Sevyarynets: Yes, twenty will fit, I'm telling you

«In the solitary confinement cells and regular cells where I was thrown in with informers already in June-July, I learned about the emergency measures that the prison administration was taking on the eve of the 2020 presidential campaign.

First of all, a month before the events, in early July, the policemen methodically went through all the cells of the Isolation Center and the pre-trial detention center, checking ventilation and equipment, and also measuring the "useful volume" of each cell.

For what purpose? To know how many people could maximally be "packed" into the cells, so that people wouldn't suffocate to death. In front of me, employees tested whether the tables and beds were securely fastened, and calculated on paper the cubic meters of air that would remain if as many people as possible were crammed into a standard four-person cell (designed for four prisoners).

A kind of school problem: how many people maximum will survive in a closed cell the size of a Khrushchev-era kitchen for 10-15 days.

Underperformers in uniform stand, doing column multiplication, whispering:

— Well, sixteen works out. According to the norm.

— Yes, twenty will fit, I'm telling you.

I remember, I got goosebumps. Because I recalled how once, back in 2001, I received a sentence of detention on Independence Declaration Day, specifically in July – and in a prisoner transport vehicle (avtozak), when being transported from the district department to the same Akrestsina, I almost suffocated in the iron, single-prisoner "pencil case" cell: three of us were crammed in there.

They also checked the capacity of the exercise yards: in August, they would fill them to capacity and brutally beat people there with batons and boots.

And even earlier, mattresses – the so-called "wadding" – were taken from the entire prison.

Firstly, it's extra volume, and secondly, during prison riots, "wadding" is used by prisoners for protection and burns when they make "smoke bombs". The entire Akrestsina, starting from June 2020, slept on bare boards.

And, of course, special forces and personnel training. Right next to Akrestsina is "Belpolk," a special unit of the internal troops. In June-July, once every two weeks, shields clanged and cars roared in the courtyards adjacent to Akrestsina.

We didn't yet know what savagery would unfold in August 2020 at Akrestsina. But the comrade bosses didn't just know – they purposefully prepared this savagery.

Therefore, the August whispers from employees through the food slots — "Guys, just be patient a bit, no one knew it would be like this" — are complete nonsense.

And one can only guess what they are preparing for now.

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