Small, but victory

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Now they calmly let young children go to play on the street, they themselves walk until late without fear. This has not happened in these parts since the early 2000s. It could not have been up to now. If the residents of the village, desperate to wait for help from the authorities, would not take their clubs in their hands. And also stones, shovels - everything that came to hand at that moment.

That story in August 2012 thundered all over the country. Recall that another incident involving guest workers (a 45-year-old woman was raped and beaten to a pulp) and the clearly inhibited reaction of the local police to him, forced people to take to the streets, armed with whatever they could, to block the federal highway passing relatively nearby, protesting like way against the lawlessness of strangers and the inaction of the authorities. Miraculously, no one died then. But there were many who were beaten "into blood" - all fifty-odd migrants who worked at the local poultry farm. When the police finally arrived at the scene, and with them representatives of the district and regional administrations, the local residents triumphed, forcing the visiting hard workers, mostly Tajiks, to flee. Mostly in the nearby forest. From there they were then, again not without the help of the population, taken out in small groups and taken away from the village.

In general, everyone shuddered, fussed. An inspection was carried out, as a result of which it turned out that many Central Asian workers of the poultry farm do not have not only a work permit in Russia, but also the right to be on its territory. And they were because the area where the village is located is remote, consider it, a hinterland. A rare representative of the migration service "flew" here. The director of the "poultry" production used this for more than one year, encouraging the cheap labor of illegal immigrants.

Today, less than a year after the emergency, it is quiet in Pobeda. And very calm. Old but neat houses, greenery on clean-swept streets, children's laughter on playgrounds. At the same time, the police are nowhere to be seen.

─ What are they supposed to do here now? - is talking Kirill Shtokalov … - We have created our own people's squad, put things in order.

At first, from one and a half to two dozen people were called in to be on duty at the DND every day. Established a duty schedule. Not a single corner of the village was left without attention. Gradually, the need for such patrolling disappeared. The number of vigilantes also sharply decreased. One of the reasons is its unofficial status. It has not yet been possible to register the DND officially, mainly due to purely bureaucratic problems.

But there are no migrants in Pobeda not only due to the vigilance and determination of local residents. Now they simply have nothing to do here - in the literal sense. No job. The poultry farm "Drummer", where they earned for more than one year, living on makeshift bunks in abandoned poultry houses, now accepts only local workers (there are 200 of 270 people). The rest are from neighboring villages. This was categorically demanded in that hot August 2012 by the residents of the Pobeda village from the leaders of Udarnik. While they keep their word.

─ They have nothing else to do, the locals say with conviction. - They know: we will stop at nothing now in order to prevent migrants from entering our legal jobs, to our village. There is little hope for power. Only for yourself. I have experience.

I am interested in my interlocutors (anonymous at their request), what happened to their compatriot, who was subjected to violence, to the rapist himself? The woman was treated for a long time, including with the help of a professional psychologist. Now she returned to the "Drummer", where she worked most of her life. The best psychologist for her was the villagers, who did not leave her, supported her in every possible way from the first days of the emergency. And the rapist, Uzbek Sanzhar Rustamov, is in prison, he received a real term - six years and four months. By the way, it turned out that he had already been tried in Russia for manslaughter. Received a suspended sentence. And - went for a walk on …

In Pobeda, it took a real popular uprising to restore order, restore peace to the village and its inhabitants, and, perhaps most importantly, work. Let it be not too large-scale, with the participation of about three hundred residents. But the village itself is not large. Thank God, there were no weapons.

In another village, Kobralovo, another district of the Leningrad region - Gatchinsky, which is relatively close to St. Petersburg, in about the same situation, it came to shooting. So the Dagestanis got the local residents there. “They seem to be their own, Russians, but they behave like a boor,” the residents of Kobralovo explain. - They do not work to work, imposing a tribute on the villagers. They constantly beat up our guys, bully girls. How much can you endure?"

And then the power manifested itself only after people, tired of the lawlessness of the newcomers, took out weapons - cold and firearms (there are many experienced hunters among the locals).

Weapons are used more and more often in an attempt to get rid of the "non-local". The fists "don't work" anymore. People no longer want to put up with the almost uncontrollable flow of people from the south. And they stop restraining themselves. A couple of weeks ago, just a few minutes after it became known about the attempted rape of a little boy by a guest worker (as it turned out, illegal), hundreds of people gathered at the St. Petersburg department of the Federal Migration Service (FMS). It was an early evening on a weekday. But no one complained about fatigue. People were ready, it seemed, on the spot to break up any immigrant from Central Asia. So everyone was outraged by what was happening. It is a miracle that this spontaneous gathering did not develop into large-scale pogroms - in that area there are many resettled houses, as well as hostels where migrants "gather".

Alas, the number of crimes with their participation is not decreasing in St. Petersburg. For six months of this year, almost one and a half thousand have been registered. And how many are unregistered? As well as those migrants who come to us without any permission for that, having neither an angle, nor money, nor a job. In search of which such guests can walk aimlessly around the city and its environs for months.

Of course, they are trying to somehow "organize" them. The representatives of the FMS, together with the police, carry out regular raids. Illegals and offenders are detained, deportation documents are drawn up. All this requires a lot of time and money, which, as always, we do not have enough. On average, no more than ten people a week are deported from St. Petersburg for the territory of the Russian Federation. As a result, in the few for some reason other centers for keeping foreign citizens, detainees are stuffed like herring in a barrel. They even take turns sleeping. Whoever can - runs from there.

What efficiency is there to talk about? Who can ordinary citizens hope for?

“As a rule, labor contracts are concluded for up to one year. When a person's contract ends, the employer should ask: has he bought a ticket home, or is he planning to continue to stay with us to live and work? - spoke during the spontaneous gathering in Khasanskaya Elena Dunaeva, head of the Federal Migration Service for St. Petersburg and the region … - But practically nobody does this. And no one notifies us about this, but we could connect. Unfortunately, there is no such work in our direction at all. In fact, we found what we found. I understand that there is discontent. But there are also laws. My colleagues from the FMS and I have no right to change them."

Translating it into the public domain, the authorities sign their impotence, letting go of the situation out of control. And obviously slowly correcting something.

However, the representatives of the peoples who come to work for us have a slightly different opinion.

─ In fact, this is all pure politics, - believes Alidzhan Khaidarov, vice-president of the community of citizens of Uzbekistan in the North-West of the Russian Federation … ─ Someone above needs to embroil our peoples. They just push our heads together. I think this is all the weakness of the authorities. This is the whole point.