Rich experience: Putin participated in repression against dissidents in 1976 (photo)
Soviet artists Yulius Rybakov and Oleg Volkov wrote on the Petropavlovsk fortress in Leningrad "You will sprinkle freedom, but the soul of man does not know the shackles!". This was reported by Peter historian Konstantin Scholmov, who posted a picture of the archival protocol on Facebook. "It is necessary, as interesting. Oleg Volkov's search protocol (this is the famous case of the inscription" You will sprinkle freedom, but the soul of a person does not know the shackles! ")," Scholmov wrote.
As specified, the original document of the protocol is stored in the Museum of Political History of St. Petersburg. In the morning of August 3, 1976, artists Oleg Volkov and Julius Rybakov put on the wall of the Petropavlovsk fortress in Leningrad (current St. Petersburg) inscription 40 and almost 1. 2 meters in length: "You will sprinkle freedom, but the soul of the person does not know the shackles.
" It was an action in protest against the persecution of the creative intelligentsia in the Soviet Union. A few months before, the artists tried to organize a street exhibition of their works on the same location. After the emergence of a resonant inscription of the dissidents, they were accused of anti -Soviet agitation. Rybakov received six years of colonies, Volkov - seven. The name of the current President of the Russian Federation is mentioned in the protocol of the search conducted by Volkov.
It is worth noting that the document has no initials. Putin's participation in the investigation was also told by a deputy from St. Petersburg from Boris Vyshnevsky. "The search was conducted, in particular, Lieutenants Vladimir Putin and Pavel Koshelev. He was" Korshunov ", who" kicked "artists and rock club, pursued, in particular, Georgy Mikhailov, and in 1991 he was appointed Anatoly Sobchak for the post of head of the Petrograd District Administration" , - said the Russian politician.