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I don't want to prison
What can seem to turn out to be legitimate curiosity
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In order not to get behind bars, the Criminal Code must be observed. Ostap Bender even said that the Criminal Code must be “honor” - like a shrine.
The main prohibitions are widely known: do not kill, do not steal ... But there is a dubious area where many constantly fall (they are in), not knowing whether they will be punished for this. In the interests of millions of such people and, one might say, on their behalf and for the sake of their safety, we will take a chance to ask a few questions.
If you write the names of three or four cities in a row, where tragic events have occurred recently, will the simple transfer of these cities become the basis for arrest, to accuse someone or something? Simple transfer: without dates, without the number of dead and wounded, without nothing - without adjectives, verbs, metaphors and/or hyperbole. After all, it is clear that the listing of Soviet cities of the times of the Great Patriotic War (Vyazma, Kyiv, Rzhev ...) will not cause negative consequences, although hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands died in each cauldron; These were tragedies of a huge scale.
Is there a certain “statute of limitations”, after which the conversation about the tragedies becomes safe?
If a person asks: “Why what happened in Chechnya in 1995 is called a Chechen war and this is not persecuted in any way, but what is happening in Ukraine (from 2022 to this day) is ordered to be called a special military operation?” - Will such a question become the basis for a criminal case against this person?
If a person asks: "Why do not the population (Russian citizens) not report losses?" - What will he (the person) be for it?
If you ask: “Is it good that the president, who was elected for 4 years in 2000 and had the right for a maximum of 8 years (that is, until 2008), has been in this position for more than 25 years, and how much is still unpredictable?” - Will this issue become a legal basis for persecution? ..
Note: all these issues are not calls for any protest actions; All these issues are formulated exclusively within the framework of normative vocabulary and cannot be regarded as an insult to anyone's feelings.
All these issues are exclusively caused by the desire not to violate any law, for those laws (prohibitions) that are currently transferred in the articles of the Criminal Code, do not fully reflect the changeable legal realities of May 2025.
Probably, you, dear reader, noticed how caution the questions are formulated with. Perhaps this caution crushed you (especially if you live abroad, and you, as a professor of Playshner, are getting drunk the air of freedom). But do you think so caution (cowardice) is completely groundless? And if not, it means that you admit that the task for such questions can get trouble for his, suppose, head. And if you admit, it means that our opinions about the established (thickening) political atmosphere coincide. Yes, and how could it be otherwise when we see what kind of, it would seem, completely innocent words turn out to be arrested.
The fact of the matter is that the innocence of words (unlike the girl) is evaluative-that is, it depends entirely on the views and tasks of the appraiser. I admit that in his eyes the asked questions are nothing more than a rug in the entrance.
When the appraiser wipes his legs on him, the rug is sure that he is shaking. Not at all! The appraiser simply cleaned his shoes. The rights and interests of rugs in the minds of appraisers simply do not exist.
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