1/16 As an inmate of a maximum-security prison, I too would like to give my opinion on the recruitment of criminals for the war.
2/16 I've read the transcript of the infamous video. There's a lot to talk about, including the number of people who will now decide to commit a serious crime, knowing that even if they get caught, there will be a way to avoid serving time.
3/16 But I have an insider's perspective on another subject. It is stated that murderers, robbers, brigands, and grievous bodily harm are required to participate in the war.
4/16 And for some reason many are under the impression that these categories of convicts are some sort of brutal fighters. Kind of like in Suicide Squad.
5/16 Of course, there's different kinds of people in jail. There's probably a couple of militants, too. But I can tell you that 90% of the time:
- A killer is a heavy drinker who once got so drunk that he stabbed his neighbor, drinking buddy, or (most commonly) his wife 18 times
6/16 - A mugger is a guy who, in search of money, would go to shopping malls and extort phones from schoolchildren
- A robber is a drunkard who stalked women to their homes, where he snatched their bags from them. To get the bag faster, he hit the women on the head with a hammer
7/16 - Those who are in for grievous bodily harm got into a drunken brawl where they hit someone in the head with a club or a stone.
What could such an army even accomplish in combat?
8/16 They don’t call them "criminal elements" for nothing. There is a reason why, both in the USSR and now in Russia, former convicts are not accepted into the army. Almost all such people have big problems with discipline and even bigger problems with alcohol and substances.
9/16 Of course, if the combat mission were to walk around the area asking people for moonshine, the convicts would make perfect soldiers. They would also be perfect for carrying out the order to drain the fuel from the equipment, sell it, and use the money to buy booze.
10/16 I don't believe in prohibition under threat of execution. Everyone there has a gun and it's not clear who's going to shoot who.
11/16 Disciplined convict stormtroopers are as much a tall story as the "dozens of successful wars by the Wagner PMC". Where are they, these wars? They only exist in Prigozhin's dreams.
12/16 I think the first thought of any convict who saw this video was: "Dear God, if they are recruiting us for the war, then what is the state of the regular Russian army? Does it not exist at all anymore?"
13/16 The only thing we can be sure of is that the few murderers, robbers and muggers that survive will certainly never go back to a normal life.
14/16 They will continue to rob and kill, but now they will also demand special treatment, shouting: "We shed our blood for you!" You can actually see the first signs of this in this video.
15/16 P.S. I am personally disgusted with the state of lawfulness in the Federal Penitentiary Service. They keep me in a punishment cell for a month for an undone button, but at the same time a man who is a former criminal himself...
16/16 ...comes to maximum security prisons and makes speches in front of murderers saying: "I will get you out and make storm troopers out of you". Can you imagine the mess our country has become?
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1/6 I'm like that monkey that covers its mouth, eyes and ears with its hands. I can't see, I can't hear, I can't speak. Only in my case the hands are not mine, but Putin's.
2/6 You may remember that I have been successively forbidden to meet with my lawyer privately, to meet with my lawyer just normally, to receive any documents, and finally, to look at any documents.
3/6 And now they have taken away all the papers from my lawyer at the entrance to the colony, saying that from now on the administration of the colony will decide what is relevant to the criminal case and what is not, and therefore, what can be read out to me and what can't.
1/7 Я как та обезьянка, которая закрывает себе рот, глаза и уши. Не вижу, не слышу, не говорю. Только в моем случае лапки не мои, а путинские.
2/7 Вы помните, что мне последовательно запретили: встречаться с адвокатом конфиденциально; встречаться с адвокатом просто нормально; получать какие-либо документы; смотреть на какие-либо документы.
3/7 Ну и вот сейчас на входе в колонию у моего адвоката забрали вообще все бумаги, которые он нес, заявив, что теперь администрация колонии будет решать, что имеет отношение к уголовному делу, а что не имеет. Соответственно, что можно мне зачитывать, а что нельзя.
1/16 Ну, давайте я тоже как обитатель тюрьмы строгого режима скажу свое мнение о вербовке уголовников на войну. Я прочитал расшифровку знаменитого видео.
2/16 Много о чем тут можно поговорить, включая то, сколько теперь людей решится на тяжкое преступление, зная, что если даже и поймают, то есть вот такой способ избежать отсидки.
3/16 Но у меня взгляд изнутри на другую тему. Заявляется, что для участия в войне требуются убийцы, грабители, разбойники и нанесшие тяжкие телесные повреждения.
1/4 At today's meeting with my lawyer we were no longer indignant at the new invention of the Kremlin and the prison authorities. We simply laughed. We couldn't stop laughing for five minutes.
2/4 No one had ever seen anything like that. Earlier my lawyers were forbidden to hand me over any documents. They got fenced off from me with a solid wall of metal bars and plastic. But now this plastic was made opaque.
3/4 They've put a film over it and now the lawyers cannot even SHOW me any documents. And now my meeting with a lawyer really looks like a confession in a Catholic church.
1/4 На сегодняшней встрече с адвокатом мы уже не возмущались, глядя на новое изобретение кремлевско-тюремных властей, а просто смеялись. Минут 5 не могли остановиться.
2/4 Такого точно никто никогда не видел. Если раньше адвокатам запретили передавать какие-либо документы, отгородив их от меня сплошной стеной из металлической решетки и пластика, то сейчас этот пластик сделали непрозрачным.
3/4 Заклеили пленкой, и теперь адвокаты не могут даже ПОКАЗАТЬ мне какие-то документы. И теперь свидание с адвокатом максимально похоже на исповедь в католической церкви.
1/8 They brought me out of my cell to the commission, where the administration solemnly announced: «It has been established that you continue your criminal activity, you are committing crimes directly from the prison facilities.
2/8 And you communicate with your accomplices through lawyers. Therefore, we abolish the attorney-client privilege with regard to you. All incoming and outgoing lawyer documents will henceforth be subject to a three-day check».
3/8 To my surprised question: «May I ask what terrible extremist crimes I am committing?», they replied: