Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of having bombed a prison causing the death of nearly fifty inmates and injuring more than 120, the fact is under investigation and it is expected that due to the magnitude of the events those responsible will be punished severely.
The prisoners, regardless of the crime committed, are defenseless subjects, however, many jailers like to victimize the inmates, a situation that occurs more frequently in autocratic regimes, aggravating the environment when the authorities are inspired by sectarian and exclusionary thoughts such as Marxism, fascism or fundamentalism of any kind.
Prison is harsh no matter how strong the convictions and political commitments of the prisoner are, however, the despots and their henchmen tend to implement particularly horrendous prison systems with the aim of breaking the captive morally and physically.
In addition, it must be said, in addition to the condition of confinement, there are countless factors that seriously affect the physical and mental capacities of the inmate, which motivated José Martí, an exceptional man, who made the prison his patriotic forge, to write , “Because the pain of prison is the harshest, the most devastating of pains, the one that kills intelligence, and dries up the soul, and leaves traces on it that will never be erased”, in other words, prison is a challenge of gigantic proportions, debases you, or forges you as a full citizen.
The Soviets, the masters of KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin, were the ones who invented the Gulag, hellish camps where, over a prolonged period, mortality among prisoners reached 7 percent. They also turned the headquarters of their political police, Lubyanka, into a symbol of the repression of a regime of controlling nature and even had the cynicism to build an 11-ton bronze statue of the master of sadism, Felix Dzerzhinski, founder of the Bolshevik political police, a subject of the same ilk as Heinrich Himmler.
The cruelty of the Soviet jailers was reflected in “Gulag Archipelago” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and in other books by the same author such as “A day in the life of Iván Denísovich”. They are testimonies that reflect the insanity of regencies that seek power to make their governed suffer.
Numerous are the examples to evoke. The Soviets have not been alone in using political prison as an approach to the final solution for dissent. Chinese prisons are horrendous as described by the journalist Dai Huang, who died in 2016, in his book ‘Nine deaths and one life’, the author spent 20 years in a forced labor camp where he suffered from hunger and serious health problems without medical assistance . Let us not forget the prison system of another Putin ally, North Korea, also characterized by “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, as certified by Human Rights Watch.
The disciples and colleagues of the KGB colonel in America place the most vile of his henchmen at the head of his system of jails and prisons. Amado Rodríguez, 22 years in prison, collects in his book, “Cuba, Clamor del Silencio” a testimony that details how thousands of pounds of high explosives were placed in the Isla de Pinos prison to blow up the prison with all the inmates in its inside if there was an attack on the precinct, and in Nicaragua, the friend of the Kremlin, Daniel Ortega, constantly violates the rights of his prisoners by applying very severe torture.
With absolute honesty I confess that I tend to believe that this vile attack on a prison is the responsibility of Putin and the genizares who are waging their war, because it is a fact that corresponds to the evil of the police and prison services from which this subject comes.
On the other hand, it makes no sense for the Ukrainian government to kill its own forces. In addition, in that prison, members of the Azov Battalion were locked up, a military unit that has been fighting pro-Russian separatists in the Donbás region for eight years and has been accused of being pro-Nazi, the favorite accusation of the nomenclature to the kyiv government, with which it intends to justify its criminal war.
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