Stanislav Aseyev

Liebe Freunde in Deutschland, der Suhrkamp Verlag hat eine Essaysammlung großartiger Autoren mit dem Titel „Geteilter Horizont“ veröffentlicht.

Mein Artikel ist enthalten, den Anfang davon seht ihr auf dem Foto.

Ich kann das Buch wärmstens empfehlen; den Link findet ihr unten.

...and didn’t respond to anything we said to him.

We had to lift him up and move him to a seat at the table (which involved pressing on his broken ribs), where we could begin to engage him in a conversation about fishing and mining (he was a miner and liked to fish)".
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At night, whenever he heard the slightest noise in the corridor, his hands would begin to shake and he’d sit perched on the very edge of the cot nearest the door, saying over and over, “Just hang on, son, hang on, hang on.” He was convinced that he was back in the basement with his son...
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That evening we encountered another problem. From about seven p.m. until half past eight, the man was suddenly completely disoriented. He raved as if in a fever and clearly didn’t know where he was. It turned out that he had been tortured every day for a week at precisely that time...
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...(they did the same to the father) - the men doing the torturing yelled at the father, “Look at your whelp, he peed himself!”

This inmate later told me that neither the torture itself nor the threat to his life had caused him as much pain as he felt in that moment...
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had been tortured together with his own son, on the same table. Torture is a complex system of measures and isn’t limited to causing physical pain. When the man’s son lost control of his bladder - reflexively, because of the muscle spasms induced by the electricity shocking his genitals and anus
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"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" continues to come to life, and another character, described below, is already free.

It's absolutely surreal to talk on the phone to these people through eight years and the depths of Russian basements:

"Another serious case involved a man who...
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"The Torture Camp on Paradise Street" now in the Czech Republic.

This is very important for me, given the role Prague plays in the book's final chapter.
I thank the publishing house Grada and Ян Кравчик for making this possible.

Link to the book:
www.grada.cz/cesta-svetla...

An Atheist’s Prayer (part of The Torture Camp on Paradise Street):

"Dear Lord, grant that I not be indifferent".

Written in quarantine at Penal Colony No. 32, after Isolation.

Baltic states plan for mass evacuations in case of a Russian attack The three Baltic states are drawing up contingency plans to deal with the possibility of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a troop buildup or attack.

"It's possible we will see a mighty army along the borders of the Baltics, with the apparent goal of taking all three countries in three days to a week".

I love Oslo:)

Western intelligence have evidence that Russia discussing NATO attack, says EU defense commissioner - Euromaidan Press EU Defense Commissioner Kubilius says Ukraine's startup-based defense industry offers NATO members critical lessons in drone warfare and rapid innovation.

"Western intelligence have evidence that Russia discussing NATO attack, says EU defense commissioner".

As I said yesterday: our only hope lies in the professionals in the European intelligence services.

Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within

"Drones over Poland;

MiG fighters traversing Estonian airspace;

telecom cables damaged deep beneath the Baltic Sea;

airports paralysed by cyber-attacks and quadcopters;

mysterious explosions and assassinations;

bot swarms pumping out propaganda to disrupt elections":

Too many people here own homes, cars, and businesses to believe such a thing...

Our only hope is that professionals in the European intelligence services are capable of conveying the true state of affairs to the leaders of their countries.
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...for the May holidays right before the Russian invasion.

But I also realized something else: most people can't be convinced of these things until they happen.

That's where the questions about international law for prisoners come from, given your story about wires tied to your body.
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- let the regular army fight” doesn’t work;
that the Russians are capable of opening a front in the Baltic states, even while being bogged down near a village in Donbas.

After all, it was foolish not to learn from Ukraine's mistakes; its leadership called for preparations...
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and now - most likely - even the Czech Republic might decide that it’s not worth going to war for Estonia or Lithuania; that spending months arguing about how to change the laws just to be able to shoot down a Russian drone over Munich was madness;
that the philosophy of “I paid my taxes...
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that civilian airports could be paralyzed; that hundreds of Russian drones could suddenly launch from trucks in Germany and France - just like Ukrainian ones did in Russia.

They can’t imagine that the U.S. might call for negotiations, or that Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey,
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...strongly resembles the mood in Europe today.

People here simply can't imagine that an internet cable in The Baltic Sea could be destroyed and Northern Europe will be without internet; that missiles could strike military bases currently being watched by Russian reconnaissance drones;
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And then, a week later, at four in the morning, through the sound of Russian missile explosions, I asked in confusion, "What is this?" And over the phone, he simply said, "This is war."

This feeling of endless peace and stability - the belief that nothing can truly go wrong... -
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I joked that it's not great, since I don't have any of that, but I also don't believe in an invasion, since the concentrated Russian forces were not enough to occupy Ukraine and take Kyiv, and Putin is an experienced KGB man and should understand this.
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A week before the invasion, my friend asked me:

- I don't believe there will be an invasion, but I have a question: maybe that's because I have my own house, car, and business, and I can't believe it could all end in one day? You don't have any of this - how do you assess the situation?".
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And the only thing you need to know in Russian captivity is how to minimize the electric shocks during interrogation.
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Dear friends and fellow journalists, please understand: in the case of the Russians, we are not dealing with the civilized part of humanity.

We are dealing with those who are returning the tortured body of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, missing her brain, eyeballs, and trachea.
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In London, I was asked:
- Can knowledge of international law help Ukrainian soldiers in captivity?

I replied that the answer to your question is the topic of one of my lectures, namely, "Characteristics of victim behavior during torture interrogation."
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I am deeply grateful to The Ukrainian Institute London for the invitation.

I'm 36 today.
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