Crime of the terrorist Skobov

How the Soviet dissident refused to be afraid of Putin and stand in front of his court

To remember the Kata* -

The battle was not won:

I am a stone, I'm a stone

Above their head.

Alexander Gorodnitsky

* Kat (outdated) - the same as the executioner.

In vain you scold the FSB. “Crocus” - yes, they have not been prevented. But, firstly, how can you prevent it? There would be that Islamic terrorists, they would be stopped at a time on distant approaches, as in Syria. But they were not them, ”Putin explained that Russia could not be the object of terrorist attacks of Islamic fundamentalists,“ and someone is much more terrible, and his goal was to undermine the unity of our people. Therefore, they could not. And secondly, the Feesbashniki at the same almost time was busy with business-exposed and neutralized the terrorist no less terrible than the one who organized Crocus, the St. Petersburg historian and publicist Alexander Skobov. He is already in a pre -trial detention center. So do not worry, good people, the FSB protects you, the brackets will not commit new crimes. Now he will be condemned for the justification of terrorism, and he will no longer come out of prison.

No, do not think, they will not give him life, but we have a humane state. They will give "for the justification of terrorism" for only five years to start. True, he is 67, he has diabetes, asthma, hepatitis C-it means that it is still lifelong. In addition, he is almost blind. It can not read in any glasses, the articles that interest him listens using a computer program. Well, in prison with such programs and devices for them is just as good as with medicines.

He is still from Soviet dissidents. He carried out the first protest in the age of 19, was arrested for the first time at 21. In addition to arrests and searches, in the biography there is also a diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia - there is no such illness anywhere in the world, it was invented by Soviet psychiatrists to put the Soviet government in a psychiatric hospital in order to do anything with them there. Many went through the psychiatric hospitals at one time - both the Novodvorskaya and General Grigorenko ( human rights activist, the founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki group. - Approx. Ed. ), And recently, who recently, one of the “seven brave” Viktor Finberg ( dissident, participant in the Red Square against the invasion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia in 1968. - Approx. Ed. ). Skobov is one of this heroic cohort. The useful thing was invented by people in white coats.

He began as a fighter for the right, real socialism. Over the decades of the struggle and persecution of scobes, he did not change his views - as he was left and left. In a normal situation, we would have cursed with him at meetings: I am sure that good socialism is a dead (already collapsed) socialism. But thanks to the policy of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, we not only did not swear, but even made friends with Skobov - ideological differences recede before the main issue: are you for people or for ghouls?

He took a very strict position - both in the war and personally in Putin. Our state did not call fascist otherwise. But for some reason I thought that he would not be arrested-age, illness, biography. Why did he need it? I was mistaken, alas.

He himself was waiting for an arrest. He went to Armenia, saw with the children. That is, he said goodbye. He was persuaded not to return. I returned - I want, I said, to attend the trial above me, I want to spit them in person.

He fulfilled this intention completely. In court, as he was suppressed, he began with the words “Glory to Ukraine!”, Then he said: “Death to the killer to Putin!”, Then he explained what he was thinking about them about all in general and the court in particular, and refused to communicate with the court. To get up when the judge came in, by the way, he also refused. I can not imagine a more integral and consistent position.

But do not think, in no case I do not consider Alexander Skobov a random victim of blind repression. Random victims are those who passed the rally, and thundered like protesters. Random sacrifices are those who are repressed for conversations in their circle or reading something wrong in the subway. But do not insult Alexander Skobov, calling him an innocent victim. He, like Nikolai Gumilyov, in due time, their enemy, consistent and implacable.

In their coordinate system, he, of course, is a criminal. And the point is not the text that he is charged with, where he allegedly justifies the destruction of the Crimean bridge. They just searched for what to cling to. His crime is different.

He does not love them much, he hates them. It would seem, so what? He can say: “Death to the killer to Putin!”, But he cannot organize an attempt on him. He cannot cause them real harm. But after all, these considerations did not interfere with the NKVD at one time to repress everyone who did not attaches anything against the authorities, but simply treated them badly.

The purpose of the organs - both under Stalin and in Orwell - not ensuring security, but the achievement of love for power and its personifiers. Both torture and simply the destruction of those who think about them are not as they would like.

But doubly criminals are those who are not just bad for them, but openly express this attitude. Firstly, thereby they insult them, as they demonstrate that they are not afraid of them-but we must be afraid! Secondly, they show other dissatisfied-and there are a lot of them, and it becomes more and more every day-that you should not keep your feelings with you, which means that they encourage others to say what they think. People with clean hands and a hot heart cannot bear it. They will always forgive the killer and rapist (in extreme cases offering him to go to war), but never - the one who says what they think about them.

That is why among those whom they are prescribed by terrorists, people are peaceful, but fearless and fundamental. There are many of them. Alexander Skobov is just one of the oldest among them. And he is very hard.

They will put many more. Both young and old. Journalists, politicians, teachers, scientists. And we do not know how much it will continue. But so far in Russia there are people who are ready for their views, for the fulfillment of what they consider their professional and human duty, to go to prison, nothing ended. Thanks to Alexander Skobov for courage and hope.