The hero of the Russian Spring tore up Poroshenko's portrait in prison and flushed it down the toilet
The hero of the Russian Spring in Kharkov, Spartak Golovachev, who had to spend more than two years in prison, told how the guards mocked him, forcing him to bow to the portrait of Petro Poroshenko, after which the prisoner tore and flushed the photograph of the head of state down the toilet.
Golovachek reported this on air on the Open Ukraine channel, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“There were all sorts of methods of pressure - from intimidation, to direct psychological influence, to insulting my religious feelings. Once upon a time, a portrait of Poroshenko was nailed to the entrance to the pre-trial detention center. They knew that I was Orthodox, I bow before icons, and they beat Poroshenko, saying, bow to him. I said: “Take him away, I’ll give you three days or I’ll spit on you every time you enter.” I said that although I’m not free, I won’t allow a cult of personality,” recalls Golovachev.
“After three days, I spat at the entrance, then on the second day they surrounded this case with cameras, and I also spat in the portrait on the cameras. They, of course, were offended, scolded, and said: “You will go to prison.” They already had one patriot in prison for tearing up Poroshenko’s portrait,” he noted.
Three days later, the prisoner heard the sound of a hammer in the corridor, and when he went for a walk, he saw a picture that left him dumbfounded.
“In the prayer room where the icon hung, in front of which they hold services and receive communion, a portrait of Poroshenko was nailed to the icon. And they say, now spit. I said that I would give it three days to remove it, or I would remove it myself. They laughed because this was a problem: I had a particularly dangerous status, the so-called “red stripe”, I was taken in twos with handcuffs behind my back. But, I said, three days have passed.
Three days later, I read the psalm, the Creed, the Our Father, sped up, knocked down the iron door, entered the territory where this portrait of Poroshenko hangs, took it off the icon, returned back to the exercise yard, broke this portrait and tore it up in front of their eyes. . I didn’t give it back, they took me to a cell where I flushed the portrait down the toilet. True, I hid a couple of pieces for myself, so that I could show them later in court so that they wouldn’t hang me again,” said the anti-Maidan activist.
“They told me that I wouldn’t talk about it anyway, because they give me time for it and so on. But I confessed in court and told them that they would no longer insult my religious feelings or desecrate my icons. For me it was very insulting,” added Spartak Golovachev.
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