In all my prisons and camps, I was always the only political prisoner.
Now in Muscovy, they are planting in batches; There are already thousands of political prisoners. Different categories: from participants in anti-war protests on the streets and arsonists of military registration and enlistment offices – to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Hizb ut-Tahrir. There are now thousands of political prisoners there, and their number will only grow and grow.
It’s not surprising: the year in there is 1937 – it’s been a long time since 2019 – and there’s no end in sight. The flywheel of political terror, like in 1937, will only spin up and spin up…
But since they don’t allow you to defend your rights in the wild and imprison you for literally everything, for every word and any access to the square, it means that you have to fight for your rights there, in the zones.
You need to immediately, in advance, clearly and understand: “fighting” the System according to the laws and rules of the System itself is nothing. It will never work. The old purely nonviolent and legalistic human rights defence is long dead. Any complaints to any prosecutor’s office, “courts”, internal security services and other government agencies will always receive the same standard answer: your complaint has not been confirmed. And on the spot, you will also be subject to pressure for these complaints…
For myself, I know one thing very well. Namely: it is much more pleasant to sit for something truly done, out of conviction, from the heart, than just like that, for nothing. For words, likes, reposts, even for going to the square with a poster. Words in our time have depreciated a little rather than completely. We need things to do.
I proceed from the fact that there are more and more political prisoners, but the number of prisons and zones is still not infinite, and building new prisons is not so fast and not so cheap. This means the number of political prisoners in one prison or zone will increase.
There will be no political zones this time. It is too convenient an option to press political prisoners with the hands of criminals. Criminals – in the vast majority of cases – are the same enemies as guards.
Political prisoners in prisons and zones need to unite.
And beat the guards. Or better yet, kill them altogether.
No amount of complaining will help. The regime must not be “shaken,” as criminals like to say, but brought down. The regime consists of these bastards in uniform and shoulder straps. They are the regime!
The goal, which seems impossible, and unrealistic, but for which we must strive, should be the following: neutralize the guards; maybe make a break in the fence from the inside or outside; and – run away from this area. Let them catch them later if they can…
If anything, the security tower on the other side of the fence, from outside, is an excellent target. There is communication now almost everywhere, too, so…
If it is unrealistic to flee, at least the guards must be forced to respect the rights of political prisoners. The Code of Political Prisoners contains such things that are completely unthinkable for the current Muscovite zones, such as the right to wear your own clothes, not to stand up when your superiors appear, and not to wear, of course, any tags…
You don’t have to think that you will be released on parole, as many criminals believe. Not only on parole, but at the end of the term you are not guaranteed to be released. For any conversation with convicted criminals, you will easily get even more rewards, there are already examples. And in any case, they will find something to complain about.
Unite! Don’t be afraid of anything! Together you are strong!
It mustn’t be the political prisoners who are afraid of the guards, but the guards of the political prisoners.
If necessary, guards must be beaten. Don’t obey them, don’t submissively put your hands behind your back at their command, but hit! Or better yet, kill! There can be no struggle for freedom, especially in a totalitarian state, in which there are only corpses of champions of freedom, and no corpses of guards, executioners, informers and other dogs of the regime.
The corpse of a Russian Federal Penitentiary Service employee always smells good.
Believe me, it will be much easier and more pleasant to sit for someone killed with your own hands, rather than be on a merry-go-round or an opera, than for some mythical “discredit of the armed forces of the Russian Federation” on the Internet, for which they now give up to 15 years in camps…
Their destruction in the camps, the weakening of the camps themselves, and the uprisings in them – bring closer the collapse of the regime and the release of all political prisoners.
It is necessary to beat, or better yet kill, those who make up this government, who directly carry out all the punitive measures of the Kremlin on the ground – imprison, “judge”, guard, escort, transport, lock in cells and solitary confinement cells, harass, beat with batons… They must be destroyed physically both in freedom and in prison, so they know that the price of a high salary for the next rank and a good service “social package” is their life, no less. Then, perhaps, they will begin to realize, that there is only one life and that is more valuable than any titles, money and social packages – and they will run away from their jobs! Which ideally will lead to disorganization and paralysis of the System, because all Putins, Medvedevs, Patrushevs, Bortnikovs, etc. – no one can call them without armed punitive detachments in full equipment who arrive at their first call…
In prisons and zones, naturally, such a struggle is much harder than in the wild. But it gives a chance to survive and free oneself from the zone and from the totalitarian regime. Submission to the executioners leaves the victim no chance at all.
Beat the guards, the operatives, the detachments, the master’s deputies and the masters themselves! Beat them, kill them, don’t let them terrorize and beat you! For each of their blows, for each attempt to “tighten the screws”, to put someone in an isolation cell, to eat, add a sentence – we must respond with blows to the death against these bastards in camouflage! There are more and more political prisoners, and together they are strength!
The thieves, naturally, will oppose you; the thieves are always on the side of the administration. Beat and kill the thieves, if they impose a regime on you, there is no need to stand on ceremony with them! During my two terms, I studied very well this important weapon of the administration – pressure through thieves.
And if, in response to your activity, they introduce their “special conditions” for the functioning of the zones and call the FSIN special forces for total beatings – it is best that at the watch these special forces are met by the heads of the establishment, his deputies, detectives, detachments, etc., strung on poles and tied to a fence. For the same money, twice the fun, as they say.
There is no need to be afraid of anything. There is no need to hope for anything. “Do not trust, do not fear, do not ask.” It’s better to die standing than to live on your knees. It is better to sit down to action than words. It is better to fight with the guards than to meekly allow them to beat you. And the best thing is to kill the guards and break the System!
In the struggle, you will find your right!
For the Russian camp and prison hell,
For their “Face the wall!”, “Hands back!”,
For the eternal “Not allowed!” answer –
It’s time to send them all to the next world!
DEATH TO RUSSIA!
Boris STOMAKHIN, political prisoner 2006-11 and 2012-19.
Kyiv, April 2024.
PS I ask everyone who is related to political prisoners in Muscovy – their relatives, lawyers, human rights activists remaining there, etc. – to help in every possible way to get the text of this letter to the political prisoners.
