No evil lives forever

18-year-old Daria Kozyreva is sitting in a pre-trial detention center-she threatens five years for "re-discrediting the Russian army." Here is her letter to all Russians

Daria Kozyreva is one of the youngest political prisoners. Two years ago, she studied at the medical faculty of St. Petersburg State University and took an active civil position. In 2023, she was charged with an administrative article for an anti -war post on VKontakte and expelled from the university. And on February 24, 2024, Kozyrev was detained after she glued a leaflet with a poet of the poet on a monument to Taras Shevchenko. Kozyreva threatens five years for "re -discrediting the Russian army." She is located in a pre -trial detention center in St. Petersburg, where the court awaits. There, especially for the "cold", she wrote a column about silence, fear and hope. We publish it without an editing.

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A heavy impenetrable cocoon - a coconut of silence, entered Russia. How many crimes Putin’s dictatorship committed, how much she captured and destroyed other people's cities, how many murders and torture in her arms, and the answer to all villains is a deaf silence.

Many people prefer not to know what is happening, close their eyes, plug ears. Many are deceived, wanting to be deceived - after all, it is so easy to blindly believe what the TV says, even if he broadcasts the most monstrous lie.

But many are well aware of what this villainous power is creating, their disagreement, their indignation, their anger are under their heart. And still for some reason they are silent.

Just as any villainy is committed with someone's silent consent, so any dictatorship is kept thanks to the silence of the people. The colossus on the clay legs will cost nothing if all the disagreements speak.

But they are silent.

Someone believes that everything was decided and nothing to him, a little man, climb into it. Someone hopes that others will say everything for him-only others also find excuses to be silent.

Meanwhile, the real reason for this silence is human fear, wild fear. No dictatorship can force himself to believe everyone and everyone - therefore, she constantly resorts to fear, to its first and last means to subjugate the people.

The Germans in Hitler’s era dutifully shouted “Hail”, realizing what could be with them for disobedience; In the era of Stalin, Soviet people were afraid to whisper in their own kitchen, fearing the denunciation. The rink of repressions does not even need to crush all the disagreements - a little indicative examples, and the rest will plug their mouths themselves.

The absurdity of Putin's repressions reached such an extent that any little thing can become a reason for persecution - and no one already knows exactly what can be said. The Kremlin villain is satisfied, the Kremlin villain is necessary. While everyone is silent, his own skin will be safe.

And that's why you can’t be silent. No, human fear is clear: to risk your position, your prospects, and its freedom is very difficult. In addition, many have families - such people are doubly scared. But will these families be easier to live with a dictatorship, under the tightly twisted nuts, behind an iron curtain?

The dictatorship can continue to create its atrocities, its iniquities, while the power and power feels. And nothing will change, while everyone will humbly be silent.

So maybe it's time to speak?

Everyone who can speak should speak. The units that dared to say is now too little to make something to move. Everyone who does not agree with the Moscow regime should speak. It is easy to send units to bars for words - but only because their units. But on all, on all those who disagree in Russia, there will not be enough prisons. Even if especially for them the authorities build the same amount.

But when, having overcome fear, everyone will speak, it will come to be afraid of the Putin's pack.

No evil lives forever, any dictatorship will certainly fall. She can fall under her own weight, as the USSR collapsed, or thanks to the rebel, finally, to the people.

Do not let this dictatorship live longer than she could live. Speak, people!

The author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office.