Russia and its new "heroes"

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“Who do we need? The ideal candidate is Ilya Muromets from a strict regime, not the first time convicted, 30–45 years old, strong, confident, hardy, preferably spent the backup and more, preferably with a back and more, preferably more than once for murder, heavy bodily, robbery, robbery. If the administration has somewhat or cops, this is even better. We need your criminal talents, ”so in February this year, Evgeny Prigozhin described the ideal candidate in Wagner's PMC of the PMC of the PMC.

According to human rights activists, Prigozhin recruited more than 50 thousand prisoners in his militarized criminal group. Most of them died as a result of the frontal assault on the fortified positions of Ukrainians near Bakhmut and other cities of Donbass.

Despite the fact that mercenaries in Russia are still out of the law, the state makes heroes from the Wagnerians. They are posthumously awarded medals and orders, propaganda programs are removed about them, they are buried with military honors.

“Important stories” studied the biographies of several victims of the Wagnerians who died in Ukraine, talked with the victims of their crimes, relatives and friends to find out how they relate to the new “heroes” of Russia.

"Pravdaister"

"We went as Nazis, and shot those who bearded"

Alexander Sitavichus is from the village of Ladoga Krasnodar Territory. Cossack chieftain, father of four children, entrepreneur. “Sasha is such a guy with an aggravated sense of justice. “The Russian World” immediately went to the Donbass to save in 2014. As you know, all classic Russian people, they are always led by feelings, they never think of facts, ”says Alexey Gayvoronsky, an activist from Ladoga, familiar with Sitavichus.

After Donbass, Sitavichus returned to live in his native village. On the eve of the new, 2018, he drank in the cafe “Spark” with his friend Alexei Mironov - they fought together near Lugansk. This booze ended with a triple murder.

“What was the situation? Sitavichus and his friend come to the Cafe "Sprink". They rest, they drink, they swear with gypsies. Sitavichus with a friend leave and say: “We will return now.” After they left, his friend told Sitavichu that “we are there in Ukraine, damn it, heroes, and here we are some gypsies, youngsters beat.” And then we went home for the trunks, ”recalls the relative of Artem Mirzoyan, who was killed that night.

Sitavichus was buried at the house of Kalashnikov’s machine, which he apparently brought with him from Ukraine. His friend Mironov armed himself with a knife.

When Sitavichus and Mironov returned to the cafe, their offenders have already left. “They came in. At the bar, the DJ also shot at my brother, who was not at all in business. We went as Nazis, and shot those who bearded. My brother’s friend - a Russian guy - pulled a glass in them, but they did not even react to this. They were simply interested in shooting black, non -Russian, ”says Artem’s brother, Arnold Mirzoyan.

“It turns out that Artem Armenian, [DJ] Roma is also an Armenian who has never conflicts with anyone: a cheerful guy, his son is growing. He [Sitavichus] shot precisely in non -Russian ones. Those people with whom he had a conflict were no longer. They left ... ” - continues the relative of Artem.

Going out into the street, Sitavichus killed another man-18-year-old gypsy Nikolai Kuzmenko, who was sitting in a car at the cafe and listening with a friend of music.

"They are all the Auro-patsans, fuck their mother"

Despite the cruelty and meaninglessness of the crime, many residents of Ladoga supported Alexander Sitavichus.

“And in our small village, where everyone knows each other, hell began,” recalls the relative of Artem, events that followed the triple murder in the “light” cafe. - It was just scary to even go outside, because everyone conflicts with each other. They began to create in the social networks of the group [with a message] “Let the Russians will survive from the village of non -Russian.” I removed my photo from social networks and climbed into all these chats and groups. It was very scary to read everything ... They wrote: “Let's stop buying something from them [non-Russian].” That is, there was such a clear separating line: Russian and non -Russian. Such an atmosphere of hostility ... Personally, I did not leave the house anywhere. It seems to me that because of fear, no one went anywhere. ”

Activist from Ladoga Alexei Gayvoronsky is so trying to justify the actions of the killers:

“There [in the village] this Armenian-Sysygan organized crime group, she just nightmarked this whole village. Both the Cossack, or a candidate for the Cossacks, told how his girlfriend raped his girlfriend in this cafe ( this information was not confirmed by the investigation. - Approx. Ed. ). In general, the menagerie was still there. That is, a boiling point, you see. We have Russian, when he drinks vodka, he begins to lead a fuss for the truth-mother. This is what happened. Not out of the blue. He [Sitavichus] Buhoy came to the cafe. Under a hot hand, who caught, and that was shot. They are all the auto-patsans, fucking their mother, I apologize for the swearing. ”

In the local House of Culture, residents arranged a gathering where everyone could speak out about what happened, the head of the police of the Ust-Labinsky district Vyacheslav Artyukov also performed:

“I was talking to him [with Sitavich], I asked him the question:“ Why? ”. He says: “I understand what I did. But I was in this state, it was a shame that someone hit me and I was the same at that moment what to do. That is, I had to let off steam.” You see that a person with a contusion, when he drinks, loses a little control of himself. ”

Alexander Sitavichus was sentenced to 21 years of maximum security colony. His friend Alexei Mironov received 15 years in colony.

Four years later, in 2022, Sitavichus recruited the Wagner PMC, and two months later it became known that he died in Ukraine.

"I would not let him live ... no matter what threatens me"

Sitavichus’s wife Oksana was not at all surprised when she found out that her husband and father of four children decided to join the Wagner PMC: “He went, killed, died. All. Well, I'm already used to in principle. He was, as it were, not only there. I discouraged, naturally, but there is as it is. He was in 2014 in Lugansk, in Crimea. The fact that he went is his choice. Even if he was at home, he would have gone anyway. This is natural. Because when the Crimea was returned, he was there, our Crimesk flooded-he was there, from under the rubble of people he took out. Well, he has such a warehouse. He needs to be everywhere where ... ideological, so to speak. He is forever for a just cause. "

The former chieftain was buried in a closed coffin in his native village as a hero - with military honors. In the same cemetery where the victims killed by him are.

“When I saw this news [about the funeral of Sitavichus], and when everyone began to write:“ Here is a hero, well done! ” I wrote: “Well, what can he be a hero after the fact that he killed three people who did nothing at all?” They were just starting to live! How can you call a person a hero after that? .. Just because he went to fight, from this he became a hero? No. The hero is completely different, ”believes a relative of the murdered Artem. - For me, this is very strange: how the killer can go to war, return and: “I corrected”. So are not corrected. He just went to kill. This is a war.

If a person took it and simply killed one, two, three and is sent again to the war, where he again sees the murders, that's all this. It seems to me that in it this is true ... He will return, and he will be raped and later, and he will kill, and he will do anything. ”

Alexei Gayvoronsky does not agree with Artem’s relative: “You cannot look from one plane here. The fact that he went, on the one hand, is a hero. No one heroizes his act that he shot people in a cafe. But all these criminals are now the most effective. They are heroes with us! This is so. But no one says that after that they stopped being criminals. In fact, they die there instead, while we are sitting here and have not yet called us ... and show good efficiency, better than the Ministry of Defense. ”

When asked whether he himself is ready to go to Ukraine, Gayvoronsky replies: “When suicidal thoughts arise, I will solve this question differently. In the world, I will give the soul to God, and not in the trench there, so that I would piss me off the crest ... somewhere to be cut into the organs. I am not an imperialist already. Because our empire is aimed at destroying our own people. To me, when it will be more on a piece of land there in Ukraine, it is absolutely neither hot for me from this at all. So, of course, this madness must be stopped. And resolve issues in our country. We have more problems than Bandera. Worse Bandera are sitting there in the administration, stealing money, drains budgets. This bitch, the worst of any Bandera, brings harm in Russia. ”

“Every week I go to the village and call in the cemetery. I also saw where Sitavichus was buried. This is how it is exalted, how it all happens ... Yes, it is unpleasant, of course. Like a hero! - says Arnold Mirzoyan. - [If he had not been killed in the war and he would have returned to the village alive], I would not let him live ... No matter what threatens me. I also have my own nerves, my limits. I would not be able to see him in the village walking. The person who killed my brother. "

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In the cafe "Light" they still recall a triple murder that occurred four years ago.

“We recently had a gypsy wedding. And then the parents of the boy came to whom he [Sitavichus] shot himself, saw a broken glass and it was again ... remembered. - says the owner of the cafe Oksana. - Well, of course, it is dangerous, of course, scary [to know that the former prisoners are now returning from the war without serving their punishment]. Who knows who was sitting for what crimes. It’s scary that then it will be after this war. How they will show themselves later. Scary. But little depends on us. ”

"Wolf"

"Well, at least not born cripple"

Yuri Gavrishov met Ksyusha Podkoryatova in a special correctional boarding school in the village of Konstantinovskoye, Stavropol Territory. Both were orphans: Yura's parents drank, the mother of Ksenia deprived of parental rights. In 2015, Gavrishov gave a private house in Konstantinovsky, he had a relationship with Ksyusha. A few years later he killed her.

Yura was the youngest of ten children in the Gavrishov family. “We are like a lupus, it turns out,” the older brother of Yura, Nikolai recalls ourselves. -Honestly, he had something with his head a little ... some deviations. He slightly braked, did not catch up. Still, he is the last. Parents, when they already drank strongly, imagine how it turned out, he was born ... It is good that he was not born a cripple. ”

Parents drank, they took the children to the orphanage, then they returned home for a while. When Yura was taken to the orphanage for the second time, there was nowhere to return it - mom and dad died. Nikolai transfers how the fate of the rest of his brothers developed: “One brother died in Essentuki, the second in the Krasnogvardeisky, the third came from the boarding school, also hanged around here ...”

After the boarding school, Yura did not look for work, began to steal (for the theft of propane cylinders in 2016 he was convicted of correctional work).

About the girl with whom Gavrishov met, his brother knows little: “So it seems pleasant on the face, nothing. A normal girl ... They had a relationship: either put up, then cursed. ”

On the page of Ksyusha Podkoryatova is the status of “Yura, I love you very much. My favorite husband! ”, Although officially they were not painted. According to the brother, the couple often quarreled. On the night of November 21, 2017, “a quarrel occurred between them due to the fact that he was jealous of her friend,” as he later wrote in the news. “It seems like a quiet kid was normal,” Vlad Ivanov recalls Gavrishov. “He got drunk, the girl changed or something like that, he freaked out and killed her.”

The police described what happened: “After an intimate relationship by mutual agreement, being in a state of strong intoxication, in the course of a sudden a quarrel on the basis of jealousy, about ten strokes strokes in the body and head, and then three brick blows into the occipital area of ​​the head of her friend Nocryotova Ksenia Sergeyevna, the former pupil of the boarding school for children No. 14, which from The injuries died on the spot. "

After the murder of Yur surrendered to the police.

"I was assured that he was supposedly alive"

Gavrishov was convicted of eight years. Behind bars, Yura created a page in VKontakte with the following status: "If you fuck, then only princesses." Last fall, recruiters from the Wagner PMC arrived in his colony. “Everything, brother, we are now on an airplane, and we are all taken away,” Yura wrote to his brother at night. “I never talked with him again,” says Nikolai.

Yura did not get in touch, but Nikolai turned to the hotline of PMCs, they reassured: “They answered me that“ do not worry, everything is normal yet, we will not say where he is and what. But we assure you that if something happened, you would already know about it ”.”

In January of this year, the blogger Vitaly Votanovsky, who was the first to discover the mass burial of prisoners in the village of Baku, published a video on which the grave of Yuri Gavrishova fell.

“Important stories” called the brother of Yuri, Nikolai Gavrishov, in early April. He learned about the death of a relative from us.

“Two weeks ago I was assured that he was supposedly alive. And then it turns out that you show me that he is already there. Maybe I still do not understand to the end, I do not turn out simply. Each person still has his own fate. Probably, he was written like that. Why dissuade if I myself would go there a little and went there?

I’ll tell you so that he rose in my eyes only after he still made a decision and went there. Such solutions are made in two cases: either by stupidity, or still consciously. What was his head? "

"Restless"

"Thief - and only"

In the same cemetery in the village of Bakinskaya, a fellow villager Yuri Gavrishova, Dmitry Vashchenko was buried. Their fates are largely similar.

“He will come out, he moves around the village for a month - he will steal again,” says Tatyana Orekhova, a resident of Konstantinovsky, from whom Vashchenko once stole a cow. - Thief - and that's it. Nobody said anything good about him. He was practically not here in the village. Constantly sat, constantly! "

According to police reports, Vashchenko stole everything that fell under his arm: chairs, foods and even a cow. In this, sometimes his brother Zhenya helped him. But in the village they were condescending to them: “They are not evil ... They, I think, would not have gone to the murder,” said Orekhova. - That's purely theft with them. Nobody brought them up. Mom drank all her life, and dad there. Parents have not raised. They are restless, no one needed in life. Therefore, they lived: stolen, sat - on state grunts. "

In 2020, Vashchenko was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony for the fact that he tried to throw bags with hashish and other drugs into the colony with the help of a slingshot. In court, he explained his act by the fact that "he himself had previously served his sentence more than once and knows how they were looking for drugs there."

Alina Kolomeytseva was the person who replaced Dmitry of his parents while he was free: “The family was normal, but what happened there? Maybe the 90s, lack of money? Mother was sleeping ... When she died, the children went somewhere in the other direction. So at least she somehow restrained them, and then-that's it. One sister died, the other in a booze even hanged herself. ”

“He is a sports, handsome guy, he decorated himself with tatches - all his painted, his whole back, like a walking gallery,” describes Dmitry Alina Kolomeytseva. “But he does not see the meaning in life.” He cannot live normally, he cannot go to work, damn what kind of kid he is. Walks, walks - breaks away. Now, if it weren’t for drugs, maybe he would have had a sense from him, but he stepped to where it was not necessary. If he had come across a normal woman and somehow took him in his hands, if he fell in love. But he had nothing, he did not have time to start a normal relationship. "

Last year, Vashchenko was recruited to the Wagner PMC, and soon he died.

"This is an atonement for him"

Of Vashchenko’s relatives, only the drinking father remained. “They called him, they said that his son died:“ Do what you want with him. ” Either he was drunk, or what. Then, you see, he got old, even went to the grave, ”says Alina Kolomeytseva.

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She believes that the war was the only way out for Dmitry Vashchenko: “It was a kind of atonement for him. True, these are high words, because this war has already become a little meaningless. I have my own views on this. I just think two morons - Putin and Biden - will not be divided in any way. It is a pity, of course, our gene pool is that the best of the best is dying. Is it really impossible to remove this old Biden, to change the policy? I don't like how many children die. And how much money goes there - billions. Here we collect children with SS for treatment, ours, Russians, here they live in poverty. I understand that Ukrainians are our brothers. How can you go and kill your brothers?

Устала уже смотреть, [как хоронят знакомых], потому что я человек впечатлительный: смотрю-смотрю, а потом вышла на улицу, слышу — того привезли, этого привезли. Дети, дети, я их родителей знаю, я нянчила их… Что-нибудь с моим сыном случилось, мне кажется, я бы и дня не жила без него бы. Страшнее ничего нет, чем хоронить родных детей».

При участии Полины Ужвак, Сони Савиной и дата-отдела.

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Редактор : Роман Анин