Coal or Life: The Story of One Confrontation
10.01.2022
... Or where are the partisans in Kuzbass
From the Editor: Today we are publishing an interview-story, for the writing of which the author - a Kemerovo resident and a member of the ROT FRONT party - had to go on a journey, albeit not very distant, but difficult for winter times - to the "A-triangle". Although this triangle is not Bermuda, things are going on wonderful in it too: kilometers on the map turn into hundreds of meters on the ground, a “communist” (from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) and an uncompromising fighter against coal mines suddenly turns into a deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and a compromiser with coal miners ... , about everything in order. A word to the author.
What prompted me to go to Alekseevka was the fact that I somehow received a message via whatsapp with an audio story about the confrontation between the inhabitants of the villages of Apanas, Alekseevka and Ananyino and the owners of coal mines, who put the profit from coal mining above the ability to live in these villages, above existence nature, fertile soil layers, taiga, rivers, air. Mentioned in the story and about the " Kuznetsk partisans”, Which are rumored in these places. Leaflets are distributed on their behalf, equipment burns at the open-pit mines, accidents occur. Some believe that the "partisans" really exist and are fighting on the side of the protesters, while others believe that these are provocations of the coal miners themselves, and it is not clear which of this is true. The above-mentioned audio story does not answer this question either. However, I did not come in search of this answer. And in order to meet with the authors, activists of the fight against open-pit mines, Vladimir Gorenkov and Sergei Sheremetyev... I hoped to record their story in a better quality than what was dictated to the phone by Vladimir, and I also prepared some questions. Whether this interview can be considered, I do not know - I am not a journalist. I myself am interested in the history of the struggle, and I consider it my duty to share it with as many readers as possible.
The old ROT FRONT activist San Sanych accompanied me on my trip and showed me the way... He advised us to take shovels with us - suddenly we get stuck and have to dig out. “Last time, - says San Sanych, - we went to the guys, we went down normally, but we didn't manage to get back up right away. There was a thaw, rain, then frost and ice. Snow fell, and the ice was slightly dusted. But when we returned, the grader was working, he removed the snow, left an ice crust. We were skidded into a snowdrift along it, we had to dig, and only on the second attempt we somehow managed to overcome the ice, even though the wheels were studded. The question is - what did he clean there? ”. “Probably, the cut creates the appearance of caring for people: they say, we clean your dear ones.” - I answered. He himself counted on spikes, four-wheel drive and blocking. In our area you will see many different cars, but outside the city, where the highways end, “Niva” is the queen. But he obeyed and took the shovels.
After the Listvyagov, the route ended, technological roads began, a “washing board” with fine coal crumbs and dust rising despite the snow. I had to turn off the external air supply. After chatting with San Sanych, we missed one turn and ran into the barrier and the mine guard booth. We immediately got our bearings and turned around. San Sanych drew attention:
“Look how the guards are alarmed, how they are seeing them off with their eyes,” he pointed to three people in black uniforms at the security gate at the gate.
- Apparently, they are afraid that we are the intelligence of the "partisans", - I replied.
- They are all afraid of the partisans here ...
Leaflet "Kuznetsk partisans"
We arrived without incident, the shovels were not useful. Here is Alekseevka: several narrow streets, ordinary village houses, built in different ways, but not destroyed huts, as it seemed.
- There are 146 houses here. Of these, 17 are non-residential, of which two or three are abandoned, the rest are for sale. They live in some houses all the time, and in some only in the summer, in the winter - in the city, - San Sanych explained.
But in the city there is an opinion that there are already dead villages in several yards, the rest is all abandoned and destroyed.
Sergey Sheremetyev
Here is the house of Sergei Sheremetyev. Near the fence there is a “Niva” pretty eaten by rust. When the owner and hostess met us, I saw that the house was simple, rustic, with a through veranda, one door opened to the gate, the other to the garden. Inside the house there is a cramped kitchenette with buckets, flasks and other household utensils; at the exit from it, in the living room, there is a stove, which the owners were just about to light up. Modest decoration, a table, chairs, a small sofa, a bookcase, a shrine with icons. Cats and a small dog walk around the house like a boss. This is how the “paid” man lives - if not by the Jews from the planet Nibiru, then by Navalny's headquarters, no more, no less - the “protestor” and troublemaker Sergei Sheremetyev. I learned about Navalny's headquarters later, when his wife Oksana showed me the SMS that came to her phone from unknown numbers,
I settled down on the sofa in the living room, that is, I laid out and tuned the equipment there, checked the microphone. We decided to wait for Vladimir Gorenkov, who was to dictate the story. I immediately realized that the conditions were a little unsuitable. Household noise (I can’t ask the owners to leave business and remain quiet if work is always needed in my house), cats, a dog, a dog barking from the street - all this does not correspond to the “studio conditions” of work. Moreover, Vladimir said that he might not come for a long time. I decided to ask Sergei some questions, but it wasn’t necessary. He began the story himself - it is clear that he has nothing to hide and is himself interested so that as many people as possible know about what is happening in these places. And I turned on the recording.
Sergey Sheremetyev:
- Active actions began in 2017. Before that, in 2010-2013 there were local conflicts, without unification. In 2010, the Bungurskiy-Severny open-pit mine began to be dug for us. We demanded from them documents regulating the boundaries of the work, which, as it turned out, took place under the village itself. That is, then for the first time we went against the plans of the coal miners. Prior to that, the same fate befell Tilep (a village in the Novokuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region - editor's note) , but people there were simply naughty. Later, in 2017, people from Tilep joined us, but only one family.
In general, they demanded documents. At first, of course, we wrote letters: to the environmental protection, to the prosecutor's office, we hoped for the big bosses - that they would come and how they would all be screwed up! But they only warmed up on this. Any complaint to the control authorities is considered by the latter as a source of enrichment. That is, you can get a lot of money from an enterprise, and “for excuse” you can write them a fine of ten thousand. And as they dug, they continue to dig.
When we demanded documents from Bungursky-Severny, they foolishly gave us both license agreements and projects. They also promised us everything: to bring water, fountains, holidays ... And in the documents we saw falsification of distances. In fact, the distance to the border of the section is 300 meters, and according to documents - 1700 to Alekseevka. They say: "The law allows us to work close to the settlement, the sanitary zone can be from 100 m to 1 km." Whereas the law clearly states that at least a kilometer from the quarry where mining is taking place, 500 m from the dump, 300 m from the loading, and at least 100 m from the sewage treatment plant. 300 meters from the village. Henceforth, the management of the sections did not make such mistakes - that is, they did not show the documentation. The authorities said: "The FSB does not allow us to provide documents." It was the same with the village of Rassvet: it was not indicated in the documents at all. That is, the section is right on the territory of the village.
This is how, together with the Dawnovites, they began to protest. They had such an activist, Sokolova. The woman is already in years, so the workers of the mine attacked her - they pounded her right to the ground. She tried to fight through Moscow, went. Then the courts began.
We went to the open-pit mines: we tried to stop work, enter the explosion zone, and the like. And in four years they managed to stop work: the site was mothballed. Of course, later they said, they say, this is not because of people, not because of protests ... they never admit that this is the reason. As always, "their grenades are of the wrong system."
Then the site was put up for sale, and two very greedy people, Gagik Sukiasyan and Andrei Khalezin, one businessman in construction, another prosecutor's son, bought it. They were also told that the layer was uncovered, just flooded with water. You pump out the water, and here is coal for you. And what kind of fool will leave the exposed layer? They dumped everything that could be there. The conservation was in effect until 2020, that is, from January 1, 2020, they were supposed to start working. In 2019, they already drove an excavator (which was allegedly then set on fire by the "partisans" ). And they don't have much money. Nobody leases them equipment, and buying them themselves is a big risk, suddenly they won't be able to work. Moreover, Tsivilev outlined his position on the cuts in his speech.(After numerous protests and recording a video message to the head of the region at the press conference of Governor S. Tsivilev, a promise was made not to allow coal mining at Apanasovsky - author's link) "
Then Sergei showed satellite maps, on which you can see everything exhaustively. On a planetary scale, there are few such dark green spots, on all continents. And the taiga of Kuzbass is one of such places.
But if you zoom in on the map to the scale of the region, when the names of the “A-triangle” are read: Ananyino, Alekseevka, Apanas, a gray spot appears clearly. The entire Kuzbass is covered with such spots. These are cuts.
- Kiselevsk, Belovo - there are layers everywhere, everything is dug up, - Sergey comments on the map. - The most extreme is just the Apanasovsky site. But the strata go further. If they are not stopped here, they will tear everything apart. From the Altai side, cuts were also dug. Next is the Salair Park. Maybe it will be possible to create a buffer zone here, then it will be possible to stop them. In no case should they be allowed to continue to develop, otherwise the question will already arise in order to clean up the villages, Alekseevka, Apanas and Ananyino. On half of Ananyino's territory, plots have been cut, but not yet sold. A piece of Apanas also falls under development, but so far we are holding them back.
They promise a lot, they say, you have no road, we will build it. And they began to build - without a project, without transferring lands. Here through Listvyagi (existing), but through Mikhailovka, it turns out twice as far. "
I AM:
- That is, the question is in the survival of the villages themselves?
S.Sh .:
- Not only, but also the possibilities here of any life in general. Nothing will grow or live here. For this we stand here ...
I AM:
- Gagik Sukiasyan argues that if you do not start mining, coal can ignite spontaneously. Is it true or not?
"A-triangle"
S.Sh .:
- Yes, all this is a lie. In 2013, the cut stopped work - they chose everything they could. There is no exposed coal. Well, how can two empty pits ignite, from which everything has already been selected? If you mine coal, then you need to expand the quarry.
If you expand the quarry, you will have to dig up everything, and the location of the villages is clear from the map.
Question from San Sanych:
- What is smoking here, near Alekseevka? Is this not an Apanasov cut?
S.Sh .:
- No, this is exactly the Tuleyevsky dump. Dumping began in Soviet times; when stripping is in progress, the first coal is thrown out with the rock. And then, when the mining had already started, the peasants were reluctant to carry coal for loading, immediately unloaded the coal on the dump, poured the diesel fuel, and changed. It turns out that no one did the last trips, and there is a mixture of coal and diesel fuel. When this very "privatization" was underway, everyone began to go bankrupt. “Black diggers” appeared, but we scared them away. And then, under Tuleyev, when he allowed to dig everything and everywhere, a maximum of waste was brought here. From now on, a gray smoke is visible there. At a depth of less than a meter, the temperature there is over 700 degrees. We live next to an artificial volcano. As part of the reclamation of this dump, the new owners offered to extinguish it with clay dug out in the cuts. They just don't know anymore how else to get here. When there was privatization,“Tuleyev's dump” was moved beyond the boundaries of the site, it turned out to be nobody's. They want more money to reclaim this dump. Here, they drew up a project that supposedly it can be closed with clay. And where to get the clay? - At the Apanasovsky site. They even came up with a formulation: “there is a warehouse of clay in the pillar”. Gagik fussed about with this project on administrations, but we also came out with the fact that we would not give clay here. Under the guise of reclamation of the dump, they want to start stripping work. They laughed: "There is no coal!" And why does Gagik need this site then? There are strata under the villages ”.
Dump "Tuleyevsky" . Photo
Sergei recalled the struggle with the Bungurskiy-Severny open-pit mine: “They did not allow them to move on, they set up duty in the villages. As soon as the equipment came in, they immediately gathered there and drove out. Miroshnik, at that time the head of the Novokuznetsk district, to which it was possible to enter without a pass - easily communicated with the citizens - said directly: "These protests are beneficial to me, I will get more money from them."
I AM:
- That is, protest activity is used to warm up on it?
S.Sh .:
- Well, if Miroshnik used it to somehow help the region, the owners of the open-pit mines knocked out money under the pretext that “these troglodytes need one thing or the other ...”, and they themselves stuffed their pockets with the same money. For example, they made a fence in our cemetery - the picket fence and the rotten pillars, and according to the estimate - 600 thousand rubles. It was 2011, that is, 600 thousand - it was money, not what it is now.
And so in everything. For example, I personally don't need anything from them, just leave here, and that's it, let us live. And some people thought: "Well, they will do something for us." An agreement was concluded for two years. And during these two years it became clear who would have to deal with. For example, they undertook to repair a transformer - are they really electricians? And to repair the road - are they road builders? How they repaired the transformer for us - half of the village sat without light until real electricians arrived and fixed it. At the meeting, Miroshnik said: "How to deal with you if you haven't done half of what you undertook to do, and if you did, then it would be better not to do it?"
San Sanych:
- Here, for the overall picture ... About the collection of signatures, how many signatures have you collected?
S.Sh .:
- 300 signatures for the petition.
San Sanych:
- Who organized the collection of signatures? Nobody organized. Take, for example, one organization, the Education Defense Committee. They organized a protest against distance education, previously opposed gadgets. They collected signatures on all these actions. And then the courts began against them. In a word, there are people who collect signatures. But there is no center - such as to deal with the problem of the barbarity of coal mines - there is no one.
S.Sh .:
- It's not too late to create all this. It turns out that here, Kemerovo, south-western direction, just a wind rose - not a single cut, although there is coal. Novokuznetsk, south-western direction - 7 sections, from Stepanovskiy to Berezovskiy. Now the sections that you have seen are the Bungurskiy-Yuzhny 2 section, the last patch that separates a series of sections from the city. So the city is no less interested in fighting the cuts than we are.
Coal mine. Photo
I AM:
- There is an opinion among many people, since the 90s, that big business should come, create jobs, build infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals, etc. How about this? Not everyone agrees with the protests, are there compromisers too?
S.Sh .:
- And what about without it? There is, for example, the group of Yuri Bondar, who previously supported the protests ( deputy of the council of the Zagorsk rural settlement, ran for the Liberal Democratic Party, previously from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation; was elected as an opponent of coal mines - ed.) . But he never hid that he supported these protests in order to squeeze more from the cuts. Now he speaks about it directly, for example, in an interview.“Taige-info” that, they say, well done, they raised the problem to the whole world, but now we need to use it, negotiate, they will make good concessions. And he is not lying, he speaks the truth. At first, when they started to dig in Bungurskiy-Severny, the owners said so: they say, we have all the documents, but these natives - go nafig. And when we started performing - that's it, let's try to conclude different agreements with us. Well, Bondar also suggested last year: "Let's put forward conditions that are obviously impossible for them." And he began to fight directly, actively, as an example to us, they put him, they say, we must fight like Cooper. He, indeed, burned with words: he mentioned things that would come to bloodshed directly to the camera. But he didn’t agree to a real exit, he was afraid that they would “close”. Gorenkov then told him: they say, okay, you need to stay free, us, if anything,
And the referendum was held, and gathered, and the police dispersed. As a result, the referendum was not registered. And how can he not be registered? Only if the organizers themselves do not want to register it. In general, Bondar leaked the referendum, like the LDPR members, who realized that protests were a profitable business. At first, they came to us from the Communist Party, but said: "Guys, we can film all these cases, but there is no participation." The Liberal Democratic Party also organized the rally. We, of course, immediately set a condition - no flags, only the Kuzbass flag. Otherwise, everyone would have come with their own flags - it is possible that the "rainbow" would have appeared (laughed). Rallywas on September 24, 2017, 500 people. Its peculiarity was that there were representatives of the entire south of Kuzbass, from Belovo to Kiselevsk, as well as Prokopyevsk, Myski, Mezhdurechensk. Took place at the Public Events Square in Novokuznetsk. The only time a meeting of this magnitude was held was in the center of the city. I remember that the stage was not given to us, like it was being renovated. But we had a rostrum with the coat of arms of the Soviet Union, so they spoke from it.
Rally on September 24, 2017 in Novokuznetsk. Photo
Also, about August 26, 2017. We stopped the incision, mothballed it, it seems we are living normally. But here comes the technique. Trailers, excavators ... What's the matter? We are told: "There will be a cut here." How? What? I look on the Internet - it turns out, Ananyevsky-Vostochny. It captures our road, the substation, and almost Tuleevsky dump. We ask - yes, there will be a cut! You have, they say, “… there are problems with the road and the substation. We will move the substation and build a new road. " Yes, we do not have to do anything, we are satisfied with the road and the substation. They answered: “We have a license, the state has given us.” We are to the authorities! They say something like "well, yes, everything is fine with them according to the documents." How normal is it? There was also a rally recently organized by the Liberal Democratic Party in Ordzhonikidze district on Flag Day, August 19. And what after the rally? Direct action only. And on August 26, we organize the blockage of the incision. 400 people left 6 villages. The police arrived, the Department of Economic Crimes. We demand documents from them, and they only take out a copy of the license. And where are everyone else, where is the project, expertise, conclusions? .. But no! Do you understand? They just fired them like a torpedo - "will it work - will it not work?" Their main goal is Ananyevsky-Vostochny 2. Behind the substation, the taiga, up to Targay, has already been cut, there are almost 70 million tons of layers.
- Then the journalists suggested to us a form of protest - to be, so to speak, "in trend", and not just go out and demand something there. And we started to come up with promotions. For example, we plant trees. The police are coming - what is it? And we plant trees. Or we launch colored fish into the quarry. So they drew attention to themselves. After all, this is a common misfortune in the south of Kuzbass. Contacts began to be established: with Gavrilovka (Stepanovsky open pit), with Mencherep, in the Belovsky district. They just had it like this: "There will be a cut! Give back your shares, we are buying them back! " Residents: "How is the cut?" They: "And that's it! We will lower the Belovskoye reservoir and dig it. " People: “We don’t want to!” And went to court. Then, in court, everything was decided, even in the bud, at the stage of redemption of shares. Although they found there a collaborationist one who sold shares and extolled that, they say, there will be a cut, good ... But we defended it through the courts. Lawyers from"Teams 29" , which are now announced as foreign agents.
In protest actions, in their success, everything depends 90% on the position of the locals. And not just sympathy, although it is also necessary - as Lenin said, "without attracting the masses to your side, there is nothing to talk about success." Actions are important. For example, in Gavrilovka, the dump was piled directly onto agricultural land. The director of the open pit said: "This is a temporary dump." Ha! A temporary dump is when the snow is removed and dumped somewhere until it melts. How can the dump be temporary? Then activists appeared at their place, contacted us, and together we decided that we were acting: we were stopping the construction of the dump, demanding that it be dismantled, taken away. 300 people quickly gathered and held a rally in Gavrilovka. But the locals said: “Everything suits us! The dump does not interfere with us. Moreover, they clean our roads, and that, and they do it ... Why did you decide to quarrel with us here? ”. A group of their activists also split: some decided to go to the end, seeking to eliminate the construction of the dump, which the cut did not tilt to their side. Others began to say: "... so and so, but let them do everything for us here, and then we will drive them away."
People's gathering in Gavrilovka, 2017. Photo
The same was on the Berezovskaya road - everything depended on the locals. We already looked ridiculous there: the same faces come out with posters and demand something there. So you need to look at the situation and apply the appropriate method. It was a good action then, they came out with a poster “Signal if against moving the road!”. I myself stood a couple of times, people drove by, honked. I gave a poster to the locals - they never even came out with it. And if I marry them all the time - the same person - people will think that either they are crazy, or they pay money for it.
I AM:
- That is, everyone seems to be against it, but let someone else protest and fight, he is a fine fellow, he will achieve everything, but they themselves are on the sidelines ... I also meet this in production.
S.Sh .:
- Yes exactly. And especially in a work environment.
Then they shared their experience of fighting in their workplaces. That is, on my part - what kind of struggle is this? So, I bark at the factory from time to time with the bosses and with colleagues I have conversations about unification, organization, collective struggle. Nobody listens to me. To which Sergey again noticed that it depends on the situation and its significance for the team: they can put up or that's all, it is impossible to tolerate further. And he gave an example from his work, when he worked as a driver of route number 58. When they overestimated the plan, setting an obviously impossible task and the dependence of wages on the plan, then they organized a trade union, and a route council, and even a leaflet was issued, “Route Bulletin”. The crooks of the Ministry of Justice never registered the trade union. The fact that there is only one route with its own drivers and management, and there are many bus owners working on it, also played against it.
Returning to the "coal business"
I AM:
- Do you feel support from other regions of Russia? Tell us about the tent for Shies.
S.Sh.
- It was like this: in the Far East, the group “Protect the Forests of Russia” was created. We reached them through whatsapp. Their coverage went great, not only eastern Siberia, but also the south of Kuzbass. Shies also entered this group. Even the actions were organized practically on the same day, which were organized through this group. We had an army tent for the occasion. In terms of mutual assistance, we sent it to the guys. But they ingloriously "profiled" her. Nevertheless, then they sent us an equivalent in exchange. As far as it became known, then 8 people were on duty at the site, in the camp. The police come and announce: “Come to the place, we will now describe your property, no one is going to do anything to anyone!”. But no, these 8 people were pulled into the forest. Well, it would be a partisan camp and doing something illegal. But then the police. I wouldn’t pay attention to all the violations, let them draw up a protocol. But they chose to just run away. And the police, without hesitation, demolished the camp: they buried it all and poured water over it. Valuable property, like chainsaws and the like, was described, the rest - into the pit.
I believe that it is unacceptable to act like this during a protest. Ever since the French Revolution, the slogan is the same: “Courage, courage and again courage” (Danton). It was about the same on Cheremza. Tent camp, performances ... And also: “The police will come now! What to do?" So what to do? Here are the police, and here are the violations. On the contrary, not to scatter, but to point out to the police the violations against which we stand here. There was one provocateur, she said: "Do you want the police to come and tie everyone up?" Yes, we do! So that the police see all the violations and fix them. And there is nothing to be afraid of. They even told people themselves: "That's it, this is your boundary, stay here."
They spoke, listened to speeches, and then the people began to disperse. "Where are you going?" - "Well, we are - home." That is, as? You have taken your foothold, and now you are leaving? That's all, these are your boundaries, come on, pitch tents, organize posts! You can't leave here now. And so, we started with one tent, then we set up a few more. And we achieved that there would be no loading here. But it was necessary to put pressure on, to fight against the cut. If they don’t do the loading here, they will do it elsewhere. And so it happened - the cut began its work. We began to grease ourselves, organize volleyball tournaments, organize children's parties.
Siberian Kandyk
Then Shorets Aleksey Chispiyakov and Vyacheslav Krechetov, a professional operator, were driving UAZ vehicles and filmed how an excavator was digging up kandyks (plants listed in the Red Book). They just filmed, commented, like you can't do that, kandyks are digging up, ruining nature. And it was necessary to immediately stop and call the same police. Let the matter not progress further, but the excavator will already be idle for some time without work, which means it will bring losses. What is the most painful place for a bourgeois? This is his pocket. And they filmed, grieved over these kandyks, came to the cars - and their wheels were also lowered. And the guard of the cut stands and laughs. Next time your boots will be taken away - will you go barefoot? So you need - if you are fighting - to go to the end, and use any little thing in the fight.
San Sanych:
- Tell us about the role of the parties that helped you. LDPR, KPRF, maybe Yabloko ...
S.Sh .:
- Real help, effective, was only from the RCWP. In terms of quantity, of course, it is small, but high quality (members of the ROT FRONT and RKWP participated in protest actions from start to finish, were always aware of the events, how they could support the protesters and continue to support - the author's note) .
The Liberal Democratic Party, represented by Tipitin and Birlyukov, directly said that politics is a business, you need to have some benefit from this (typical LDPR policy, and not only one of it - author's note) . Yes, at some stage - before the elections - there was help from them, in organizing rallies, for example. At that time, Birlyukov and Tipitin were deputies of the City Council, so they were solving the issue of the venue, equipment, etc.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation too - there are normal guys, they provided help, the same field round tables. For example, such a round table was organized directly on the hot site, on the road to Kostenkovo, right in the field. We see that one BelAZ got up, the second turned around and left. To have a round table - and deploy BelAZs - you have to try!
"Yabloko" too - its representatives, 5 people, took part in the action to defend the Kostenkovo road. And their lawyer was very helpful in the courts.
I AM.:
- And the last question. How do you see the future after defeating all these “cutters”? And is it possible without changing the social system?
S.Sh .:
- Of course, it is impossible without self-organization. We started - there was already some kind of self-organization. We started with the cemetery: why is it not put in order. This is how the village council was organized. Further, more, and now we have pulled ourselves together with the fight against the arbitrariness of the "cutters". The main thing is the self-organization of the population!
Vladimir Gorenkov
Then we got up and went to the hallway to meet: the second important participant in the events arrived - Vladimir Gorenkov . I turned off the recording. And for the better. It was about many things that I would not like to publish so far, so that the reader does not make hasty, and most importantly, wrong conclusions. First, of course, we talked about the "Kuznetsk partisans." As it turned out, a publishing house from Yekaterinburg became interested in the story; agreed to publish the book on paper. The guys have completed some chapters, worked on the bugs and are now waiting for the editorial answer. The output should be a work of fiction, but using documentary, with dates, names and events. The working title is "Kuznetsk Story".
It was decided to arrange the story in the form of an audiobook after the paper came out. If, of course, everything is in order, and the main protesters, Sergei and Vladimir, are alive and free. Such fears are not unfounded. The scenario of their "landing" in front of them has been revealed more than once. Sergei was attacked . Sergei's wife showed SMS messages that come from unknown numbers. They contain swearing, insults, threats, accusations of “payment”. But, like the heroes of their story, they are already accustomed to the conditions of the struggle, it has become their way of life.
“Someone is giving up,” says Sergei, “they are offering many to buy out plots for both 5 million and 10 million. Someone was simply given 400 thousand for non-participation, he bought a car, and now he is keeping quiet. People are sold for different things. We, since we decided to go to the end, so we will go. Moreover, the majority still support us. And since they are threatening us, beating us, it means that they are really afraid of us.
I don’t think I can reduce interest in the future book if I say that there will be neither a happy ending, nor a sad end. Events continue. What will be the result? Here, as in life, everyone has the opportunity to become the author and hero of a book called Struggle.
https://www.rotfront.su/ugol-ili-zhizn- ... go-protiv/
Sounds like struggles here, Canada, throughout the world. The commonality is capitalism.
