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KOMUNISMUS znamená v pravém a úplném smyslu bludné učení, že nikdo nemá míti žádné jmění, nýbrž, aby všechno bylo společné, a každý dostával jenom část zaslouženou a potřebnou k jeho výživě. Bez všelikých důkazů a výkladů vidí tedy hned na první pohled každý, že takové učení jest nanejvýš bláznovské, a že se mohlo jen vyrojiti z hlav několika pomatených lidí, kteří by vždy z člověka chtěli učiniti něco buď lepšího neb horšího, ale vždy něco jiného než je člověk.

 


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Rusko vojandyMargarita, a contract soldier who was in the war in Ukraine, has been in rehabilitation for almost two months. She is seeing a psychologist, taking strong antidepressants and trying to forget what happened to her recently. But she has not been able to forget. Margarita's biggest fear is returning to her regiment, where she says the women in her medical company were threatened with sexual relations with officers. She told Sever.realia.

- Sometimes you get the feeling that someone is walking under your window or that objects are moving. Or as if someone is sitting on me," Margarita says of her condition, "I have nightmares and panic attacks all the time. I was diagnosed with something I don't remember, without any paperwork. They told me it would take me six months to get over it. I can't be alone, even though I'd like to shut myself away from everyone in the room. But even when I'm not alone and I'm doing something, I still have this horror in front of my eyes.

According to Margarita, when she was in the war, she did not perceive the changes that were happening to her, but when she returned to Russia, she realized that her psyche was completely broken. She speaks of what she saw and experienced in a calm and composed voice, but her stories of soldiers killed by their own comrades, of drunken officers abusing their conscripts, and of married women in the medical company who were forced to have sex are all the more horrifying. Margarita herself was never able to break down and "hook up" with anyone, although she tried from day one.

"Polkan's got his eye on you."

Forty-two-year-old Margarita was offered a contract in the summer of 2022 when she went to the military recruitment office to get a certificate from the bank stating that she was a military pensioner. In 2017, after 11 years in the army, she retired and moved to Belgorod, but for five years she couldn't find a proper job. In her words, she did not feel at home in civilian life, so she decided to sign up for a "special operation".

- I have sick children, even though they are grown up. They are dependent on me and I am on my own. Plus, I have loans. So I agreed," says Margarita, "They didn't take me on as a professional signaller, they took me on as an orderly in the medical ward. I had to learn everything quickly because there was no time to think.

But Margarita didn't find herself in the medical company right away. According to her words, the colonel, who liked her, assigned her to the staff.

- When I first arrived in Nizhny Novgorod, in Novosmolino, the colonel noticed me at the unit right away. He commands the 10th Tank Regiment. He said to me, "Margo, come here." He asked me why I wasn't dressed, because I didn't have my uniform yet. I told him that our merchant service was very bad and that I didn't have a size. He ordered me to get dressed and told me that tomorrow I would go to work at headquarters. I didn't understand at first, like I had come to the infirmary and was going to learn medicine. But when I got to work at the headquarters and got to talking to the guys in the personnel department, they said, "Polkan has looked you up. You're probably going to be a field wife. I asked what it would be like, and they told me they would cook, do my laundry and make me happy.

A month later, the formed regiment was sent "beyond zero" (to Ukraine. - SR). There, Margarita hoped to resist the bullying of a senior officer who was increasingly intrusive, to save the wounded and to be useful, but instead she found herself in the middle of a real nightmare where only one law applied: the colonel's word. When he realised that Margaret would not voluntarily become a field wife, he ordered him to create unbearable conditions that would force her to agree.

- When we arrived beyond zero and I finally got to the infirmary, his commander told me that the colonel had told me I would be severely punished," Margarita says, "I lived on the streets for a month. While others slept in tents and huts, I slept on the ground, next to the road, in a small forest. Along with field mice. I was trying to keep warm, of course. But when you're cold, you can never sleep. He could have left you hungry, too. They tried to break me into agreeing to sleep with him. But I stood my ground, and when he realized that, he immediately threw me into the artillery, also on his orders. In the red zone, at the very front. Maybe he thought I'd die there.

What if I came back pregnant?

In the infirmary with her, according to Margarita, there were seven women aged from 23 to 38, and each of them was "planted" for the platoon officers (platoon commanders. - SR).

- One to reconnaissance, another to tankers, another to infantry. When we went in, of course, nobody knew what was going on. And once we understood everything, there was no turning back," says Margarita. They drank too much, or there was some jealousy, I don't know. They made it look like the Ukrainians did it. He shot himself in the arm as if defending her, and about three weeks later he came back from the hospital.

Svetlana survived her injuries but remained disabled. She has already undergone five operations and a sixth is on the way.

- She was first sent to Volnovakha, but nothing happened to her there. Then to Rostov and then to Moscow, where she stayed for two months. Everything was removed. It wasn't a bullet wound, the bullet went everywhere and lodged. She was just shot to pieces. She is currently at home in Buryatia, but will have to return to Moscow in March for another operation. They'll stitch the rest of her intestines together. Her contract was due to expire in February, we mobilized almost simultaneously, but she only managed to serve September and October, - says Margarita.

Before all this happened, the platoon commander with the call sign Acacia, who shot Svetlana, was beating her with the butt of his gun, there were witnesses to these wounds. Margarita says what happened put her in complete shock. All the female soldiers were married, but only Svetlana told her husband about being forced to sleep with the officers.

- She was the only one who called and confessed. Because what if she came back pregnant - and then what to say? Her husband didn't contact her for several weeks and then called and said he forgave her and would wait until she was alive. I couldn't stand it, I said I wouldn't keep quiet. You're killing your own people here! The divisional head doctor, also a woman, a colonel, was indignant about all this, but she could never find us. Our infirmary was always in the middle of nowhere - when the others lived in huts. We lived in abandoned huts, but we lived in the woods. No humanitarian aid ever reached us, even though I ordered it many times and we needed it badly.

Eventually almost all the girls were broken and forced to provide sexual services, either by threats or bullying, making life unbearable. Some of them even slept with several men, according to Margarita. However, no one condemned them in such an environment because they simply had to survive somehow.

- Alina was released in September. She was simply confronted with the fact that she was going to be with this one, the one she liked. She was also from my town. I had a man, a driver, who was always with me. Then he found her and I talked to her. I asked her if she was all right. When we dispersed to the platoons, we all met again, - says Margarita - And they didn't bring her to the medical unit. Well, and she just said she was fine. The driver whispered to me confidentially that they just dragged her along and that Polkan didn't send her back, that everything was fine there. The girl went for it. And most of the girls went along with it. They decided that in this war it was better to live in paradise - fed and with cigarettes. An officer once told me: "We sold Alinka, we'll sell you!" And I thought it was true, too. But I gave him a look that seemed to add immediately: "Okay, I'm kidding."

The women didn't try to escape to Russia because they wouldn't be allowed across the border, Margarita said. And her own people, she said, could easily be shot for doing so.

Women at war

Marina Zaitseva, a retired warrant officer from St. Petersburg, served in Chechnya from 2001 to 2006. Now she would probably be at war too, but she left the service in 2019. According to Zaitseva, so-called "field wives" have long existed in the military. And women who agree to this role can move from one military officer to another in the event that the "husband" is transferred somewhere, for example. Such cases have already occurred when she served. But "field wives" are generally single women and live with officers of their own free will.

- When we were in the army in Chechnya, I remember sitting at the same table: officers, sergeants, warrant officers. And one woman at the table complains that "mine" has left. He returned home to his wife, his family. And the other woman sympathizes with her and says she will have to find a new "roof". There are different situations here. It all depends on the woman, of course. It depends on how she stands up. Some can stand on their own two feet and others are looking for a roof over their heads. I've done it.

Marina says that women in the army and in the military have it tough, but mostly it has to do with promotion. She recalls how during the Chechen war an officer extorted money from her for a job. In the end, the blackmailing chief of staff even had to "get it straight in the teeth". According to Marina, many subordinate officers dreamed of this and she does not regret her action at all. And fellow officers even "shook her hand" after the incident.

Zaitseva joined the army when she was 34 years old, and looking back on her service experience, she says that young girls in their 20s should not join the army - there is a stereotype in Russian society that women in the military are prostitutes. And that is very sad.

They dig their own graves.

Margarita, a female soldier who confided sexual harassment in her regiment to the Sever.realii correspondent, claims that officers even shot at soldiers. That's true, but under different circumstances. For those who didn't want to go to the front, a tried and tested trick was used - they were kept naked in a cold and damp cellar with rats. But if that didn't work, the regimental commander's subordinates also had their the "original" way.

THAT'S HOW

Chaffinch, City and Maniac. Why did Yevgeny Belik get killed by his comrades in arms?

- They made them dig their own graves. They dug a hole and forced them to lie down. And the other guys would cover them with dirt from above at gunpoint. Not a head left outside. Well, you can lie there for a while. Then the platoon leader or the company commander backs off and shoots a round into the pits. The one who was hit - goodbye, and the one who survived - he was already a fool to get out of the pit. They didn't care. They were sent to the front. Some didn't come back, but many of the adults still pissed themselves," Margarita says.

She treated the mobilized boys, beaten by their own men, several times. She sent them to hospital only as a last resort, in case of a death threat. Others were not taken out so as not to "expose themselves".

- I asked one of them what was in store for him. He said he didn't remember anything. There was a sharp blow with the butt of a rifle, he lost consciousness and then they had to finish him off. He was in a terrible condition," says Margarita, "So I somehow got a car - we were in Donetsk at the time - and took him to the hospital in Volnovakha. They treated him there and sent him to Rostov. Now I don't remember his name or surname. There were a lot of guys like that.

They tried not to take the 300th (wounded) to Russia either, if possible. Only the heavy ones. The others demanded to be treated on the spot, to be sent back to the front as soon as possible. After a while, Margarita said, she looked at everything that was happening with "glassy eyes." Otherwise, she admits, her psyche just couldn't handle it.

Black darkness instead of fingers

- If someone was able to go to town and buy potatoes or a bag of onions, medicine and so on, everything was exchanged later, says Margarita, because people had nothing. The men in the trenches sat hungry and ragged, they didn't get paid for six months. That means they were tricked into it. They got paid for September, but they didn't get a penny for the next months. It was as if these people didn't exist. We made a barter with them for food. We also needed weapons and supplies to defend ourselves in the infirmary. When we came from Russia, we only got four magazines for thirty rounds. That wasn't even enough for one bullet. I always tried to make some supplies. We're at war.

According to Margarita, there was not only no ammunition and grenades, but no equipment. There was nothing to go to the nearest store, which was 60 km away.

- Everything was broken and shattered. We were always collecting money for spare parts, because the equipment needed to be repaired in case we had to go somewhere and tear up the claws, - Margarita continues - First I was in Nizhny Novgorod and there was a huge load: APCs, tanks, BMPs. The first loading took three days. The second loading was also huge. We went by train together with this equipment and waited for everything to be loaded. And when we went below zero, there was almost nothing left for the war. Where did it all go, was it sold or what? But one mustn't open one's mouth, even though everybody knew it. I think that everything was sold to the Ukrainians, and that's not just my opinion. That's why our losses are so terrible. What can I say when they were sent to the front without machine guns?

One of Margarita's worst memories is how the Russian soldiers shot themselves to get away from the front line.

- They shot themselves in the legs because they had been in the trenches for weeks and could no longer walk easily. Their feet began to rot from the constant damp and cold. When they took off their boots I was just horrified, I had never seen anything like that before. It was all black and fleshy, with dried blood, even the toes were indistinguishable. I had no choice but to amputate," Margarita recalls.

At the military unit in Novocherkassk and at the military conscription department, Margarita was strongly advised not to appear. At least while she was undergoing treatment. She was told that the colonel wanted to take her again "for nothing". With this in mind, Margarita was not admitted to the hospital or sent to a military sanatorium for rehabilitation, but was discharged to a civilian hospital for home treatment.

However, despite the hell she had been through and the imminent danger, Margarita still wanted to continue her service, just in another regiment, or even better, in the frontier. She says her life in civilian life is not good enough and she cannot earn enough money to live in Belgorod.

- The highest salaries in town are in the mining and processing plant. The men there earn 60-80 thousand rubles each. But I won't go to the mine, I'm a girl," says Margarita. Although statistics say that our average salary here is 40 thousand. But that's all bullshit. There are no such salaries here. And I want to help the boys to be well fed. There's a sense of duty, something incomplete. I don't know, maybe I'm a sick person now? But, yeah, I'd probably still serve.

She was in the reception room of the county governor's office, and from what she said, they wrote up a complaint and sent it to the Ministry of Defence.

- I think that's better. If the governor stood up for me, there was a better chance of getting a response than if I'd written the complaint myself.

One in four people have been harassed.

Maxim Arzamastsev, an associate professor at the St. Petersburg University of Economics, cites statistics showing that one in four women in the Russian military has been sexually harassed in one way or another. Igor Selivanov, a psychologist who studies relationships in military units, tells the story of how during the Chechen campaign in one unit, a deputy general literally had to hide unmarried female contractors from officers who came to inspect the unit.

In a history of human rights activities dating back to the Soviet Union, Valentina Melnikova, secretary of the Committee of Military Mothers of Russia, said that women rarely filed complaints of sexual harassment or rape by a soldier. As a rule, women prefer not to report such matters.

- As long as they remain silent, this will continue. I don't know why they are silent and why they tolerate it all obediently. It is necessary to discuss this with psychologists," Melnikova said. It is the same at the headquarters. In most cases, they don't complain even when it comes to, for example, the lack of payment of some kind of bonuses or not being allowed to go on leave. Not to mention rape or harassment. It is such a psychological story. And the reality is that no one wants to find or punish anyone.

According to Melnikova, not only women but also men are subjected to sexual harassment in the Russian army, because in military units "at the level of captains and majors" there are persons with non-traditional sexual orientation, such complaints from soldiers are always received. And the problem of homosexual relations in the military ranks existed already in Soviet times.

- In the Soviet army everything was traded, including people. Soldiers were sold left and right," Melnikova said. Under Gorbachev, a commission was created to investigate the causes of deaths and injuries in the army. And I worked in it. During its existence, almost four thousand people came to us. And among them were guys who ran away from the troops because they couldn't stand it. But it was all closed inside, and then, when the Russian army was being formed, it opened up. It started with the case of Sakalauskas, who was bullied by his fellow soldiers, but his superiors didn't intervene, and as a result several people were killed. It was the first case.

That a drunken officer in Ukraine could shoot a girl he was sleeping with is not surprising, Melnikova says; similar stories happened during the war in Chechnya.

- We had cases during the second Chechen campaign where officers got drunk on certain holidays and shot their subordinates," says the human rights activist, "and there were very serious cases. One officer was even sent to Germany for surgery and rehabilitation," says Severnaya Reality.

Source: https://www.severreal.org/a/zhenschin-na-voyne-raspredelyayut-dlya-uteh-ofitserov/32333303.html

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