Our house is a prison

How Russia re -learned to talk about the deadlines and stages

The prison in Russia has always been close - and the experience of millions of people, and songs and jargon, which officials spoke and speak. From the prison, they talked, and from Suma.

Speak, yes, everyone said. But if for the inhabitants of villages and workers' villages, it was often personal experience or experience of family members - in the province, a lot of people passed through the conclusion, then for a significant part of the intelligentsia, the formed estate after Stalin, the prison was rather a metaphor, because your attitude to the system, but you personally will never affect you. Can't touch!

And now the prison has entered the life of those who seriously did not try on it to themselves - you wanted unity with the people, so here it is! Talking about programs in jail, about letters in the colony, about whether the process will be closed, ceased to be exotic. They are woven into the context of discussion of the weather, the conflict in the child at school, the health of elderly parents.

And more and more people, not at all people, but those with whom he communicated, was friends, sat at one table - already there, behind bars, and more and more those who left, so as not to be there.

We always met this when I came to Petersburg. It’s not that they were friends close, but they experienced mutual sympathy and rejoiced at the coincidence of our assessments. Waiting for a trial on terrible charges, it will not work.

And with this, on the contrary, they cursed publicly, thought and talked about each other different. He has already received a long term. I don’t know if you will see you someday, but thanks to the lawyers who passed our letters to each other-he was then in the pre-trial detention center, and I was in the special receiver-they managed to make peace. We have nothing to share now, and our enemies are common.

But even for those who are not involved in “activism”, who tries to live, as before, in nothing, if possible, without interfering, the prison has become closer. The pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova is sitting. Previously, pediatricians were not planted, it seemed impossible - nonsense, madness - but they were imprisoned. And now all her colleagues know about her arrest, including those who are not close to her views. They voluntarily or involuntarily try on to themselves - in the way, maybe the goal. Physicist was put for espionage in favor of Honduras - earlier his colleagues at the institute were afraid to become a victim of intrigue, lose funding or even work. Now they, realizing that he is not guilty of anything, are afraid to lose freedom. And even those who are not afraid understand that the prison is not folklore at all, this is part of life.

Understanding came - probably, it was with people under Stalin - that everyone can “take” everyone. At least everyone who writes something and says (and who does not write and does not say, so that someone thought that you wrote and spoke). After all, they give a deadline for posts and statements of a ten -year -old, and indeed any prescription. And for those about which you forgot. And which you did not write - I was once fined for a post on a network in which I do not have an account at all. Soon they will arrest for school works. You are essentially guilty, you cannot feel safe - even if you got off with a fine of one case, you can be attracted right tomorrow. The statute of limitations do not work-they will post your text somewhere on the Internet and say that this is a "continuing crime." And the indictment, perhaps, has been written for a long time, you just do not know about it yet. And what are you a terrorist or a traitor to the homeland, so not about you, but to the investigator. How his predecessor from the NKVD was known, who was Trotskyist. The man himself did not know, but this did not help.

Prison practices are included in life, often in the most exotic way. So Yashin was given another schizo for the “violation of the shape of clothing”, which, as I understand it, was that he changed after the shower and at the time of dressing was dressed in no form. This is in prison.

But Olga Buzova performed in an inappropriate from the point of view of a variety of Mizulin outfit. She now publicly apologizes and swears love for her homeland. The naked party continues! This is all at large, do not confuse!

The madness of the authorities is understandable and not surprising. But it still surprises me - although it was time to stop wondering! - How many people, like quite successful and independent, turned into prisoners. Moreover, not in people like Yashin or most political prisoners, but in the convicts of broken, surrendered, lost their own dignity.

The same Buzova is not poor, to put it mildly, a lady. Why not send Mizulin and the deputies who joined her? And Kirkorov, Ivleeva and others? Their work, let’s say politely, is not close and in my personal plan I did not expect any valor from them. But why humiliate so? They won’t put you, and they will not take the money.

Or the leader made a personnel decision - to send Andrei Turchak (a person, in my opinion, quite disgusting) to exile at Altai - you will be a governor there. I remember that, after the exposure of the anti -Party group, Molotova appointed the ambassador first to Hungary, and then even to Mongolia, which in the context of our history was more than humane. And what would the Turchak, who aimed at the post of chairman of the Federation Council, and maybe higher, whom Putin did not even consider it necessary to accept personally - he announced the disgrace of the video - not to abandon the new position? Thank you, they say, for trust, but I do not feel in power. No, thanked and bowed. And the funny thing is that in Altai there was a governor. Oleg Harohordin was his name. I didn’t hold a candle, but I believe that some small clerk called him and said: “Give him, Oleg, resigned, the boss has other plans for Altai.” And he gave it! Well, it is clear that no one chose him that voters, in relation to which he may have obligations, he did not have and did not have. But there were some plans, he wanted to do something in Altai. Why didn't he resist? If only for something grandchildren respect.

But no, it's not about them. Remember, Putin said that Peskov, a person who serves him faithfully, covers his blunders, “often drives a blizzard”? Well, you must admit, Peskov did not have another way out of how to resign - since you are so, Your Majesty, then let the other shit be selected for you. But no, swallowed. The system carefully and very successfully selects people who are completely deprived of self -esteem. It is knocked out of the convicts torture and violence and, as we see, does not always work. These give themselves. Or he has never been.

The danger of prison and persecution for everyone is different. They take mainly people from our liberal part of the political spectrum. But not only. They take both left and nationalists. They take those who are against the "party line", but sometimes those who, like, for. And for what? And for the fact that they are not on the command of “for”, but they really think so. Do not think! What was told to you is right. And if tomorrow, on the contrary, they say, so this is “on the contrary” you must consider the truth. Sincerely!

It is interesting that “sterilely excited” - this term is already more than a hundred years - always retain a “fundamental position”. If they took bad - from their point of view or, indeed, a bad person - they do not experience sympathy for him. How, they say, you can express solidarity if he/she says this or in one thousand some year did that? And those who, on themselves or on their loved ones, were faced with a repressive system, who did not sit at least for long, who wore programs and sought lawyers, on the contrary, are ready to help, including their ideological opponents. They, who know not firsthand what the heavy hand of the organs is, understand that the enemy is now not the one who says or thinks not that, but the one who is he and you, and put you for what you think and say. Yes, he is deeply wrong, he says terrible things, but now you are in the same pre -trial detention center - it is to be taken away after liberation.

And the prison now, yes, part of our life. They waited for anything, but not that!