годы? Скольких арестовали только потому, что много знали?

Залетный : Этих скорее всего нет в живых.

Этопобеда : Посмертно реабилитировать. Всех жертв.

The fifth scene

Входит Непростим. Качает головой.

Этопобеда : Что?

Непростим : Ничего хорошего. Все сделали, как ты сказала. Начальник отделения через пять минут выдал адресок. Еще добавил, что вход в подъезд из окна просматривается. Там балконы парами, ее подъезд и соседний. Мы запустили сначала отвлекающую группу на балконе шуровать. Так она сразу пушкой грозить стала. Вторая группа пошла на входную дверь, она ‒стрелять. А последнюю пулю себе в голову.

Залетный : Фотографии трупа в прессу. Возмездие настигло преступника. Все в рамках.

Непростим : В каких рамках? Ее судить должны были.

Этопобеда : Скверно вышло. Но сделать мы ничего не можем.

Поэтапный : Значит, принять, пережить и идти дальше.

Этопобеда : А почему ты не заставил начальника отделения вызвать ее на работу?

Непростим: Она на больничном. Я после этого вернулся туда, в третье отделение. Рассказал всем, что случилось. Там мужик один аж заплакал от злости – что ж ты, говорит, меня не взял, я бы хоть плюнул на ее труп.

Поэтапный : Толпа разошлась?

Непростим: Разошлась. Там троих опознали как пытальщиков. Я их отправил на гауптвахту в воинскую часть. Вообще надо что-то решать с ними со всеми. Их же много, этих, которые били.

Этопобеда : Судить. И сажать за нанесение тяжких телесных.

Непростим : Я двумя руками за то, чтобы судить… Но тюрем не хватит. Три миллиона.

Этопобеда : Ну, не все же три миллиона пытали. Кто пытал, тех сажать. All according to the law. Кто отдавал приказы тоже. Они ведь сейчас как миленькие все расскажут.

Непростим : А если фото всех сотрудников МВД по телевизору показывать, каждый день, передачу такую выпустить – «Их ищет справедливость».

Поэтапный : Начнут повально морды перекраивать. У нас, чтобы ты знал, в Державии совсем неплохие пластические хирурги работают. Из России едут многие, там дороже это все.

Непростим : Ну, все равно, зерно в этом есть. Эда, давай, подпиши приказ по МВД, чтобы все поголовно сдали фото личного состава.

Поэтапный : Может, не стоит страсти накалять? Самых ярых народ и так опознает. А устраивать охоту на ведьм по стране…

Этопобеда : Никаких «и так опознает». Преступников надо судить. In law. А жертвы должны знать, что правосудием в нашей стране занимается государство. И никто не может заменить собой правосудия.

Звонок телефона у Поэтапного .

Поэтапный : Да, да. Сейчас разберемся, перезвоню. ( Дает отбой ) Пресс-секретарь бывшего президента заказала билет на завтра на рейс до Москвы. Из «Державных авиалиний» позвонили. Let go?

Непростим и Этопобеда говорят одновременно .

Этопобеда : Отпускать.

Непростим : Ни за что!

Этопобеда : Непростимчик, ну она ведь никого не пытала. Она выполняла свою работу. Сволочную работу, да, но крови на ней нет.

Непростим : Эда, она же их рупор была.

Этопобеда : Рупор, не рупор. Пусть катится, нельзя же вот так начинать с репрессий. Когда у нас выборы в парламент?

Поэтапный : Через неделю.

Этопобеда : Ты проконсультируйся там у юристов, чтобы сделали нам законопроект о недопустимости выполнения преступных приказов вышестоящих. Так, чтобы, если завтра действующий президент потребует на выборах накрутить ему восемьдесят процентов, чтобы каждый, от кого требуют накручивать, мог законно опротестовать такое указание.

Поэтапный : Ты что думаешь, письменно такие приказы отдают? По телефону звонят.

Этопобеда : Вот и нельзя, чтобы звонили. Ну, я не юрист, попроси, чтобы сформулировали.

The sixth scene

Непростим : Приказ о переаттестации милиции.

Поэтапный : Рановато для такого приказа.

Залетный : Суть приказа в чем?

Непростим : Публичная переаттестация с участием граждан.

Поэтапный : Чтобы они все бросили и помчались переаттестовывать ментов?

Непростим : Те, кого избивали в конкретных отделениях, эти отделения, я тебя уверяю, запомнили. И стопроцентно захотят сказать свое слово.

Этопобеда : Хороший приказ. Только я бы добавила ‒ непрошедшим переаттестацию запрет на любой вид деятельности с ношением оружия, обучению боевым искусствам и работу в охранных предприятиях.

Поэтапный : А что они делать-то будут, ведь ничего же не умеют больше?

Непростим: А это их проблема.

Залетный: Ошибаешься. Это наша проблема – появление массы безработных людей, агрессивных, обиженных и владеющих бойцовскими навыками. Это готовое подполье. Я не против самой идеи, но как-то раздвинуть ее по времени. Растянуть, что ли.

Этопобеда : То есть люди будут знать, что рядом продолжают службу те, кто их безнаказанно мордовал? Will not go. Плюс к тому, если проводить эту переаттестацию поэтапно, ситуация на КПП 012 будет повторяться каждый день.

Непростим : И судей надо переаттестовывать тоже. И журналистов.

Этопобеда : Журналистов, мне кажется, довольно будет обязать публично рассказать о своем вранье. У нас полно кого карать. И полно действующих законов – как для министра внутренних дел, так и для прапорщика с дубинкой.

The seventh scene

Этопобеда, Залетный, Непростим в кабинете. Вбегает Поэтапный.

Поэтапный: Началось!

Все: Что, что началось?

Поэтапный ( читает с телефона) : Сегодня в 13:10 в центральном округе столицы по вызову из дома 2, улица Солнечная, обнаружен труп Ермаковой Надежды Васильевны 1960 года рождения. Причина смерти ‒ отравление бытовым газом. В квартире найдена записка.

«Я бывший директор столичной школы номер один, обращаюсь ко всем, травившим меня. Когда в разгар протестов Этопобеда объявила, что уезжает из страны, поскольку самое важное – дети, ее никто не осудил, всем было ясно, что ее шантажируют. Тогда же шантажировали меня операцией для тяжелобольной дочери. От меня требовали определенную картину выборов на моем участке. Я сделала это под таким же давлением, как и Этопобеда. Но мне никто не посочувствовал. Меня сняли с должности директора школы, где я проработала всю жизнь, подвергли издевательствам и насмешкам. Вчера моя доченька умерла на операционном столе. Больше жить незачем. Будьте вы прокляты с вашей демократией и двойными стандартами».

Этопобеда : Ох.

Непростим: Эда, это неизбежно.

Залетный : Это просто попытка переложить с больной головы на здоровую.

Этопобеда : Хватит. She is right. Я уйду.

Поэтапный : Накануне выборов? Эда, это предательство….

Этопобеда : Это справедливый упрек. Я тебе говорила, отпустите меня с миром…

Epilogue

Этопобеда, одна. Включен приемник.

Радио : Сегодня в Державии проходят первые за много лет демократические выборы президента. Наблюдатели отмечают чрезвычайно высокую явку.

Звонок телефона .

Непростим ( по телефону) : Алло, Эда, я уже исполнил свой гражданский долг. And you?

Этопобеда : Сейчас пойду.

Непростим : Народу на участке ужас сколько. А в дверях встречает председатель УИК Самохвалова Нина Ивановна. Та самая, которая готова служить со всем рвением во искупление былых грехов. Как мы про нее забыли?

Этопобеда : Забыли…

(Curtain)

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Иллюстрация: репродукция - Эжен Делакруа «Свобода, ведущая народ» (фр. La Liberté guidant le peuple), или «Свобода на баррикадах» (1830).