First triumph. Then the arrests. Now we decided to combine

In Murmansk, on the day of Russia, demonstrations of the FSIN employees were held. The holiday freely (for now!) Was observed the correspondent of "New"

In Murmansk, the main characters of the holiday in honor of the Day of Russia were FSIN employees. The usual citizens in plastic kokoshniki and round dances on the stage gave way to a minted step and people in camouflage: in the city center there were demonstrations of the prison department, and a tent with samples of products manufactured by the prisoners of the colonies was located next to the folk crafts.

The approaches to the area of ​​five corners were blocked in the morning. The Cordon of the traffic police walked in uniforms with shepherds. Further, in the solemn construction for the acceptance of the oath, the FSINS "recruits" lined up. Against the backdrop of the construction, special forces showed demonstration detention - however, only statists were “detained”, strictly according to the script. The next paragraph of the program is an exhibition of imprisonment achievements: in a striped tent, near which a long -legged young lady in an officer tunic and a very short skirt was missing, we could get acquainted with wood carvings - of course, strictly on the topic of patriotism.

In the Murmansk region, there are now six colonies, in each something is drunk. However, not only wooden architecture are alive of the convicts. The product catalog of the FSIN convinces that the Russian prison is an alternative reality: it produces everything from school desks to toothpaste.

Buying a garden gnome for a country idyll, you will almost certainly purchase a work of prisoners, Russian teddy toys and wooden cradle also came from behind the grate.

However, the prison products of a large excitement among the townspeople were not called, unlike the next point - an exhibition of automotive equipment. On the eve of the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service announced the exhibits to reporters: in addition to the fire engine and the armored personnel carrier, the "special vehicle for transporting convicts" was promised, that is, simply a car zap.

If an exhibition of some fire equipment on a holiday is a familiar business, then the custodes were still shown to the townspeople. And in vain. Prison in the Murmansk region - to a certain extent, a city -forming element. The Kola Peninsula was an important point on the map of the Gulag: 27 camps. Almost all deposits of minerals in the region began to develop convicts, as well as to build cities near these deposits.

At 60 sentenced in 1936-1938 in the Murmansk region there were 140 shot sentences. But unlike, say, the topic of repression is taboo on Norilsk on the Kola Peninsula. A few years ago, in response to Khodorkovsky’s replica that the “descendants of the convicts and Vertukhaev” live in the north, the then governor Kovtun burst out to the Philippic.

This year, the FSB seized a book about repressions from the printing house and has been checking it for extremism for six months. The burial places of the executed are still unknown.

In Murmansk there is a modest monument to the victims of the Gulag. Exactly a hundred meters from him and was put up for public display of the car carrier. It was festively decorated: behind the driver's seat in the cab hung a cloth of the colors of the Russian flag - obviously, in honor of Russia's Day. True, they did not let it go inside, so that there was no complete immersion in the atmosphere. In the armored personnel carrier, the kids were allowed to climb, but not yet in the car carrier. “And you shout a couple of times“ Freedom to Navalny! ”, They will open the doors at once,” a colleague joked in response to my question whether it is possible to visit this good car.

However, with closed doors, the symbol was easily read. Autosak stood opposite the square, previously considered a Hyde Park, then the opposition was forbidden to gather both there and the protesters recently go to five corners, where they are packing.

The prison department that has not previously been prone to self -promotion has been walking into the masses more quickly. Literally the day before, they announced the opening of the UFSIN class in one of the Murmansk schools. Children are promised to prepare and guarantee employment in a future specialty. Career guidance can be started directly in the autosak.