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Soul in prison
Do what should
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The innocent were sentenced on Monday. Today is Friday - where is the pardon petition?
A spokesman for the President of Russia said that in the Kremlin they are allegedly not interested in this case and do not interfere in court cases. We will not even reason if he told the truth or not. We are not about the Kremlin.
We are about cultural figures. About the most famous and successful.
With the requirement (request?), Berkovich and Petriychuk should not turn to the president, not dissidents, emigrants, “foreign agents”.
The requirement of pardon should sound not from London, the Baltic states, Brussels, etc., namely, from artists, musicians, artists, writers who have been caught by Russian power. This is their duty to the country, a great culture, to their children and in front of themselves.
They know Galich’s song by heart:
Smell - you will get into the executioners.
Here is not such a long -standing story, example and lesson.
President Putin once talked with film director Sokurov. It is possible that their dialogue will go down in history. Nobody with Putin said so for all 17 years of his presidency (it was seven years ago).
The director stood up for a person sentenced to 20 years in prison. When reading a transcript (from the official website of the Kremlin), try to decide whether Sokurov asks or demands?
Sokurov. I have a heartfelt request for you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, like a Russian citizen. Let's solve the problem of Oleg Sentsov. Ukrainian director, 20 years of camps, a guy sits in the northern camp. I beg you, find a solution to this problem. The director must fight me at film festivals, if he has a different, including a political point of view, but not sitting in our Arctic practically, in the north, prison.
Putin. We must proceed from the fact that we live in a legal state, and issues of this kind, of course, should be resolved by the judicial system. He was convicted not for creativity, but for the fact that, according to the investigation authorities and the court, he actually devoted his life to terrorist activities.
The president answered. The second time to ask about the same thing is to show the president that his answer is unsatisfactory. To show publicly, because there a hundred people were sitting at a meeting of the Council on Culture and Art. The television cameras worked.
Sokurov. Can a simple emotional young man understand the intricacies and complexity of the political moment?
Putin. The matter is completely not in his position. The point is not at all what he thinks about the events that occurred in the Crimea. The point is in his intentions and the preparation of unlawful actions, as a result of which our citizens could suffer.
The director is stubbornly for the third time:
Sokurov. Vladimir Vladimirovich, in Russian, in Christian mercy above justice. I beg you. Mercy is above justice. Please.
Speech, as we see, is no longer about Sentsov. It's about the principles, about the highest matters ...
Putin. In Russian and Christianly, we will not be able to act in this situation without a court decision. The court decision took place. Yes, there are certain rules and norms that we can use, but for this it is necessary that the appropriate conditions be matured.
This is already softer. Putin knows exactly what he says when he admits that "there are norms that we can use." He can. The Constitution of Russia, Chapter 4, Art. 89: "The President is pardoning." Nobody petitions, no approval is required for him. Sokurov does not stop, he clings to this concession.
Sokurov. Help!
Putin. I repeat: no one condemned him for his views, for his position. The condemnation occurred for his intentions to perform a terrorist nature and which could lead to the most severe consequences for our citizens. This is the matter, and not in his position. Everyone has the right to position, and no one would condemn him for this. Only in this, believe me, only this is the matter.
The president says “believe me” - he already asks Sokurov. But he is the fifth time! The fifth time in a row:
Sokurov. There are no deaths on it, there is no death.
Putin. Thank God that not, but they could. This is the problem. It’s completely not the case, Alexander Nikolaevich, that he somehow thought differently than you and I. But thank you for paying attention to this, I know that this is a sensitive question, I will keep it in mind.
The president almost agreed. Even for a look, to stop ...
Sokurov repeated "begging", and yet: did he ask or demanded? “I demand” and “I ask” - the difference, it would seem, is very large. And you think - everything is unsteady, blurred, it all depends on who speaks, to whom and how.
The presidential "I ask" equally orders. Pensioner "demand" equal to zero. The director in this situation is near the pensioner.
From the point of view of the official, Sokurov behaved ugly, brazenly and stupidly. Officials think so because they themselves would never have dared to haul so much. And are only officials? And you, reader, would dare?
But Putin did not sit officials. Famous cultural figures are musicians, artists, writers ... Nobody supported Sokurov.
Who knows how everything would turn out if Gergiev, Mironov, Piotrovsky, Tsiscaridze, Bashmet, Tabakov were attached to their vote ...
... Everything else that was said at that meeting will disappear (it has already disappeared), only the dispute about mercy remained. Heroes remain in history, and slaves disappear without a trace.
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After this dialogue in the Kremlin, a few days later, for Sentsova, the famous writer's organization-the Russian Pen-Center very modestly stood up. His executive committee published a "statement". It begins like this:
“The Russian Pen-Center is concerned about the fate of Sentsov and asks the President of the Russian Federation and the Russian courts to really promote the mitigation of the conditions for the content of this film director and the writer.”
“Statement”, as you see, is written in a whisper (it appeared only on the website of the PEN center); Modest (they ask not to have mercy, but just “soften the conditions”). And oddly enough, it contains exactly such a misunderstanding as one of the president’s answers.
He, answering Sokurov, said: "Questions of this kind, of course, should be resolved by the judicial system." And the writers in their “statement” turn to the “Russian courts”.
And why on earth? The court is behind, the verdict was issued, the issue of pardon is entirely in the hands of the president, and the “mitigation of the conditions” should not be asked for courts, but by the FSIN (raids).
Then the Pen-Merbses long and Putano explain in their statement why they allegedly cannot ask for pardon. They refer to the law that applies only to prisoners and jailers and cannot limit the president’s right to pardon.
The “statement” ends like this:
“We are human rights activists, not offenders, and do not intend to support such unlawful actions. We will be merciful, but we will not be illegal! ”
Evaluate the last proud phrase. The writers managed to combine the call (we will be merciful!) With the assurance of their loyalty (we will not be illegal!).
Are you illegal? Is there a law prohibiting asking for pardon?
The rule is simple and understandable: what is not prohibited is permitted.
There is no law that prohibits asking and even demanding anything from the president. People on straight lines ask for a Christmas tree, road repair, salary, landing corrupt officials ...
Sokurov demanded a pardon, and no one said that he had violated the law or at least decency. After all, he did not ask himself money, buildings, contracts. He did not ask for himself.
... the constitution is above the president (he cannot violate it). Human rights (chapter 2) above the rights of the President (chapter 4).
The Constitution of Russia, Chapter 2. Rights and freedoms of man and citizen. The fundamental rights and freedoms of man are inalienable and belong to everyone from birth.
Article 29. Everyone guarantees freedom of thought and word. No one can be forced to express their opinions and beliefs or abandoning them.
How could writers voluntarily abandon their rights? How could they write that the request for pardon should be considered illegal? They are at large in their souls, in prison.
It's not about Sentsov; He accidentally turned up on the historical path. This is a matter of Russian writers (thank God, not all). The matter is voluntary slavery. Is it to quote the definition of Lenin, who is a “voluntary slave”? Once they taught it at school; We do not know how now. But members of the Executive Committee of the Russian Pen-Center know this definition by heart.
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Citizens! You eat and drink every day. Stuff the stomach with food, pour everything there in a row; If this is rubbish, you are sick, and if poison, you are dying.
In the same way, every day you fill your soul with writers' writers. If the composition is rubbish, the soul is sick, rot, and if poison, the soul dies, disappears. They say about such a person: a soulless bastard.
Stalin called the writers “engineers of human souls” because he understood: their works form, build, construct a person. Of course, if he is a reader.
But even if you never read books, you still consume writing products daily in incredible quantities. After all, everything that tells you from the television screen, someone wrote. You dreamily repeat the words of the Zhelov “The Thief must sit in prison”, but first someone wrote it, then Vysotsky learned, and only then said Zheglov.
Today, everything that the characters of the series say (a noble cop, a noble bandit, a heroic prostitute or an honest crush in love), writers composed.
And of course, they should have clean hands, a hot heart ... Otherwise, after all, they will compose some rot, and the consumer’s soul will poison and die.
Stirlitz, “Diamond Hand”, “White Sun of the Desert”, “Woe from Wit” filled our souls with phrases that we use daily. Saying, we become a little hero ... “Your nobleness, Madam Luck” - first Okudzhava wrote, then Luspecaev learned, and only then the amazing man Vereshchagin sang - so much so that the whole Soviet Union fell in love immediately and forever. (You sympathize with the current thieving customs officer. He took bribes all day, torn three skins, missed smuggling. In the evening he watches “I don’t take the bribes, I am offended for the state,” and in the morning I have to take bribes at the scum again. What kind of spiritual torment!)
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There are texts that have broken away from their authors and exist on their own. They are called folk. For example, “Katyusha went ashore” - everyone knows, everyone is singing, she is in every collection of Russian folk songs, and who is the author? (Do not climb the Internet, just admit to yourself that you do not know.)
But the text is less famous, but also wandering by itself from books, films, memoirs:
“What is your shell, tortoise?” -
I asked and received the answer:
- He is from me accumulated fear.
There is nothing stronger in the world.
The shell, of course, is a very strong protection. And how do you think - this is a prison, shackles; All my life crawling on the belly.
They recall another loud “theatrical business”. But in vain. Serebrennikov (Gogol-Center) was accused of fraud, more than a hundred million. And Berkovich and Petriychuk - for the play and the performance.
It is one thing - when the state puts for theft (even if invented). Another - when the state plants those who he do not like.
And finding an article by the Criminal Code, finding villains-subnosions and expert-falsifiers has always been simple.
But you, the stars of the screen and Luzhnikov, is the time for you to shout: “Goyda! Freedom is innocent! " You will be heard in the Kremlin and everywhere.