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"Grandfather Dissant The main threat to the state. Circus." About the arrest of Alexander Skobov
In St. Petersburg on Wednesday night, 66-year-old publicist Alexander Skobov was detained on charges of promoting terrorist activities. The reason for the initiation of the case was Skobov’s posts about the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. According to Fontanka, Skobov reasoned in them, to whom the attack was beneficial, and "even pointed to specific people."
In March, Skobov was included in the Ministry of Justice in the register of the so -called foreign agents.
On March 31, in an interview with North. Realiy, Skobov stated that he was calling for helping Russian volunteer battalions fighting on the side of Ukraine. The Russian authorities declared the Legion "Freedom of Russia" and "Russian Volunteer Corps" with terrorist organizations.
According to Skobov, he opens against freezing the conflict in Ukraine. "Only the victory of Ukraine, only the liberation of all the territories captured by Russia, the restoration of the borders of 1991, the reparations for aggression and the trial of those members of the military-political leadership of Russia who unleashed the war," he said.
Commentators see the gloomy symbolism in the fact that the Putin regime fights with the dissidents of the Brezhnev times.
On the night of April 2 to April 3, Alexander Skobov*, the left-wing dissident of the Soviet era was detained in St. Petersburg, the justification of terrorism was exchanged-an absurd article, which, in my opinion, should be canceled.*A few days before the arrest of the brackets was recognized as a pic.twitter.com/rzrksxps3t foreigner.
- Nikolai Caucasian (@othertribunus) April 2, 2024
In St. Petersburg, a 66-year-old publicist and Soviet dissident Alexander Skobov were detained. He is charged with an article on the justification of terrorism. The publicist seized the phone and computer. He could not take medicines for diabetes. Well, yes, Dedical discident, the main threat to the state. Circus pic.twitter.com/ofqvkiivjv
- Wild Petersburg (@wild_SPB) April 2, 2024
The 66-year-old old dissident Skobov, who was still sitting, was arrested, the USSR, the same people in those days and planted him.
- Efremov Alexey 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@Efremovrf) April 2, 2024
Alexander Skobov was arrested, under the article "Justification of terrorism." The poor man sees so poorly that I don’t know if he can read and answer letters. He refused the lawyer. And I just wanted to call him, read my answer to his last posts about the totalitarian essence of the regime.
- threat of national security (@volokhonsky) April 2, 2024
Skobov was the last person involved in the article "Anti -Soviet agitation". I remember stood with him in a regular anti -war picket in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the zero. I thought he left Russia.
They took Alexander Skobov. He always and for all reasons says he wants. And at the same time completely harmless.
In 1976, a group, known as the “Left Opposition”, was then created in Leningrad for two years. Her magazine "Perspective" called for the elimination of the repressive machine of the state, immediately voluntary bilateral disarmament and the conclusion of a strong Soviet-Chinese peace treaty.
The program article of the “Abstract of the current moment” stated that the Soviet “state, which during the years of the revolution was only a means, became ... an end in itself”, “Soviet ideology has come to a dead end, it has nothing to do with Marxism, but is its gross falsification.”
Also in the journal "Prospects", excerpts from the texts of Bakunin, Kropotkin, Trotsky, Marcuse and Kon-Bendy were printed. In total, in 1978, 3 issues of the magazine were published. The group leaders, Arkady Tsurkov and Alexander Skobov planned to create an all -Union organization under the conditional name "Revolutionary Communist Union of Youth" on the basis of the contacts of the Left Opposition. On the eve of the conference, its participants, including delegates from Moscow and Gorky, were arrested. More than 200 schoolchildren and students were published in defense of the arrested near the Kazan Cathedral. Skobov was sent to a psychiatric hospital. In 1985, he was again forced to treat, and in 1988 they almost imprisoned for "anti-Soviet agitation."
Yesterday, Alexander Skobov - an elderly, almost blinded man - was detained under the article "Execution of terrorism."
In 1976, while still a first -year student, he was first detained for participating in a student informal movement.
In 1978, according to the court sentence, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital.
In the 80s, he was forcibly hospitalized several times.
He refused the proposed emigration.
In 1988, he became a defendant in the last case under the article "Anti -Soviet Propaganda". In 1989, the case was dismissed due to a change in the wording of the article.
He condemned the wars in Chechnya.
He was engaged in political activities.
He wrote books.
Taught.
Condemned the occupation of Crimea.
In 2016, he was attacked. It was beaten, stabs were inflicted.
Survived.
He condemned the unleashing of a full -scale war.
He entered the Council of the "Forum of Free Russia".
Supported all forms of resistance to the regime.
The proposed emigration (evacuation from the Russian Federation) again refused.
He knew that he was being prepared.
I went to Turkey. He said goodbye to the children. He returned.
March 22 of this year was declared a "foreign agent"
Detained in St. Petersburg in the late evening of April 02.
Accused of "justification of terrorism."
This is shortly.
Bright person.
Martyr…
Alexander Skobov is an old, tested fighter. In his youth, he was an anti -Soviet dissident, was in prison, and was subjected to punitive medicine.
After the collapse of the USSR, he worked as a school teacher of history. He was the author of his own history textbook - an interesting study written from the perspective of not white and not red, but some left opposition to communism. Skobov were close to the Moloshevist left -wing revolutionary movements, especially the Socialist -Revolutionaries and anarchists.
Skobov was a member of the apple (until he left there) and an active participant in the anti -war movement during the Chechen wars. Later it was published on the faces, and in recent years he was an active participant in the Free Russia forum. He is a member of the forum council now.
Alexander Skobov is an irreconcilable fighter with the Putin regime, who consciously abandoned emigration and decided to land. It will be very difficult for him now, but I know that he will go his way with dignity. No matter what this path ends.
Alas, today the path of an honest and courageous person in the Russian Federation looks that way. Skobov was sitting under communism, and now he sat down with non -Sovietism.
The circle closed - once again.
Recently, I followed Skobov with a gloomy feeling. Gifted diverse and close to me with his left beliefs, he demonstrated a choice in which fearlessness suppresses everything else. I know what it is: this is an unbearable fear of fear. Therefore, he chose the most painful expressions in criticism of the authorities, which has not been needed for a long time. He shouted, although the authorities destroyed for a whisper and just an open mouth.
It seemed that Skobova was no longer so much interested in the awareness of what is happening as the opportunity to cause power to be maximum or at least some pain, but her merciless and indifference is a kind of anesthesia.
It is clear that people with such a degree of courage, suicidal and in vegetarian times are always negligible, but now there is almost no. A sense of self-preservation works on distant borders, and it is difficult to blame someone in this.
It seems that Skobov decided to sacrifice his life in order to somehow weaken the power, confident in indifference to these victims. Or believes that it is also protected from them too.
Whether Skobov will have the effect that he thought about and which he hopes, I do not know. But the fact that he entered himself into Russian history with his unique courage and unwillingness to curb it, that's for sure. And this is even more bitter.
He remained in Russia, he knew that the case was already preparing against him, we convinced him to leave, but he decided to live his life to the end, since he considered it possible for himself, he went to Turkey to see his children, returned - and now they took him. He was closed twice at the Communists, in relation to Putinism, he is one of those who at the very early stage understood what it was and how it would end, this is a great contemporary, he is two years older than me. Mentally, he inherits the traditions of the Socialist -Revolutionaries, those for whom "prison and will" is one and the same, there is no wall, life without a seam, everywhere "folk life". In 2014, he survived a street attack, a wound, in addition, he is almost blind. They plant it exclusively for participating in the activities of the Free Russia forum. I don’t know if he will see the day when Putin hangs upside down, like Mussolini, but if - yes, then it will be true.
It's a pity.
I understand that everyone is in his own right, but such a turn of events could not be allowed. It was necessary to stop the person and convince himself to limit himself to the administrative. No need to saturate the system with victims. She likes it.
It is clear that in the head of Putin and his servants something is not at all right. But let's say that they were covered with xenophobia, imperial fantasies, some nationalist psychoses, inferiority complexes, etc. But how is it not ashamed to fight with older people? Why send Oleg Orlov or Alexander Skobov to prison? These are all questions that can now hardly be answered. But I really hope that we will remember and find everyone who did it. There are much more of us than these evil idiots think.