"I bargated there, I drew for Davankov"

The story of a rural official who participated in the falsification of the elections

In 2020, a taxi driver from the suburbs left for Siberia to his relatives and stayed, getting to work in the administration of a city settlement, which includes several villages. Sergei (the name changed at the request of the hero) told the “cold” about the everyday life of a small municipal employee: he responds to complaints of citizens, scolds the illiterate people and “draws” votes in the elections.

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At the disposal of the editorial office there are documents, photos from work and other certificates confirming that the hero really works in the local administration.

" Potemkin village"

It was not very much to work in Moscow in a taxi at all, and I decided to go to my relatives for a month - to the village with a population of 14 thousand people. And there was an ass with footage, and I stayed. First, he worked in DOSAAF, then the teacher in the social service, where difficult teenagers are sent before the orphanage. And a few months later he got a job in the administration.

I am a municipal employee. My position is “a specialist in the administration of the settlement”, the salary is 30 thousand rubles. We remove the snow, repair the roads, take out the garbage, we need to oversee the canvas of the dogs, now the floods are.

I come to work in the morning-already a bunch of complaints, calls: either the snow is not cleaned, then it flooded someone, then the open hatch was left in the middle of the street. There is such a “incident management” system ( a monitoring system that automatically collects citizens' complaints on social networks. - Approx. “Cold” ) - it would be better not to. People complain to the governor or Putin: "There are no roads, the administration does not help, on the street shit, dirt, slush."

The “incident” finds this, reports to the district administration, and they send us. Reply is a whole art: the administration’s face must be shown, sympathetically showing, but nothing to promise at the same time. And people in their letters, of course, are insulting and rude. So you sit, write: "We understand your concern, we will not be able to do anything." You have to go to the area urgently, and you are engaged in this garbage.

In the case of an emergency, they can call: for example, the pipes have froze - you have to walk with a shovel, hammer, help. Then still take pictures of these ditches - right now, photo reports are everywhere. I rarely work with my hands, but sometimes I have to.

When the governor arrived in winter, we bought new shovels for the window dressing and the administration ourselves went snow from the memorial to the victorious soldiers to clean. "Potemkin village."

There are no workers - they give for the development of fines: those who flew by administrative punishment and received “compulsory work”. Any alcoholics, alimony. The snow is cleaned, the bushes are sawn, remove the garbage. You need to follow them. One to one film "Operation Y and the other adventures of Shurik." They go out to do something, since they dumped in half an hour. You call: "Bitch, where are you?" More than four hours a day cannot be worked out for them. You have to cunning, I say: "Work today all day, do not come tomorrow."

It happens, someone manages to help. Once a grandmother came - she has no water at home, frost, the column is frozen - she says: "I drown the snow to drink." I feel so sorry for her humanly. You think: "Fuck, the 21st century is in the yard, and our grandmothers are drowned, as in the besieged Leningrad."

I bent the water supply: I called the boss so that all the way was warmed up for an hour. I went checked - it works. But such situations are single. Basically, you spend your nerves. Every day calls, threats, "we will complain."

For example, someone calls, screams that the house has flooded. I usually come as a representative from the administration, I look at how critical. Sometimes you swear with people - you explain that this is their property, we do not have to pump out water, we have not been introduced in the emergency regime. Or you explain: “You do not have a ditch, no pipe, there is nowhere to go water. How will we help you? We’ll pump out water, she will come again tomorrow. ” But we did not have serious floods. Over a month, he just came to a pensioner once, and she walks around the house in the boots of rubber. But she has a dugout.

Evil and illiterate

The people are simply wild - evil, illiterate. They know nothing, they sit and wait for a miracle from above. Moreover, my observation is that people with money, who are fine, never complain. And this needs everything - especially the wives of the military. Of the villages, there are many who go on “Svo” voluntarily. Their wives, when they write complaints, are asked to help, there this phrase is always: "I am the wife of the participant of her." If she prescribed this way, then she cannot be refused - I need to help with what we can. And they chips sometimes, it’s easy to absurd. "Help the snow take away from home, I am the wife of the participant of his own."

Everyone loves our head of the municipal district, everyone loves the heads of settlements, walk smiles, asses lick. Although many may not suit many, but they are afraid to say. People understand that they live here, nowhere to go and somehow you need to find a common language. When in Moscow adequate youth for Navalny drowned, they did not even know who it was.

There are many youth, but there are no normal salaries. There is work, but they pay 20 thousand, no one wants to go. But they are agitated to fight - the program is put on stream. No, well, the amounts are really tempting. This is all with a mask of patriotism. And what is patriotism? When there is a choice and you choose a Russian product, for example. And when people do not have a choice and they are imposed on them, is that right?

A good phrase from the film “Crew”: “Patriotism is not when it is blah blah blah and not when you are drunk in the fountain of the flag, and when the old people do not get in the country.” Well, this is real. In Moscow, maybe they live even more or less, the grandmother receives a pension at 40 ( with the data of Rosstat, as of July 1, 2023, the average pension in Moscow is 20,787 rubles.-approx. “Cold” ), but how much? The ass is simple, although they also worked. And the prices are the same. "Magnets", "Pyaterochka", chain stores.

But in Moscow they work more, of course. I tried to explain to people here, they were offended that Muscovites were burning. I say: “If you worked as Muscovites - from eight in the morning to eight in the evening without lunch, with one weekend - you, too, would have money.” And here they go for lunch with me stably and work from eight to five.

"Damnov for Davankov"

When the head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova said that in the elections in March 2024 there was a record turnout, she did not see how they passed.

The state employees are obliged to come and vote. This is not said anywhere, but everyone understands what kind of Putin is, and make it clear that if for the president, then everything will be fine. And we in the administration must slow for people so that they go to the polls.

I was a member of the exit commission, with a suitcase ( urn for ballots. - Approx. "Cold" ) just like that. Yes [I painted], they will put me the first.

They give one and a half thousand ballots, no more than 200 should remain unused. If a thousand people have voted, 300 must be completed. If a person does not vote, you write a statement on his behalf, they say, I want to vote outside the room. There are already passport data in the book of voters, and the signature - you put stupidly squiggle and that's it. After that, you go into the car and there you put the checkmarks there. Therefore, exit voting at home is really Naebalovo.

For example, we come, the young guy kicked us out: "Go out of here so that I do not see you." They left, and then his voice was still “recorded”. Well done the guy, of course, but in the end in vain - the voice disappeared. If you want, you don’t want to, but you have to vote.

The commission is twitched, the head of the district or his deputy comes to the site and asks: “How are your situation?”

But I bargated there, for Davankov I drew balls at 50 pieces. The guy is young, promising, you need to give young people a little. He graduated from the History Faculty of Moscow State University, not quite a moron-I think something is worthy of something. It was clear that he would not pass, but would gain a certain number of votes-and he would have a motivation that people still voted. In addition to me and my 50 ballots, someone still voted for him, almost 80 was for Davankov.

"I still have to live here"

I think even if there was a real turnout, we would still have chosen Putin in the village. We come to an old grandmother: the house is falling, a halup, she receives 12 thousand, a minimum pension, barely walks. He takes the ballot and simply does not know anyone - he puts it for Putin. We hung campaign posters in the area, but only Putin.

People do not know anyone and vote on the principle: “Let him better than no one. We will fight, we will die, we will live in poverty, count the penny before the salary - but better with it. ” I do not understand the psychology of people. Here is really another country behind the Urals, another life. I have been living for four years and still do not understand.

I don't want to work in the elections anymore. Three days until late, red tape, nerves. We paid 13400 rubles. In the last election, the day for the governor went more expensive.

Of course, I am not satisfied with a lot of things, but I still have to live here. To go out to be indignant - they will drive me out of work at least, where the hell is where I will arrange, just in my pocket Nasru, as the people say.

The option only if you go to the north to work. For the war, somehow reluctantly-this is called one direction.