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es vēl nenoskatījos, bet, vecīt, you don't know what they've been through.

I can only imagine. Although I have had a pretty descriptive experience with myself being behind bars for 48 hours, so on a level I can somewhat empathize with their suffering as it was one of the worst experiences in my life (and, of course, the officials are specially trained to make this experience even worse; especially in Russia and it's ex-satellite states).

But what was the purpose? Have they fulfilled that? Yes, there popped up some minds with questions holding slogans when they we're incarcerated (inertly, I was one of them). But as the release date came, so did their 15 minutes of fame (we're gone). And now they're just an another Big Coorp. band that's extensively using session musicians (because the band itself is a fiction; it's not real, so there aren't any bandmembers in the real sense of that word) and lyrics in english to do what? Spread the good word? Talk about social injustice in Russia? Wait, didn't we know that already? Of course, we all understand the need to remind ourselves that most of us are being oppressed in one way or another, as without this essential knowledge there wouldn't even be that slight, slight chance to have an option of escape. But in times like these even the idea of "escape" itself and the methods of doing so are capitalized by the Big Coorp, so technically our possibilities of escaping are closing in as walls do close in to a claustrophobic in a small, stuffy room.

We can only hope that the picture of tomorrow won't include this secene of dedicated groups of government or Big Coorp people that have learned the ways of escapism so to provide us with them for a nominal fee. Or a part of your soul.

But maybe it's just that nowadays the count of potential escapists are rising and rising, and there isn't a notion in the air that would calm us saying that things somehow will change therefore relieving them of the need to not be present, to not stand in a line but instead remain in their natural order, to be free men.

So to end while still holding the subject of this comment in my gun sights... Pussy Riot sold out big time. And I don't blame them. Money and power are tools too powerful to resist, especially if you're coming from a background where both of these tools were reserved for certain kind of people. Think Perestroika, Russian 90'ties gang warfare and struggle for any kind of power that you can get your hands on. Now, those were really tough times, and I don't envy anyone who have had the pleasure to endure those years. All I can say that they're strong people who are in a desperate need of a new mindset, a new system and new leaders, as their old mindset is made up of indoctrinated historical inaccuracies and the really poor leadership (by NATO standards, lol) make it a lot worse for them, and there are almost no options of spiritual guidance as their church is a crooked one - one where some priests are driving the latest luxus model 4x4's and other vehicles possibly doing so as a mean to abstract themselves from this sinful world of flesh and other socially accepted material valuables (gold, silver, gems).

you can not imagine. and I do not wish you to broaden your insights.