Последнее слово Надежды Толоконниковой #PussyRiot (08.08.2012)
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0:02 - 0:06By and large the current process is not about
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0:06 - 0:09the three singers in the group Pussy Riot
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0:09 - 0:14if that was the case then the proceedings here would be irrelevant
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0:14 - 0:19It is the entire state system of the Russian Federation which is on trial
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0:19 - 0:24and which, to its own detriment, takes such pleasure in inflicting cruelty on people
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0:24 - 0:27and indifference to human respect and dignity.
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0:27 - 0:31As bad as the very worst of Russian history.
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0:31 - 0:35The simulation of a court process comes close to the standards of Stalin's "troikas" [extrajudicial panels]
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0:35 - 0:38to my deep regret.
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0:38 - 0:40Thus, we have our investigator, lawyer and judge.
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0:40 - 0:44And then, what’s more, what all three of them do and say and decide
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0:44 - 0:49is determined by a political demand for repression.
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0:49 - 0:51Who is guilty for what happened during
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0:51 - 0:54the performance at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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0:54 - 0:57and the trial which followed our concert?
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0:57 - 1:00The authoritarian political system is guilty.
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1:00 - 1:03That which Pussy Riot does, is opposition art
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1:03 - 1:08or even politics, taking on forms developed by art.
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1:08 - 1:10In any case it is the kind of civil activity
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1:10 - 1:14under conditions of pressure from a corporate state system
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1:14 - 1:16on basic human rights
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1:16 - 1:19on civil and political freedoms.
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1:19 - 1:25Many people, who have been methodically robbed of their freedoms
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1:25 - 1:30are now rebelling.
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1:30 - 1:32We are looking for sincerity and simplicity
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1:32 - 1:35and we found both in our punk performances.
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1:35 - 1:46Passion, sincerity, and naivety are above hypocrisy, deceit, feigned modesty, and hiding your crime.
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1:46 - 1:51The country's top brass stand in cathedral with righteous faces
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1:51 - 1:54but they are sly, their sins are far greater than ours.
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1:54 - 1:58We do our political punk concerts because
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1:58 - 2:00the Russian state system is ruled by such
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2:00 - 2:03stiffness, opacity, and class
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2:03 - 2:07and policies are subject only to narrow corporate interests
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2:07 - 2:11so much so that Russian air makes us ill.
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2:11 - 2:14Against our wishes, we are made to act and live
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2:14 - 2:18with the politically coercive and violent techniques
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2:18 - 2:22to control social processes.
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2:22 - 2:25The situation, when the most important political institutions
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2:25 - 2:28are the state's disciplinary structures,
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2:28 - 2:32law enforcement, the army, the police, the security services
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2:32 - 2:35and the corresponding means for achieving political stability involve
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2:35 - 2:41prisons, preventive detention, mechanisms of strict control over the behaviour of citizens.
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2:41 - 2:47We also do not like the forced passivity of most of the civilian population
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2:47 - 2:51and also the complete domination of executive branch
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2:51 - 2:53over the legislature and judiciary.
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2:53 - 2:55In addition, we are sincerely annoyed
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2:55 - 2:59at the scandalously low level of political culture, built on fear
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2:59 - 3:03a level which consciously supports the state system and its cronies.
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3:03 - 3:05Just look at what Patriarch Kirill says
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3:05 - 3:07that Orthodox believers do not attend the demonstrations.
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3:07 - 3:11We are annoyed by the scandalous weakness
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3:11 - 3:14of community connections within society.
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3:14 - 3:18We do not like the state's manipulation of public opinion
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3:18 - 3:23easily carried out thanks to tight control over most media
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3:23 - 3:27by state agencies, and for example,
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3:27 - 3:33the exceptionally arrogant and base distortion of facts and words in the campaign against Pussy Riot,
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3:33 - 3:35launched in almost all Russian media,
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3:35 - 3:41except for independent ones, a rarity in this political system.
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3:41 - 3:45Nonetheless I now state that
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3:45 - 3:51even though this situation is authoritarian
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3:51 - 3:55and even though the political system is authoritarian
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3:55 - 4:02I still see the collapse of this political system
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4:02 - 4:07in its response to the three members of Pussy Riot
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4:07 - 4:10because that which the system depends on, was wrong.
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4:10 - 4:17Unfortunately for the system, Russia as a whole does not condemn us
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4:17 - 4:21and with every day more and more people believe us and believe in us
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4:21 - 4:24and think we should be free rather than behind bars.
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4:24 - 4:27I can see this from people I meet.
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4:27 - 4:35I meet people who represent the system, who work for the relevant agencies.
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4:35 - 4:43And every day there are more and more people who wish us well
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4:43 - 4:47who hope for our success and especially for our release
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4:47 - 4:50who say our political act was justified
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4:50 - 4:53More and more, people tell us
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4:53 - 4:58At first, we weren't sure you could have done this
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4:58 - 5:03but every day there are more and more people who say
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5:03 - 5:10Time is proving to us that your political gesture was correct.
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5:10 - 5:21You have exposed the cancer in this political system and dealt a blow to a nest of vipers, which then turned on you.
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5:21 - 5:27These people are trying to make life easier for us in whatever way they can
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5:27 - 5:29and we are very grateful to them for that
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5:29 - 5:33We are grateful to all those who, free themselves, speak out in our support.
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5:33 - 5:35There are a vast number, I know.
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5:35 - 5:39I know that a huge number of Orthodox people are standing up for us.
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5:39 - 5:44They are praying for us outside the courtroom
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5:44 - 5:48for the members of Pussy Riot who are incarcerated.
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5:48 - 5:54We’ve seen the booklets Orthodox people are handing out
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5:54 - 5:58with prayers for those in prison
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5:58 - 6:06This shows that there isn’t a unified social group of Orthodox believers
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6:06 - 6:09as the prosecution is claiming.
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6:09 - 6:11No such thing exists.
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6:11 - 6:17More and more believers are starting to defend Pussy Riot.
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6:17 - 6:25They don’t think what we did deserves even five months in detention
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6:25 - 6:32much less the three years in prison the prosecutor would like.
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6:32 - 6:35And every day, more and more people realize
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6:35 - 6:39that if this political system has ganged up to this extent against three girls
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6:39 - 6:43for a 30-second performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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6:43 - 6:47it means the system is afraid of the truth
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6:47 - 6:52and afraid of our sincerity and directness
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6:52 - 6:55We haven’t dissembled, not for a second
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6:55 - 6:59not for a minute during this trial
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6:59 - 7:03but the other side is dissembling too much and people can sense it.
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7:03 - 7:05People can sense the truth.
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7:05 - 7:10Truth really does have some kind of ontological, existential superiority over lies
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7:10 - 7:15and this is written in the Bible, in the Old Testament in particular.
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7:15 - 7:22In the end, the ways of truth always triumph over the ways of wickedness, guile and lies.
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7:22 - 7:26And with each day that passes,
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7:26 - 7:34the ways of truth are more and more triumphant
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7:34 - 7:37even though we are still behind bars
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7:37 - 7:39and are likely to be here a lot longer yet.
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7:39 - 7:41Madonna performed yesterday [7 August].
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7:41 - 7:46She appeared with Pussy Riot written on her back.
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7:46 - 7:49More and more people can see
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7:49 - 7:51that we are being held here unlawfully and on a completely false charge
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7:51 - 7:54I’m overwhelmed by this
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7:54 - 8:01I am overwhelmed that truth really does triumph over lies
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8:01 - 8:05even though physically we are here in a cage.
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8:05 - 8:07We are freer than the people sitting opposite us
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8:07 - 8:10for the prosecution because we can say everything we like
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8:10 - 8:16and we do, but those people sitting there say only what political censorship allows them to say.
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8:16 - 8:22They can’t speak words like “punk prayer” or "Virgin Mary, Banish Putin!”
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8:22 - 8:29They can’t say the lines from our punk prayer that have to do with the political system.
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8:29 - 8:34Perhaps they think it wouldn’t be a bad thing to send us to jail
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8:34 - 8:37because we are rising up against Putin and his system as well
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8:37 - 8:40but they can’t say so because that’s not allowed either.
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8:40 - 8:43Their mouths are sewn shut. Unfortunately, they are mere puppets.
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8:43 - 8:50I hope they realize this and also take the road to freedom, truth and sincerity
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8:50 - 8:59because these are superior to stasis, contrived decency and hypocrisy.
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8:59 - 9:06Stasis and the search for truth are always in opposition to one another
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9:06 - 9:09and in this case, at this trial,
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9:09 - 9:12we can see people who are trying to find the truth
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9:12 - 9:17and people who are trying to enslave those who want to find the truth.
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9:17 - 9:22Humans are beings who always make mistakes.
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9:22 - 9:25They are not perfect.
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9:25 - 9:28They strive for wisdom but never actually have it.
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9:28 - 9:31That’s precisely why philosophy came into being,
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9:31 - 9:35precisely because philosophers are people who love wisdom and strive for it,
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9:35 - 9:38but never actually possesses it
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9:38 - 9:43and it is what drives them to act and to think
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9:43 - 9:45and, ultimately, to live the way they do.
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9:45 - 9:49This is what made us go into the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour,
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9:49 - 10:01and I think that Christianity, as I’ve understood it from studying the Old and New Testaments,
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10:01 - 10:07supports the search for truth and a constant overcoming of the self,
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10:07 - 10:12overcoming what you used to be.
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10:12 - 10:17Christ didn’t associate with prostitutes for nothing.
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10:17 - 10:24He said, ‘I help those who have gone astray and forgive them’
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10:24 - 10:30but for some reason I can’t see any of that at our trial,
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10:30 - 10:32which is taking place under the banner of Christianity.
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10:32 - 10:38I think the prosecutor is defying Christianity.
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10:38 - 10:44The lawyer wants nothing to do with the injured parties.
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10:44 - 10:47Here’s how I understand this:
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10:47 - 10:50Two days ago, Lawyer Taratukhin made a speech
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10:50 - 11:00in which he wanted everyone to understand that he had no sympathy with the people he is representing.
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11:00 - 11:05This means he’s not ethically comfortable representing
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11:05 - 11:09people who want to send the three members of Pussy Riot to jail.
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11:09 - 11:12Why they want to do this, I don’t know.
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11:12 - 11:14Perhaps it is their right.
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11:14 - 11:19The lawyer was embarrassed
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11:19 - 11:25the shouts of “Shame! Executioners!” had got to him
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11:25 - 11:35which goes to show that truth and goodness always triumph over lies and evil.
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11:35 - 11:45I think some higher powers are guiding the speeches of the lawyers for the other side
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11:45 - 11:49when, time after time, they make mistakes in what they say
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11:49 - 11:53and call us the “injured parties”.
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11:53 - 11:56Almost all the lawyers are doing it,
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11:56 - 11:59including Lawyer Pavlova who is very negatively disposed towards us.
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11:59 - 12:02Nevertheless, some higher powers are causing her
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12:02 - 12:08to say "the injured parties" about us rather than the people she’s defending, us.
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12:08 - 12:10I wouldn’t give people labels.
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12:10 - 12:13I don’t think there are winners or losers here,
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12:13 - 12:16injured parties or accused.
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12:16 - 12:18We just need to make contact,
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12:18 - 12:20to establish a dialogue and a joint search for truth,
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12:20 - 12:23to seek wisdom together,
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12:23 - 12:25to be philosophers together,
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12:25 - 12:30rather than stigmatizing and labelling people.
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12:30 - 12:33This is one of the worst things people can do
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12:33 - 12:40and Christ condemned it.
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12:40 - 12:48We have been subjected to abuse during this trial.
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12:48 - 12:52Who would have thought that a person and the state system he controls
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12:52 - 12:56would be repeatedly capable of entirely wanton evil?
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12:56 - 13:02Who would have thought that history and particularly Stalin’s Great Terror
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13:02 - 13:05not so very long ago, would not be taught at all?
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13:05 - 13:09It makes you want to weep to see how the methods of the medieval inquisition are brought out
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13:09 - 13:15by the law-enforcement and judicial system of the Russian Federation, which is our country.
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13:15 - 13:19Since the time of our arrest, however, we are no longer able to weep.
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13:19 - 13:21We’ve forgotten how to cry.
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13:21 - 13:24At our punk concerts we used to shout as best we could
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13:24 - 13:32about the iniquities of the authorities and now we’ve been robbed of our voice.
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13:32 - 13:37This whole trial refuses to hear us
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13:37 - 13:40and I mean hear us
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13:40 - 13:43which involves understanding and, moreover, thinking.
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13:43 - 13:46I think every individual wants to attain wisdom, to be a philosopher
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13:46 - 13:49not just people who happen to have studied philosophy.
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13:49 - 13:56That’s nothing.
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13:56 - 13:58Formal education is nothing in itself
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13:58 - 14:04and Lawyer Pavlova is constantly accusing us of not being sufficiently well-educated.
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14:04 - 14:07I think though that the most important thing
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14:07 - 14:11is the desire to know and to understand,
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14:11 - 14:15and that’s something people can do for themselves
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14:15 - 14:17outside of educational establishments,
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14:17 - 14:21and the trappings of academic degrees don’t mean anything in this instance.
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14:21 - 14:28Someone can have a vast fund of knowledge
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14:28 - 14:33and for all that not be human.
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14:33 - 14:39Pythagoras said: ‘the learning of many things does not teach understanding’.
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14:39 - 14:44Unfortunately, that’s something we are forced to observe here.
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14:44 - 14:49It’s just a stage setting and bits of the natural world,
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14:49 - 14:51bodies brought into the courtroom.
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14:51 - 14:54If, after many days of asking, talking and doing battle
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14:54 - 14:57our petitions are examined, they are inevitably rejected.
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14:57 - 14:59The court, on the other hand
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14:59 - 15:01unfortunately for us and for our country
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15:01 - 15:06listens to the prosecutor who repeatedly distorts our comments and statements with impunity
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15:06 - 15:08in a bid to neutralize them.
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15:08 - 15:13There is no attempt to conceal this breach in an adversarial system.
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15:13 - 15:15It even appears to be for show.
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15:15 - 15:17On 30th July, the first day of the trial,
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15:17 - 15:20we presented our response to the accusations.
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15:20 - 15:24The document we wrote was read by defence lawyer Volkov
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15:24 - 15:28because the court categorically refused to let the defendants speak.
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15:28 - 15:34It was the first time in five months of imprisonment that we could communicate
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15:34 - 15:38Prior to that we were in prison, in confinement.
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15:38 - 15:41We can’t do anything there.
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15:41 - 15:44We can’t make statements. We can’t make films.
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15:44 - 15:46We don’t have the internet in there.
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15:46 - 15:49We can’t even give our lawyer a bit of paper because that’s banned too.
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15:49 - 15:53Our first chance to speak came on 30th July.
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15:53 - 15:56We called for contact and dialogue
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15:56 - 15:58rather than conflict and opposition.
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15:58 - 16:00We reached out a hand to those
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16:00 - 16:02who, for some reason, assume we are their enemies.
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16:02 - 16:05In response they laughed at us
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16:05 - 16:07and spat in our outstretched hands.
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16:07 - 16:10You’re disingenuous, they told us.
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16:10 - 16:13But they needn’t have bothered.
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16:13 - 16:16Don’t judge others by your own standards.
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16:16 - 16:20We were always sincere in what we said,
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16:20 - 16:22saying exactly what we thought,
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16:22 - 16:25out of childish naïvety,
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16:25 - 16:27sure, but we don’t regret anything we said,
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16:27 - 16:29even on that day.
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16:29 - 16:32We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return.
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16:32 - 16:35We are in desperate straits but do not despair.
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16:35 - 16:38We are persecuted but not forsaken.
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16:38 - 16:39It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open,
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16:39 - 16:41but when I am weak, then I am strong.
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16:41 - 16:44Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us.
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16:44 - 16:46Don’t twist and distort everything we say.
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16:46 - 16:48Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country,
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16:48 - 16:52which is ours too, not just Putin’s and the Patriarch’s.
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16:52 - 16:58Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete.
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16:58 - 17:06Solzhenitsyn wrote, “the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles.
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17:06 - 17:12Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete.”
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17:12 - 17:15Katya, Masha and I are in jail
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17:15 - 17:19but I don’t consider that we’ve been defeated.
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17:19 - 17:22Just as the dissidents weren’t defeated.
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17:22 - 17:25When they disappeared into psychiatric hospitals and prisons,
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17:25 - 17:29they passed judgement on the country.
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17:29 - 17:33The era’s art of creating an image knew no winners or losers.
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17:33 - 17:39The Oberiu poets remained artists to the very end,
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17:39 - 17:44something impossible to explain or understand
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17:44 - 17:48since they were purged in 1937.
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17:48 - 17:54Vvedensky wrote: "We like what can’t be understood, What can’t be explained is our friend."
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17:54 - 18:00According to the official report, Aleksandr Vvedensky died on 20 December 1941.
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18:00 - 18:03We don’t know the cause,
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18:03 - 18:06whether it was dysentery in the train after his arrest
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18:06 - 18:08or a bullet from a guard.
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18:08 - 18:11It was somewhere on the railway line between Voronezh and Kazan.
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18:11 - 18:14Pussy Riot are Vvedensky’s disciples and his heirs.
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18:14 - 18:16His principle of ‘bad rhythm’ is our own.
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18:16 - 18:20He wrote: "It happens that two rhythms will come into your head,"
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18:20 - 18:22a good one and a bad one and I choose the bad one.
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18:22 - 18:25It will be the right one.
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18:25 - 18:27What can’t be explained is our friend.
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18:27 - 18:30The elitist, sophisticated occupations of the Oberiu poets,
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18:30 - 18:32their search for meaning on the edge of sense
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18:32 - 18:35was ultimately realized at the cost of their lives,
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18:35 - 18:39swept away in the senseless Great Terror
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18:39 - 18:42something impossible to explain.
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18:42 - 18:46At the cost of their own lives
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18:46 - 18:49the Oberiu poets unintentionally demonstrated
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18:49 - 18:50that the feeling of meaninglessness and analogy,
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18:50 - 18:53like a pain in the backside, was correct,
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18:53 - 18:55but at the same time led art into the realm of history.
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18:55 - 18:57The cost of taking part in creating history
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18:57 - 19:00is always staggeringly high for people.
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19:00 - 19:06But that taking part is the very spice of human life.
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19:06 - 19:09Being poor while bestowing riches on many,
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19:09 - 19:11having nothing but possessing everything.
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19:11 - 19:14It is believed that the OBERIU dissidents are dead,
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19:14 - 19:17but they live on.
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19:17 - 19:19They are persecuted but they do not die.
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19:19 - 19:23Do you remember why the young Dostoyevsky was given the death sentence?
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19:23 - 19:28All he had done was to spend all his time with Socialists
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19:28 - 19:31and at the Friday meetings of a friendly circle of free thinkers at Petrushevsky’s
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19:31 - 19:36he became acquainted with Charles Fourier and George Sand.
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19:36 - 19:41At one of the last meetings, he read out Gogol’s letter to Belinsky,
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19:41 - 19:44which was packed, according to the court,
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19:44 - 19:52and I note, with childish expressions against the Orthodox Church and the supreme authorities.
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19:52 - 19:57After all his preparations for the death penalty
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19:57 - 20:02and ten dreadful, as he put it, "impossibly frightening minutes waiting to die"
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20:02 - 20:04the announcement came that his sentence had been commuted
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20:04 - 20:09to four years hard labour followed by military service.
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20:09 - 20:12Socrates was accused of corrupting youth
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20:12 - 20:15through his philosophical discourses
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20:15 - 20:18and of not recognizing the gods of Athens.
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20:18 - 20:21Socrates had a connection to a divine inner voice
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20:21 - 20:25and was by no means a theomachist,
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20:25 - 20:27something he often said himself.
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20:27 - 20:30What did that matter, however, when he had angered the city
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20:30 - 20:36with his critical, dialectical and unprejudiced thinking?
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20:36 - 20:44Socrates was sentenced to death and, refusing to run away
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20:44 - 20:46although he was given that option,
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20:46 - 20:53he drank down a cup of poison in cold blood, hemlock.
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20:53 - 20:56Have you forgotten the circumstances under which
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20:56 - 21:03Stephen, follower of the Apostles, ended his earthly life?
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21:03 - 21:06"Then they secretly induced men to say:
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21:06 - 21:09'We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.'
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21:09 - 21:11And they stirred up the people, the elders and the scribes,
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21:11 - 21:16and they came upon him and dragged him away, and brought him before the Council.
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21:16 - 21:18And they put forward false witnesses who said
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21:18 - 21:22'This man incessantly speaks against this holy place, and the Law.' "
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21:22 - 21:26He was found guilty and stoned to death.
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21:26 - 21:29And I hope everyone remembers what the Jews said to Jesus:
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21:29 - 21:34We're stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy.
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21:34 - 21:37And finally it would be well worth remembering this description of Christ:
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21:37 - 21:42He is possessed of a demon and out of his mind.
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21:42 - 21:50I believe that if leaders, tsars, elders, presidents and prime ministers, the people and the judges
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21:50 - 21:54really understood what "I desire mercy not sacrifice" meant,
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21:54 - 21:57they would not condemn the innocent.
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21:57 - 22:02Our leaders are currently in a hurry only to condemn
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22:02 - 22:05and not at all to show mercy.
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22:05 - 22:09Incidentally, we thank Dmitry Medvedev for his latest wonderful aphorism.
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22:09 - 22:14If Medvedev gave his presidency the slogan: "Freedom is better than non-freedom"
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22:14 - 22:16then, thanks to Medvedev’s felicitous saying,
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22:16 - 22:22Putin’s third term has a good chance of being known by a new aphorism:
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22:22 - 22:27Prison is better than stoning
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22:27 - 22:31I would like you to think carefully
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22:31 - 22:35about the following reflection by Montaigne
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22:35 - 22:37from his Essays written in the 16th century.
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22:37 - 22:44He wrote: "You are holding your opinions in too high a regard if you burn people alive for them."
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22:44 - 22:47Is it worth accusing people and putting them in jail
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22:47 - 22:52on the basis of totally unfounded conjectures by the prosecution?
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22:52 - 22:55Since in actual fact we never were,
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22:55 - 22:59and are not, motivated by religious hatred and hostility,
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22:59 - 23:02there is nothing left for our accusers
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23:02 - 23:04other than to draw on the aid of false witnesses.
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23:04 - 23:06One of them, Motilda Ivashchenko,
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23:06 - 23:09was ashamed and didn’t show up in court.
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23:09 - 23:11That left the false witness of the expert examination
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23:11 - 23:13by [Vsevolod] Troitsky, [Igor] Ponkin and Mrs [Vera] Abramenkova.
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23:13 - 23:16And there is no evidence of any hatred or enmity on our part
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23:16 - 23:19other than this expert examination.
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23:19 - 23:21For this reason, if it is honourable and just,
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23:21 - 23:25the court must rule the evidence inadmissible
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23:25 - 23:27because it is not a strictly scientific or objective text
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23:27 - 23:30but a filthy, lying bit of paper
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23:30 - 23:35from the medieval days of the inquisition.
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23:35 - 23:39There is no other evidence that remotely hints at a motive.
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23:39 - 23:43The prosecution is reluctant to produce excerpts from the text of Pussy Riot interviews
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23:43 - 23:49because they are primary evidence of this lack of motive.
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23:49 - 23:53For the umpteenth time, I will quote this excerpt.
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23:53 - 23:57I think it’s important. It was from an interview with Russky Reporter
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23:57 - 24:01given the day after the concert at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
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24:01 - 24:05Our attitude toward religion, and toward Orthodoxy in particular
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24:05 - 24:08is one of respect, and for this very reason we are distressed
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24:08 - 24:11that the great and luminous Christian philosophy is being used so shabbily.
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24:11 - 24:16We are very angry that something beautiful is being spoiled.
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24:16 - 24:24It still makes us angry and we find it very painful to watch.
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24:24 - 24:30The lack on our part of any show of hatred or enmity
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24:30 - 24:34has been attested by all the witnesses examined by the defence.
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24:34 - 24:37And by the evidence of our characters.
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24:37 - 24:40In addition to all the other character statements,
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24:40 - 24:44I’d like you to consider the findings of the psychiatric and psychological tests
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24:44 - 24:47which the investigator ordered me to undergo in detention.
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24:47 - 24:49The expert’s findings were as follows:
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24:49 - 24:51the values to which I am committed in my life are
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24:51 - 24:57justice, mutual respect, humanity, equality and freedom.
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24:57 - 25:03That’s what the expert said, someone who doesn’t know me
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25:03 - 25:06and Investigator Ranchenko would probably
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25:06 - 25:11have very much liked him to write something different.
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25:11 - 25:18It would appear, however, that there are more people who live and value the truth
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25:18 - 25:23and the Bible’s right about that.
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25:23 - 25:31Finally, I’d like to quote a Pussy Riot song
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25:31 - 25:34because, strange as it may seem
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25:34 - 25:36all our songs have turned out to be prophetic
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25:36 - 25:39including the one that says:
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25:39 - 25:44The KGB chief, their number one saint, will escort protestors off to jail – that’s us.
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25:44 - 25:49What I’d like to quote now, however, is the next line:
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25:49 - 25:57Open the doors, off with the shoulder-straps, join us in a taste of freedom.
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25:57 - 25:59That's it.
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25:59 -[Applause]
- Title:
- Последнее слово Надежды Толоконниковой #PussyRiot (08.08.2012)
- Description:
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Последнее слово обвиняемой Надежды Толоконниковой в процессе над Pussy Riot в хамовническом суде.
Обвинение просило суд о 3х годах колонии. Оглашение приговора назначено на 17 августа 2012г.исходник: http://ria.ru/tv_society/#tv_society/719116883
текстовая трансляция 8-го дня судилища: http://www.novayagazeta.ru/news/58826.html
- Video Language:
- English, British
- Duration:
- 26:05