Good if our country, if the mythology of “AUE” is so popular?

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Хороша ли вообще наша страна, если мифология «АУЕ» пользуется такой популярностью?

The government wants to fight the “subculture AUE”, usually giving the result of the troubles for the cause

Senator Anton Belyakov, a week ago in the Duma introduced a bill prohibiting propaganda on the Internet and in the media, “criminal subculture”. This is not the first such legislative initiative. In 2014, the state Duma Deputy Oleg Mikheyev has already submitted a draft law prohibiting “propaganda and romanticizing of violence and criminal lifestyle in the media, literature and film.” The bill Mikheeva has not even reached the stage of consideration. What fate will the bill Belyakova, is difficult to say. But the deputies of the lower house of Parliament is now, in contrast to 2014, willing to talk about “the need to protect youth from the criminal subculture.” For example, a member of the faction “United Russia” Sergei Boyarsky said that “it is necessary to legislatively empower our regulatory authorities, including Roskomnadzor, the appropriate authority to have all these malicious resources, representing a threat to our security from the perspective of raising teenagers could be immediately blocked by all available means”.

Excursion to the zone: “18 teenagers have gone “the way of the convict” from the paddy wagon to bed”

Went organized groundswell of support prohibitive measures in the regions. In particular, the Astrakhan newspaper “Volga” writes that in the local office of the Federal penitentiary service law, limiting the spread of criminal subculture “waited long”. The leadership of the local FSIN shares with the journalist of “Volga” with their experience of dealing with the prison subculture for the hearts and minds of youth: “used to take troubled Teens in detention centers on the tour to show what hardships await those who are behind bars. Now, however, the life of prisoners has changed for the better. To frighten impoverished punks and homeless have nothing. So I decided to go back to and show a good example — led to trips to the special forces, dog handlers”.

The recognition of the employees of the FSIN that they drove teenagers in prisons to introduce them to arestantskaya hardships and turn away from the “thug passion”, and more recently in itself could become a sensation. But this story is lost, drowned in the noise of a well-organized disturbance “the growing popularity of “subculture AUE””.

One can only wonder about the strange stories of Astrakhan fsinovtsy. The frightened “troubled Teens” until the life of the prisoner is not changed “for the better”? Cameras, crowded in five or six times above the limit? Coughing tubercular blood by sitting together with healthy prisoners? Inmates from the lower castes, living near the bathroom? And why now “impoverished punks” you can’t scare the old-fashioned way? Astrakhan prison was like a prison in Oslo or in Helsinki? There is now normal diet, and walking are no longer in tiny courtyards with barred sky?

It is also not clear how “difficult adolescents” living in depressive, subsidized regions will help the meeting with the commandos and handlers — even if we assume that it is not meeting with the special forces and handlers of the Federal penitentiary service during the transfer to the colony. Given that the salary of a dog handler “Volopas”, according to the newspaper “Volga” is only seven thousand — and the handlers in 2015 was under threat of dismissal — it is unclear what a positive experience I can share these people with “difficult teenagers”.

Note that trips to the colonies for “seasoned punks” — not a unique Astrakhan experience and common practice “prevention”. Tyumen teenagers consisting on the account in the Commission on Affairs of minors, was taken on a tour of the colony. In 2013, the website of the Federal penitentiary service in the Kemerovo region reported that “at the initiative of Council of veterans of the apparatus of the penitentiary was travel — excursion to the strict-regime colony No. 44 in the town of Belovo”.

“In the framework of educational work with difficult teenagers consisting on the account in division on Affairs of minors, 18 adolescents aged 14 to 19 years have gone “the way of the convict” from the paddy wagon to bed. The children visited the punishment cell, canteen, prayer room, garage, school, jobs convicted and dormitories,” — said the staff of the prison service.

The peak of popularity in the FSIN a “tour” of the practice accounts for 2012-2013, but it did “tour” later. For example, in 2015 the tour (although, in a colony-settlement, not colony) held “for young students and teenagers consisting on the account in inspection on Affairs of minors”, in the Chechen capital, Grozny. According to the Director of the Center for social rehabilitation of teenagers “Phoenix” Abdullah Laricheva “the aim was to expand the knowledge of children about the natural life in society”. In 2016 “troubled Teens” from the Vologda region visited in the remand prison № 2. In 2017 in the Bryansk region of the minors consisting on the account, took a trip to the local correctional facility.

So “profilaktirovat” youth in the last few years. Apparently, tours of prisons and zones do not help in the fight against the spread of criminal subculture. Now all hope of the state to Roskomnadzor, trying in manual mode to control the Internet, and on amendments to the law “On mass media”.

To understand the phenomenon of “AUE” on the outside, you need to understand what “AUE” in prison

Of course, the abbreviation “AUE” is not the invention of teenagers, sitting in the thematic pages “Vkontakte”, and even some “puppeteers”, allegedly promoting prison subculture among young people.

Stifled a hoarse cry of “AUE!” you had decades to hear over the courtyards of the detention centers across the prison world and postsovetskogo Soviet space — from St. Petersburg’s “Kresty” prison of the Far East. “AUE” (“the prisoner’s life is one”, “prisoner-urkaganskogo unity”) is the greeting, and password, and the Declaration of certain values belonging to a particular way of life.

“Hut One-three-zero, AUE, take the goods!” Hardly Dorozhnik (the inmate responsible for illegal Mescalero communication), sending with the help of special ropes pouch with tea and cigarettes in the neighboring cell # 130 at prison, know that echoing the letters “AUE” will be the name of youth online communities and the subject of meetings with the President.

The “back door”, “thieves go” — a specific criminal office of internal life prison colonies for decades. The state referred to this phenomenon in different ways at different times and in different regions. It tried to push the “thieves move” “change” zone in “red” — that is, enforcing a strict regime order. It was closed for “thieves move” eyes: first, the “thievish progress” was given by the staff of the administration of the huge possibilities of corruption, and, secondly, a significant part of the hassle of maintaining basic order had fallen from the shoulders of the state on the shoulders of “thieves”. Then again, the state “repainted” zone — changing bosses, translating into other colonies “authority”, inserting special forces, and arranging the beatings of prisoners on the parade ground.

“Thieves move” in many colonies and prison still exists. And it is unlikely he would be so tenacious, if limited to a desire to “thieves” to keep the prison under control. The fact that the Russian government relating to the prisoner as the beast, unable and unwilling to provide him with adequate food and generally acceptable living conditions, makes the “thieves move” in the eyes of the prisoners the lesser evil. The great mass of prisoners deprived of any support from the outside, abandoned by their families or families are not able to travel to a distant colony and do the basic food transfer. The prisoner, behind the bars with nothing, will receive the “common Fund” a pack of cigarettes, tea, toothpaste, spare pair of socks, and maybe even the scarce but necessary grocery addition to the prison gruel.

The hierarchy of the world of thieves is reminiscent of the harsh traditional communities, with their castes: Brahmins — the “thieves in law”, the Kshatriyas — “the thieves”, the Vaisya men, as well as lower caste and untouchable. Hierarchy and set of unwritten codes create for prisoners, the rules of the game, rules of life, somehow protecting riddled with neuroses and stresses the prisoner’s world from outbreaks of unmotivated aggression, and threat of anarchy.

With “thieves” in places of deprivation of freedom can be eliminated. For this you just need to create normal living conditions for prisoners. In the end, the court sentences them to imprisonment, not permanent torture from start to finish.

To fully provide prisoners with adequate food, hygiene items. To end the overpopulation of cameras in the jail — and the current FPS issues as an unprecedented achievement in the life of four adult men in a tiny narrow box with a length of several meters. If the number of prisoners equal to the number of bunks beds and people sleeping in turn, means “no congestion”. To kill unmotivated cruelty and extortion on the part of prison staff.

Only the implementation of these measures will make successful and administrative measures to eliminate “thieves run”. While this is not the same, the prisoner, with a hypothetical choice between the dangerous and stressful “thieves ‘ world” and the well-familiar state of violence inevitably recoil to the “thieves world”. This world is clearer, safer, and maybe somehow will help. The current state meaner and scarier than the underworld

You can be anything a snob and turn up my nose to “concepts” and the prison subculture, but as soon as the doors slam “the dead house” and the question between a “red zone” or “black zone”, almost all prefer to get on the black.

The search for the guilty with conspiracy theories

While there is a “move thieves” behind bars it’s seeping and external, “free” world.

“I was born — never believe — in the maze of factory yards in the country pigeon that is split — a thousand years on cops and thieves”, — poetically scored once Boris Ryzhy prosaic statement “half sitting — half-protected”.

Russia — a country where the great mass of the population if not served, it makes immediate ancestors, relatives or friends who had “done time”. The popularity of prisoner subcultures there have always been incurable and fatal iron fact — and not only at the grass-roots, folk, folk level.

Against this background, calls to ban the “propaganda of the criminal subculture” look especially weird and pointless.

“Yes, we are a country of great culture of the prison, as would be gone, and sansonno it may sound. There are songs of Dina Vierny, Vladimir Vysotsky, Arkady North. In Russia for decades, almost no one good biography, which somehow would not have been connected with the prison,” says Open Russia Executive Director of the human rights movement “Russia sitting” Olga Romanova.

“And the abbreviation “SLON”: “Death COP from a knife”, “Solovki special purpose camp”? If a journalist, writer, historian does not know, then it’s probably still “out of profession”? How to read Shalamov? With a dictionary? Let them better look after their COP and parliamentary language. I don’t understand this morbid interest of legislators to the prison subculture topics. It looks like old Soviet times, with the prohibition of pornography: people get banned, but they will look” — describes new legislative initiatives the Chapter “Russia sitting”.

However, the probability of making such bills a human rights activist skeptical about: “In a country in which there is the expression “to wet in a toilet”, the “torment swallowing dust,” pretty dangerous to give a hint on the prohibition of prison subculture.”

It should be noted that it’s especially “underworld romance” was widespread among young people freely migrating in the wild from prisons and colonies for “youngsters”, she was impregnated special schools and boarding schools. It is among this population “thieves ‘ concepts” dangerously mutated, mutated, gaining the most violent, brutal form, in General, is not peculiar to the “adult” prison world. Still the people of the popular shocking “jokes” about preventing a prisoner-youngster to go on a date with his mother, if it is something red out of clothes, and about other absurd restrictions far beyond the scope of reason. Now, even among young offenders such infernal rules of life is gone, but once they were a reality.

On the other hand, in recent years there is an explosive growth of popularity associated with “AUE” memes and other subcultural elements — including among adolescents, not directly connected with the criminal world. This is especially true for regions of the Asian part of the country. In social networks there is a kind of branding of the prison subculture. This is despite the fact that the notorious “dashing 90-e” is long over, and around an unprecedented rise of “spirituality”.

The state and the part of the public, as always, looking for the guilty among administrators of public social networks, design the conspiracy theories and lament on a favorite from the late 80-ies of the theme “We are losing the youth”. But the easiest way to look for blame in the labyrinths of conspiracy theories, and not himself. Not in the lawlessness of law enforcement agencies. Not in abject poverty. Not the lack of social mobility. Not in a false state ideology, causing disgust among young people. Not the lack of honest, fair rules of life.

“If you live in Miass or Kumertau, you have no much chances to get by”

According to the chief editor of the portal “Mediazone” Sergei Smirnov, it is impossible to speak about the spread of “youth subculture AUE” as a planned operation of the criminal world. “The underworld himself constantly under the impact, and actually dream of this whole criminal world to legalize under business and forget about his past. There is no underworld in the old sense, with a touch of romance,” — said in an interview with Open Russia Smirnov.

“I think the problem here in something similar to the infatuation with Stalinism. People are trying to find the roots of a more equitable society in lost ideals, — said the chief editor of “media zones”. — So, the underworld with its own rules, understanding of good and evil, the romance, again, is attractive. Especially where there is aversion to the police. You have to understand that life “on concepts” passed on from generation to generation, both sitting, and just communicate with sitting. Concepts seem to be more attractive than the current rules.”

Journalist Pavel Nikulin, exploring subcultures, in an interview with Open Russia holds an interesting parallel with the one existing network project.

“In 2014, I was familiar with the subculture of the “autonomy-Yeltsinites”. It was a mocking post-modern project, dedicated to Boris Yeltsin. But at some point people are grouped around this public, all seriously believe — and was ready to break skulls for insulting Yeltsin. They are actually about Yeltsin knew nothing — for them it was a unifying myth. I think the same thing can be with any subcultures. Subculture here — a kind of decoration. If the person is aggressive if he is angry, if he is able to hate and loves to hate, and ready to kill and Rob — it doesn’t matter what the ideology or subculture he belongs. It is the quality of the person who purchased. Yes, violent people are more likely to choose something aesthetically aggressive. But the question is not that somebody teaches to kill, but the fact that this man is in itself bad, evil, and it is his personal property. These Yeltsinites also started lightly, but then began to cling to the words. And you realized that talking with young people who have not had a serious criminal record, or prison experience, but you have to follow the words as if you communicate with notebooks inmates. That is, they believe in this myth.”

According to Nikulina, the emergence of aggressive subculture is a consequence of any problems in adolescents, not the cause. “People are interested not because they themselves are moral monsters, but because they don’t live in very good conditions, — says the expert. They are looking for some mythology that will help them to survive in the world. It is a question of how good our country if the mythology of this “AUE” is so popular”.

“For me, this story of the “AUE” is a litmus test. We live in a country at war, we live in a country without political freedoms. We live in a country where schools political propaganda instead of lessons. We live in a country where your school teaches not to think but to train for the exam. If you live in any city in Miass or the city of Kumertau, you have no much chances to get on. The peak of popularity of this subculture has been observed in Chita, a region known for great proverb “Live at the lake — do not click hlebalom” in region — leader in the number of murders. And the leader in the number of murders he was long before the emergence of this subculture. My friends left cheats not even because he was afraid, but because they are tired of conflict, they are tired of fighting in the streets every day. They are not something that could sustain this way of life could. But they didn’t. We live in a country where half sitting and half supervised, where is the phrase “Kid to success was not my lucky day”. Where about getting to the police station ironically say “Put on the bottle.” But in fact, the “plant bottle” — it means to kill a man, and quite painful way. It is clear that this discourse is already “normalized” violence. When you have a generation passed through the camp, the discourse of violence will inevitably be “normalized”. It’s not a question of what “children playing in the prison”, is an issue that your grandparents sat, and no it then is not considered, not compensated, not held the normal rehabilitation,” explains the journalist.

“I would recommend to senators, deputies and others to study this phenomenon, as it is a kind of message that sends to us the generation of this” — sums up myself.

But the state is unlikely to be particularly deep study “the phenomenon” — of course, except for employees of “Center “e””, which may soon start to monitor social media in search the census from groups of “AUE!”.

You may recall how the state against the background of campaigning in the press struggled with suicide among adolescents. Then, too, fought with the consequence and not the cause; with the Internet public, and not with boundless depression teenage life and tremendous alienation in society.

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