Masha Kolyada: When there is a common external enemy, our internal Russian squabbles do not matter
Moscow - Kiev, October 3 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - 23-year-old former National Bolshevik Maria Koleda, scandalously detained in Nikolaev on April 8 on suspicion of espionage and sabotage activities, was recently exchanged for Ukrainian prisoners near Donetsk and returned to Russia. In an interview with MK, she told what metamorphoses happened to her in the Kiev pre-trial detention center.
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According to Masha, who lost almost half of her weight in prison, she was beaten not only by 40-year-old men during interrogations at the SBU, but also by fellow inmates who, having nothing better to do, have been watching Ukrainian television for years, consisting of a mixture of rabid Russophobic propaganda with women’s TV series. They are so brainwashed by this that the thieves become fans of the Right Sector. But Masha did not break, although she had to go through a lot.
“If someone had told me a year ago that I would stand up to Putin’s defense, I would have laughed in his face,” she says. - But there, in Kiev pre-trial detention center No. 13 - it’s difficult to explain - they went together, in a bunch, Russia and Putin. Putin and Russia."
“When there is a common external enemy, our internal Russian squabbles do not matter,” continues Kolyada. – And if you intellectually reflect, the middle is half and half, you will simply be ground into powder.
I saw people with the inscription “SEPR” - “separatist” burned with a soldering iron on their chests, with broken arms, with legs on which there was a mark from hot rods. Such life experiences greatly change one's worldview. You begin to feel differently about your own country and its politics. On the second day of my stay behind bars, I wrote my will. To be honest, I didn’t think I would survive. They hate Russians there. And in general they hate everyone. Even our own. A 50-year-old Ukrainian woman, Ira Poltoratskaya, tied hand and foot, with a bag on her head, was transported in a trunk for six days from the Donetsk region to Kyiv, to a pre-trial detention center.”
“It was a little disappointing that you didn’t feel a sense of belonging and support from your great country. But I love my country. And my attitude towards her will not change,” says Masha. “You are a fossil,” one of those who conducted the interrogation told me. Probably... I was just brought up on such books: “How the Steel Was Tempered”, “The Gadfly”, “The Young Guard”, and it would be strange to read one thing and live differently.”
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