Google translation of a statement on the Nazi attack on an LGBT center in St. Petersberg today. Original at link. Now we are all shocked by the Nazi attack on our colleagues and friends of activism - Dima Chizhevskogo and Anya Prutskova . Dima: I was hospitalized , a bullet was left inside will do the surgery. Said that a good chance that the eye no longer sees . As before - it will not be , but at least try to do something : ( Anya : In my just fired traumatic . s office LaSky broke two masked with a bat and a gun. Dime Chizhevsky a black eye , I hurt my back. them I was the first talked when asked who they were - said they are looking for a friend . We think this is revenge for yesterdays March against hatred . in homophobic groups had information that tonight is wait for news . Again, as the attack on the Moscow club , and after - the brutal murder of Vlad Tornovogo the Internet splash activity. Recently we were with Anna at the LGBT festival in Turku ( Finland) , yesterday - on the march against hate. recently just spent three days at the festival in Turku ( Finland) . Anya smiled as for its recognition , long remembered . Anya wrote .. Thats about the festival : it must be said that the Finnish shares are different from our own, domestic . When we arrived at the venue , there were the banner Human rights are my pride , people , candles , tea. there was not: Natsik , riot police cordoned off the area , universal voltage . reflexively every time I looked around in search of the enemy, then remembered that I was in Finland and calm down . weird sensation . to good to quickly get used to it ... a month ago I was in Kiev on safety training for activists . s why I want to focus on two things: 1 ) Safety . All games are over . Through controlled media promoted hatred flywheel , is fire. Quantity temporary always becomes value . Corruption - in a fire. History is inexorable : the gas chambers of Auschwitz would not be without Goebbels propaganda , without several years of anti-Semitic cheating . In modern Russian conditions - must (! ) Each (!) To think about safety. There should not be frivolous , in fact, criminal negligence . Life and Health - the most precious thing we have. Safety plan with an estimate of the main threats and risks , and crisis management algorithms for action - should be for everyone , and you need to think about the means of self-defense, and the physical shape possible , training in self-defense . Otherwise - will be a trouble . A lot of trouble ... Lets organize something , get new information to improve safety. This is important . You can not let down on the brakes . 2) Do not get to sit tight . If anyone expects to sit out in gay clubs and at private parties , to go into hiding - it does not guarantee safety , as shown by the event. And on the contrary : Silence = Death, and its not a nice slogan, but a fact of life. My 1.5 years experience shows - that actions - much safer than at night in the alley . The shares can hit the sly, or pull out poster. In the doorway , porch or indoors - can kill or make a cripple for life . If you do not fight the hatred , and stand aside - will be worse , a lot worse. For, with the tacit consent of the vile deeds committed the most heinous crimes and when not feeling the resistance and condemnation - the criminals to inflame animal cruelty . Again and again I ask myself, and I do not find an answer : Why on Saturday for the March against hatred was only 300 people ? In St. Petersburg - Leningrad, where half the town - destroyed by frost and died of starvation during the siege . In a town with a population of pyatimilionnym . I have no right to judge or blame someone , each in their own setting priorities , Saturday morning , I want to get some sleep - and a thousand reasons and circumstances do not go. But I note : while we will go three people - the situation will not change. Closed yesterday the words of Alexander Kobrin , a member of Apple about the March against hatred Now there was a situation in the country when or may not be at this meeting was the fact that not only political position , but the fact of conscience. Because exacerbation of ethnic, religious or ethnic hatred, hatred for the people who are dissimilar in appearance - this degree has grown so much that if now silent , and if we do not go out, do not demonstrate that there are people who do not agree and are willing to resist it , then you can just give the country the Nazis . Thats why Im here - to a country they did not get . I would say the majority of our citizens, who sit at home and read that there - was killed here - beat there - burned and so forth : behold, while you sit at home, will be that of the Strugatsky - if the country celebrates mediocrity , came to power black . I ask all the people to realize that the position of each is now more important than ever . Alexei Sergeev (https://facebook/profile.php?id=100000723188052&ref=tn_tnmn) cc: John Aravosis Noah Michelson Joe Jervis Andy Towle John Becker
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:00:45 +0000
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