Last word Sasha Skochilenko

The trial of the St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko in the case of “anti -war price tags” ends. The accusation requested her eight years of a general regime.

“Paper” with small changes publishes the last word of Sasha, in which she appeals to the conscience of the state prosecutor and judge and recalls the inherent in every thirst to live in love and the world.

- Your Honor! Dear court!

My criminal case is so strange and funny that it was initiated exactly on April 1. My business is so strange and funny that sometimes it seems to me: here I will go to the hall for a new court session, and confetti will suddenly spy from the sky, and everyone will stand up and shout: “They played it! Played! " My business is so strange and funny that the employees of the SIZO-5 open their eyes wide and exclaim: "Are they really planting for this now?" My business is that even supporters of which I have met do not believe that I deserve a prison term for my act.

My business is that my investigator quit without waiting for his closure. In a personal conversation with my lawyer, he said: "I did not come to the Investigative Committee in order to do things like Sasha Skochilenko."

And he threw my business, which promised him a brilliant career growth and had already brought an asterisk to shoulder straps. He threw the Investigative Committee and went to work in the Voentorg store. I immensely respect his act and think that we are similar to him - we both acted according to conscience.

Article 207.3 itself is fundamentally discriminated, because it punishes only a certain circle of people - those who do not serve in state bodies. Just think about it: the information that I distributed was obviously for my investigators, unlike me, obviously false-nevertheless they distributed it among their investigative department, as well as among the prosecutor's office and judicial authorities, insulted this information of witnesses and created a reason for huge public resonance.

Thanks to my investigators and prosecutors, the information that I widespread recognized thousands of people in Russia and around the world. If I had not been arrested, one grandmother, cashier and security guard of the Perekrestok store would have recognized this information.

And on two of these three persons, as follows from the materials of my criminal case, the so -called “price tags” did not make any impression at all. Tell me, do investigators distribute drugs among employees of state bodies when they want to prove the guilt of a person under article 228? Such employees themselves would be judged under the same article. So why, by 207.3, neither my investigators nor my state prosecutor judge, but are they judged only by me?

If these five pieces of paper are so terrible, then why was this court started at all? In order for us to pronounce these theses dozens of times, which, according to the public prosecutor, are so threatened with public security? But now, we pronounced texts from the “price tags” throughout the entire process. And what? Has the earth opened because of this? The revolution in the country has begun? The soldiers began to fraternize on the fronts? Nothing of the kind happened. So what's the problem?

The state prosecutor has repeatedly mentioned that my act is extremely dangerous for society and the state. How weak faith in our state and society does our prosecutor possess, if he believes that our statehood and public security can destroy from five small pieces of paper?

When a person lifts a military rebellion, which has inflicted huge damage to our country, a criminal case is initiated on him and closed every other day. Nobody was injured from my act, and I have been detained for more than a year and a half - along with killers, thieves, minors and organizers of prostitution classes. Is the so -called damage allegedly caused by me compare with these crimes?

Each judicial sentence is a message for society. Regardless of how you evaluate my act, you probably agree that I showed courage and unbending character, I was not hypocritical, I was honest in front of myself and before the trial, I acted in accordance with my moral landmarks. And you will agree that I have them, even if you are personally close to you. In the jargon of investigators, to plant a person in a pre -trial detention center is called "take prisoner." So, I did not give up and did not bent in the conditions of captivity, under the threat of bullying, illness and hunger.

And if the sentence is a message for the people, then think about what you inform people, our citizens, condemning me? What do you need to give up? What do you need to be hypocrite? What needs to be recognized what you are innocent in? What can not be sorry for our soldiers? That you can’t wish a peaceful sky above your head? That our society and the state can collapse from five small pieces of paper? Is it really what you want to tell people during the crisis, instability, depression and stress?

My process is widely covered in Russia and in the world, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people are watching it, books are written about my process and documentaries are shot. So regardless of what sentence you will pass, you will go down in history. Perhaps you will go down in history as a person who planted me, perhaps as a person who justified me, perhaps as a person who made a neutral decision and gave me a fine, a conditional term or term “for the severity”. Everyone sees and knows that you are not judging the terrorist. You judge not an extremist. You judge not even a political activist. You judge the pacifist.

I am a pacifist. Pacifists have always existed. This is a special kind of people who consider the life of the highest value of all possible. We believe that any conflict can be resolved peacefully. I can’t even kill a spider, it’s scary to imagine that you can take someone’s life. The fighting is on the initiative of warriors, but the world occurs thanks to the pacifists. And when you plant the pacifists, you move the long -awaited day of the world.

Yes, I believe that life is sacred. Oh yes, life! If you discard the entire tinsel of this world like money, power, glory, position in society, only it is in the dry remnant. Oh yes, life! She is stubborn, she is stupid, she is incredible, touching, amazing, strong. She originated on the ground, and until we found analogues even in distant space. It can break through the asphalt, destroy the stones, it can turn from a small sprout into a gigantic baobab, from a microscopic cell - into a giant whale. She inhabit the peaks, hides in the Mariana cavity, exists in Arctic ice and in a hot desert. Its most perfect form is a person.

Man is a very reasonable form of life. This is a life that can realize itself. To realize your own mortality. True, most often we do not remember this and live as if we will live forever. But in fact, a person’s life is fleeting. She is negligible. All we can do is to extend the brief moment of bliss. All living want to live. Even on the necks of the gallows, traces of scratches are found from nails. This means that at the very last moment they really want to survive.

Ask a person who has just removed a cancer tumor, what life is and how valuable it is. Today, scientists and doctors around the world are fighting to increase the life expectancy of a person and find medicines for deadly diseases. Therefore, I do not understand: why fighting? After all, fighting shorten life. Fighting is death. It was the 21st year, an epidemic of coronavirus, we lost our elderly loved ones-grandparents, mentors, teachers. We experienced so much pain, anxiety and mourning, and only we began to get to our feet, began to live ... fighting. Now we are losing young people. Again death, again grief, again pain. And I can’t understand at all: why fighting?

Call this as you want - I was mistaken, or I was mistaken, or my brains were powdered ... I will remain with my opinion and with my truth. And I do not think that one or another truth must be forced to legislatively force.

The state prosecutor believes in a completely different truth than me. He is confident in the existence of the so-called “NATO signs” or that all independent media are financed from abroad. But the difference between our prosecutor and I is that I would never put him in jail-because of this.

I'm sorry if I offended someone with my act. My conclusion in a pre -trial detention center, where I talked with very different people, unlike me, allowed me to understand that everyone believes in his truth. The same applies to the attitude to his. And this is a great tragedy that not all of us share one truth and do not accept the truth of each other - this gives rise to a split in society, destroys families and disconnects people close to each other, increases the level of aggression, multiplies enmity on Earth and more and more distant us from the long -awaited world. I will not sin against the truth if I say that every person in this hall wishes the same thing - the world.

Why fight? If we are all that each other in this world, complete troubles, disasters and difficulties. Can all the wealth and all the power of the universe redeem your loved one from a captivity of death? No, no money, no power, no career, no apartment, no car.

We are all that each other has. And I have loved ones who are dear to me more than anything. They come to this hall, and they are not indifferent to my life, health and freedom. They do not want to be imprisoned. An elderly mother, sister, beloved girl who made a terrible diagnosis - cancer are waiting for me at home. And I still do not know a person, except for the public prosecutor who wants to be imprisoned.

True, I think that the state prosecutor at heart does not want this. It seems to me that he came to the prosecutor’s office to plant real criminals and villains - killers, rapists, minors. And everything turned out to be completely different: it is necessary to plant those who need to be planted - and this is the key to advancement along the career ladder. This is the current system. Let’s even now not pretend that this is not so.

I don't blame you. You care about your career, about the stable position in the future, to provide your family, give it bread and a roof over her head, put your future or already born children on the feet. But what will you tell them about? About how you put in prison a seriously ill woman for five small pieces of paper? No, undoubtedly, you will talk about other matters. You probably console yourself with the fact that you just do your job. But what will you do when the pendulum sways in the other direction?

This is a historical law: liberals are replaced by conservatives, conservatives - liberals. After the natural death of one political leader comes another, with the opposite course, and the former become the last, and the latter - the first. It will seem strange to you, but I sympathize with you.

Despite the fact that I am behind bars, I am freer than you. I can make my own decisions, I can say everything I think, I can quit my job if I am forced to do something that I do not want. I have no enemies, I am not afraid to be left without money or even without a roof over my head.

I am not afraid not to make a brilliant career, to seem funny, vulnerable or strange. I am not afraid to be different from others. Perhaps that is why my state is so afraid of me and like me and holds me in a cage as a dangerous beast.

But man is not a wolf to a person. It’s easy to get angry with each other because of different positions, and to love each other, trying to understand and find compromises is very difficult. It is so unbearably difficult that sometimes it seems simply impossible - at such moments violence or coercion seem the only way out. But this is not so! It is necessary to learn to love and solve conflicts with the help of a word - this is the only way to get out of the crisis of the moral in which we found ourselves.

Your Honor! You can give everyone an example with your sentence - an example of how a conflict can be resolved by a word, love, mercy, compassion, and not with the help of coercion to the so -called truth through a criminal term. This will be a big step towards a decrease in anger, to the healing and reconciliation of society.

Your Honor! I understand that for you this is just work, ordinary business, labor hours and a large amount of paperwork. Probably, among this routine, as with any work, the true one is blurred and forgotten. But the truth is that you have great power: to perform human destinies. In this case, in your power, my fate, my health, my life and the happiness of my loved ones. I believe that you will dispose of this power wisely.

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