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Chapter twelve.

Tony’s slaves.

In our school, sometimes absolutely extraordinary things happened, in which neither a single preclear, who has not passed the highest auditing procedures, will be able to believe; one of such things was a special system of exploitation of man by man, which we called «slavery», although this was not in its pure form.

In our Republic, many things that are incompatible in the opinion of a philistine are combined in the most bizarre way: a high level of teaching in our school was combined with such wild things in the ethical sense that I am still giving myself a miracle, remembering this. The essence of this phenomenon was very simple, and the details are complex, but from the viewpoint of the observer-observer it was so approximately: there is Antonina Bozhenka, to which all the children ofour district are subordinate.

In fact, everything was approximately the same, with some degree of detail, of course: Tonya had a rather large staff of people dependent on her, who carried out her orders. The execution of orders was in no way a toy, but the most eerie and present to pain, and sometimes to laughter; dependent schoolboy could at any minute, even at three o'clock in the morning, call Antonina's house for urgent work, could take all his savings from him, and punish him throughphysical and mental torments. Those who became addicted were called «slaves», which became easy, but finding relief from the scourge turned out to be extremely difficult for everyone, which nevertheless does not mean that all the children of the district were in «slaves», for many avoided getting into the network, but most of the unconscious were there. To fall into slavery was possible in a variety of ways, which Tonya knew a lot: blackmail, getting into a debt trap, persecution, boycott, intimidation, propaganda etc.

A man could begin to harass: to call publicly and on the web, to humiliate, spread false rumors about him, to put all sorts of jokes and offensive jokes, even to beat him, only to make him enslaved. They could frighten a person: throw Molotov cocktails twice a week in his windows, track him down, try to attack and threaten without stopping, spoil the door of his apartment or the surface of his parents' car, hoping to force him to make a concession. There were, however, other methods, much more subtle and effective, and among them the most frequent reason for falling into slavery was a loan taken once from Antonina, but never returned by money, but paid for by personal freedom.

In our time, among the teenagers, consumer sentiment flourished, and so everyone wanted to buy something very special for boasting, which was spurred on by Tonya herself, which forced slaves to distribute advertising booklets around the school. The schoolboy, according to the established mechanism, learned about some novelty, wanting to buy it, and then, having refused the parents, went immediately to Tone, where he borrowed money for quite a long time, after that completely forgetting about it. He was informed that he should hundreds of times more than usually taken in a couple of months, including not only interest, but also «commissions» and «penalty payments», and when he could not return the debt, which was always in mymemory, he  suggested that he «work out», and if he did not agree, then baiting began.

Often a person was first «hooked» on small loans returned to them on time, preparing to accept a large one, which was drowning the financial position of the individual: large loans could amount to many tens of thousands of rubles, and sometimes hundreds, but millions were already asked to go back. It is in credits that we seek the origins of this phenomenon of our school, since the issuing of loans began the slave system not only in some states of antiquity, but also in the modern school. Initially, in quite a long time, Antonina organized with her friends an organization that was some kind of middle link between a cooperative and a secret society, which was called «Gobsek Cooperative»;  girls initially accumulated a certain amount of money, starting to give out loans to all who wish, gradually accumulating capital and people involved in working off debts.

Over time, the girls learned how to extract «household» benefits from slaves, forcing them to work for themselves, and then they were able to take profits out of service, obliging them to different activities of their dependent ones, and then this profit was made the basis of income; over time, they learned to simply exploit people with the help of the apparatus of repression, becoming full-fledged slave-owner.

The most interesting method of involving people in the slave-owning network, however, was based on their good will, that it can look strange from the side, although here we find the reason why this system can not be called slavery. The fact is that if from the very beginning a few and homogeneous socially dependent simply had to serve the «Gobsek», working off debts, then in time their number exceeded one hundred, and their composition became less homogeneous: there were those who worked for a long time, working off the debt, newcomers on duty, driven by the power of blackmail and harassment. Initially, there was no connection between slaves and slaveholders, except for the debt receipt that fulfilled this role, and this connection was not needed especially, because order could be maintained without it, but now it was needed very much. As the number of slaves grew, and the domestic work of the slave owners coped with the previous number of those who had long been dependent, it forced the girls to force slaves to engage in new activities: primarily trade and handicrafts, carrying them money at the cashier's desk.

The system became less stable, alienation grew, and with it the level of dissatisfaction that was spread by force forced into slavery; did not like the «new» slaves and the fact that the «old»girls serve in the girls houses, and they are forced to freeze, selling all the rubbish in the market, risking getting sick or getting into a madhouse. When the rebellion of the slaves is already ripe, Antonina, who was only the former accountant of Gobsek, took advantage of her position and support of some slaves who believed her, took possession of all the financial assets of the cooperative, which were kept in the form of money and coins of gold and silver in safes.

After that, she became a full-fledged and absolutely autocratic chief of the organization, having carried out a structural reform: «Gobsek» was abolished, and instead of it there was the organization «Union», all of whose members were declared personal slaves of Tony and divided into three categories. The first category of slaves consisted of those who helped her in the criminal atrocity of usurpation, as well as from other girls who founded the cooperative together with her; the second consisted of those who had been in slavery for a long time, and therefore could claim the best working conditions; the third category was formed from newcomers. Slaves of the first category performed only command functions, and even had fun and had leisure with slaves of lower categories; slaves of the second did not work too hard, such as cleaning in the homes of slaves of the first category, as well as Antonina, the maintenance of simple accounting, the purchase of goods, etc.; slaves of the third category were used in the heaviest and dirty work, like dragging building materials during the construction of a summer cottage or in street trading. A kind of social elevator was created, consisting in the fact that for a good job the slave could be raised to the second and then to the third category, and in addition to this an ideological system was created, primarily consisting of mandatory weekly meetings, which required to buy agitation materials, knowledge of which was checked at the following meetings. These materials included not only the «Journal of the Patriotic Schoolboy», but also the «Bulletin of the Center for Ultra-Right Propaganda», as well as newspapers such as «The Enemy of the People» and special websites with paid access, one of which was called «The True Troll», and the other «Bozhenko  and bitard», as well as many other printed and electronic Tony projects, both one-time and permanent.

The division, however, was not only vertical, but also horizontal: «brigades»were formed, consisting of one slave of the first category as the leader, called the «captain», although one slave of the first category usually commanded several brigades at once, and six or seven  dozens of slaves of the second and third categories. The brigade itself was divided into «units» of 6-8, sometimes 8-12 people, consisting of one slave of the second category, who commanded the unit, which was called «sergeant», as well as his subordinates slaves of the third category. Brigades were formed on the basis of age, social and nationality, uniting people for more successful cooperation and organization of production, but there were also the following brigades listed below.

The «Brigade of Exquisite Beginnings»was a kind of Cadet Corps in the defense system, for this brigade consisted almost entirely of kindergartners and junior-school children, who had been taught to slave careers since childhood, as well as their teachers from experienced slaves. In kindergartens, to our school assigned, children from the most tender age were constantly exposed to propaganda from the older part of the slave unit, immediately replenishing it on admission to the primary classes.

The «Brigade of the Downgraded» was an institution that was created because slavery could not be quit or expelled, but it was necessary to punish bad behavior, and therefore created Tony's mind somewhere between the penalty battalion and the ethics section, where they referred to the most dangerous and grave  the work of the most hopeless lazy people, exposing them to all sorts of re-education activities.

The «Brigade of the Black-Hundreds»consisted entirely of the national minorities of the Republic, staffed only because of their color, combining Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Chechens, Uzbeks and other persons, being the most incompetent brigade of all.

«The Brigade of the belated autumn» was formed from high school students, students and already working young people who very much wanted to fall into slavery, but did not have time to do that earlier, as well as those slaves that have already grown out of school uniform, but to let Antonina go did not want to, because they were useful. Slaves of the second number were held there by force, promising to hand over the information that compromised them to their university or workplace, and threatening harassment and even reprisals, which they feared to death, staying in the organization for many years after graduation.

The «Brigade of the Wise Owls» consisted of parents of schoolchildren who not only themselves fell into slavery, but managed to recruit their ancestors there, having a very great influence on the work of the organization, for without this group of many activities Antonina might not have happened.

The «Three Brigades of the General Forces» were really three brigades, which were staffed by high school students, being completely devoid of their individuality, and therefore they were often added to documents under that name.

I must say that these brigades gave the greatest mass and the main force to the movement, which was built around them, taking part in all the operations and deeds of Antonina. «The Brigade of Remote Love» was the actual gathering of various people who usually lived very far from Moscow, engaged in a diverse business, and sent their income to Moscow, «working on a franchise»,as Tonya herself used to say.

The «Supporting Brigade» consisted of a wide variety of personalities who for the most part lived in the Moscow region or in remote parts of the capital, providing the most diverse support for Antonina's actions, such as organizing a warehouse of goods in their apartments.

The «Brigade of the Forest Community» was staffed by rural children living near the dacha sections of the first category slaves and Antonina herself, who were engaged in work on these same plots, and later on off-site economic facilities built by their own forces.

Very, very many young people were imbued with the idea of ​​being able to make a career in the Tony’s structure, where to work for the fullest happiness it was necessary to work hard only, but neither knowledge nor money was needed at first glance. An example of slaves of the first category, the desire to be like them, was also very dangerous, for very many young men and women wished to be in the place of these few people, to enter their circle. SaidaIsmanova, Julia Avvakumova, Nastya Kuznetsova, Sonya Barnash, Sveta Solntseva, Marina Brinyushina, Sasha Ryabikina, Yura Ryzhkov and Petya Zyabkin, who helped Antonina in the accomplishment of the coup – that's all, who was at the very top of the pyramid, then  while others were in a much less enviable position.

People, however, did not stop the possibility of remaining in the third category until death, unable to leave the system in which they were so eager with all the spasms, but it was too late to tell them, for they were now tied up with the society for many years. Some, however, managed to break into the slaves of the first category through all the thorns, risking their health and even their lives, not to mention their reputation, and a number of these wonderful people included some of my acquaintances who were in the seventh heaven after the acquisition of the long-awaited title.

Returning to the essence of the brigades, I should note that they were not permanent associations with strong ties between people who are in them, rather representing the associations created to maintain order in the ranks. These units were much more formal, and to see such that the entire team was concentrated in one place, you could only on the annual oath of allegiance to Antonina; at the same time, the slaves of the lower categories were responsible to the higher ones within their own brigade, and most disputes were resolved within its borders. All orders were received by the slaves from their brigade commanders, being tied to them in all respects to the point that these same commanders often even checked whether they went to bed on time for tomorrow's ascent into an eerie wound. Where more developed were the temporary and permanent interbrigade associations, consisting of people from different brigades who were engaged in complex and interesting activities, about which the word will be said.  Such brigade associations included editorial offices of magazines, a variety of workshops and factories, as well as numerous groups of earnings, which brought in considerable income, sometimes estimated at millions of rubles.

Here I am in the most general terms and outlined our school hierarchical organization of production and the system of exploitation of man by man. This system, although Sergei Alexandrovich called it a «totalitarian pyramid-type cult» it must be said, was not some «other world» completely isolated from society and absolutely static, subject to all the laws of the capitalist economy. This structure was constantly changing and subjected to reforms, on which it pushed life, posing new tasks for it, as well as emerging problems; one of the main such problems was the «enlargement problem», which consisted in the fact that slaves appeared more and more in other cities and even states. If before all other out-of-town slaves there was enough «Brigades of distant love»headed by Sonia Barnash, in course of time more and more brigades will be formed, new posts will be approved, special rules will be introduced, and after all the number of categories will increase to seven, than will be discussed later in my book.

Chapter thirteen.

How Tonya managed to hide slavery.

You, probably, are worried about this question: how did Tonya Bozhenko manage to have an entire army of slaves and not fall into the hands of the police?

To ask this question is required first of all, of course, for our police, since it was she who did not pay any attention to Tony's activity. And the reason was the installation of our entire police system, which is so different from the police systems of English-speaking countries. In our country there is such a key and obscure European concept, as a «precinct policeman». In fact, this is the only unfortunate policeman who alone is responsible for the police security of the whole urban area.

Of course, if he needs reinforcements, he can call him, but he will be reluctant to help, and therefore this one unfortunate, defending the law in a certain territory, is completely alone and helpless. At that time Alexander Ivanovich Rezniak, who in itself was a very unusual person, occupied the post of district policeman. He graduated from the philological faculty of a pedagogical university, and after working as a teacher, he was soon expelled from work because of his total laziness. Having replaced several jobs, this lazy man was eventually able to get a precinct policeman to full satisfaction.

He came to work not earlier than 12 o'clock in the afternoon, but often did not come at all, preferring to lie in bed all day. At work, he usually slept in his large leather chair, resting his legs on the table. In any case, when I went to his office, he always saw that he had collapsed in his chair, resting his feet on the table. He also liked to eat in the workplace, and tight, and that's why he often ordered food from local restaurants for himself in the office, and he was a lover for a drink. He was a real drunk: when I once went to see him at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, he ate eggs and washed it down with strong rum. Then I said that I just went to look at him, to which he replied: «Look, – just do not bother to sleep.». He himself often said that his morning always begins with a bottle of good whiskey or rum; in a word, he continued and ended every day in the same way. Of course, you can imagine that our order was maintained very unimportantly, since Alexander Ivanovich did nothing, and even went to the toilet to go out.

In Russia, the sacred principle works, according to which there is no problem without a complaint, and therefore the police in our country begin to do something only when someone starts to complain about it. Of course, people came to Alexander Ivanovich who wanted to complain about something, but he always told them through a dream: «Write in detail about your problem on paper, and give it to me.». When petitioners handed over the paper to him and left with hope, all their testimony was immediately sent to the trash. Of course, very soon everyone understood that from the complaints to the district police there would be no improvements, and therefore they stopped addressing him at all. At this very time, Tonya Bozhenko tied up the friendship with the Massacre, especially those related to gastronomic and alcoholic gifts from her: Bozhenko always bore him the expensive strong alcohol, which he used directly on the workers revenge. At the same time, it must be remembered that some things our district police officer still had to do, since the superiors that existed above him at times periodically recalled their existence. He, however, was too lazy to investigate any crime, and therefore he intended to use his philological talent in order to just write them out of his head, as well as the investigation itself. Yes, this person simply took a paper and a pen, and even started writing about incidents that never really happened. He invented testimonies, invented complaints, invented protocols of interrogations, invented absolutely everything, except for real people who had to be responsible for his inventions. The thing is that even for those crimes that were completely invented by a lazy philologist-policeman, someone had to be responsible, especially if the philologist opened these crimes. In this respect, Alexander Ivanovich had no problems, for there were no moral principles either: he simply looked for a person with a rather unpleasant face, arrested him, and then declared that he was a criminal who had done all of us so much harm.

Interrogations with this policeman were also very interesting, but you can understand this only by a specific example, which I will continue to give. Here it will be about one of my friends, who was arrested on charges of theft, which was not. Yes, it was just a district policeman who thought that the teenagers had surrounded the store: he wrote the complaint of the shopkeeper himself, compiled all the case materials, and then found two random teenagers and decided to assign them his own fiction.

– So you stole the store? Confess! – shouted the policeman.

– We did not steal anything. We did not go to that store at all that day. – the suspects answered.

– Excellent, and write: «We were in that day in this store and have completely enclosed it. We are thieves and confess this.». – said the policeman, writing everything in the record of interrogation the way he wanted.

– You're lying! We did not say that! Write it correctly. – the children began to rest against.

– So we'll write: «You're an asshole, cop damn, and generally you're dead. We hate you and want to fuck your mother.».

– What are you writing?! Correct immediately! We will complain! – began to scream adolescents, to whom Alexander Ivanovich attributed his own words.

Alexander Ivanovich, however, unperturbedly wrote: «And in general. We are terrorists and Nazis. We want to kill Russian babies and rape Russian heifers. And you are an asshole! So that you die, fucking guy!».

Seeing this, my friends exclaimed in chorus: «You know, you really are an asshole and a fag!».

– Here! I told you! – answered Alexander Ivanovich.

I must say that our district policeman was even somewhat of a romantic hero, because he sometimes wrote even good poems, which added to him the charisma: the alcoholic poet who works in the police. If you began to worry about him, I must say that later he quit drinking and married a pretty girl who was ten years younger than him; the fact is that he contacted her back in those times when she was still at school, right after the end of which she became his wife. In a word, Alexander Ivanovich's moral transformation is not very consoling for a lot of people who have jailed for quite a long time because of the good imagination of the policeman-philologist. It was thanks to the assistance of Alexander Ivanovich, who safely turned a blind eye to all illegal actions of Antonina Bozhenko, without any opposition to evil, that slavery and drug addiction took root more and more in our district, while the organizers of criminal business felt wonderful. Of course, there were many attempts to punish Tonya, and our «main social teacher of the school» Nina Ivanovna even went to the heads of our district police, seeking truth, although no one there wanted to listen to her. Although no, when she first turned to the higher-ranking police chief, he listened to her with interest, immediately after that he called the Massacre and chastised him for his terrible work. Alexander Ivanovich also «explained» that Nina Ivanovna is a deeply sick person, who is in a state of senile dementia, and therefore you do not need to listen to her; after that our social educator went a couple of times there, but every time her visit ended worse and worse. During the last such visit, when Nina Ivanovna opened the door and looked into the office, saying that she had come about slaves, the police chief got angry and yelled: «Go fuck!».

Chapter fourteen.

Orgy about the autumn holidays.

As I indicated earlier, repeating myself now, things were not quite normal in our school, as well as things ordinary for my time in fact, but not in scale. In my time, some small, but still existing part of my peers, participated in various «gatherings», «inscriptions» and parties, collecting a rich harvest of heart attacks and strokes for overly impressionable well-meaning citizens, but it is unlikely that these ungodly events have reached those scales everywhere, as in our school: the feasts were truly Rabelaisian here. Antonina Bozhenko and her first-class slaves often feasted for themselves and for lower slaves, and sometimes for all other people, guided in part by a desire to have fun, and to some extent rally the collective and draw new members there, who could well wish to join the «Union» for joint celebrations. At that time, our girls were still mostly dancing and dieting for most of the year, only on holidays, having the opportunity to overeat to the point of losing the ability to move, so they feasted for feasts, often days between them counting.

The biggest feast of all was «Orgy about the autumn holidays», which, as it is easy to guess, passed during the autumn holidays, sometimes occupying more than half of their total length, but at that time, about which I speak, it took almost the entire vacancy period. Aweek before the vacation, many boxes were bought with the most harmful food, with fat and sweet dishes, food was ordered in various restaurants, bottles of wine and beer were bought, which were intended for high school students, and it was decided to organize the event right inside the school.  Before and after the incident, following the well-known reasons and consequences, the girls organized this event only and exclusively at the tony dacha, which was very remote for the complaints of the neighboring townsfolk, but at that time Tonya decided to let the whole world see the dust with special arrogance,  for next to the school was the office of our district policeman. As for the holiday, I composed the following song, now one of the most beloved in our school, and among the schoolchildren of the whole district:

How nice it is to fall on a hot day

In a big glutton garden

When wine we drink together,

It's good to argue!

Wine always pleases us,

Blessed is he who drinks it,

It frees language and gives happiness to him!

Go away, water, from here,

To the evil hypocrite-teachers,

Let the wine ring with the wine,

And the water does not belong there!

Wine will heal your pain,

Evil will disappear, fear will disappear,

On a holiday you will appear,

Once a pure strong Bacchus rules!

So drink the same wine with big sips,

As if the last one in the world that time,

Do not be on toasts, guys, mean,

Until the opacity you drink your eyes!

The school will end, life will end,

All of us grave in itself will suck,

But after that it will be, wine is still being drunk,

What in the distance the invisible will take us away!

My friend, you are not resting on your life,

You will drain this cup to the bottom,

Then fall asleep, completely calming down,

After all, this cup is full of the best wine!

At school until the wine will pour,

Until we know we will be sober,

We, the schoolboys will be happy to live here,

But soon it will end, brothers, alas!

So drink while you can drink wine, dear brother,

Have a snack – we have fresh shish kebab,

Do not doubt the doubts – you will not be rich,

So drink, so that you are accustomed to wine!

[Russian text:

Как хорошо осенним жарким днем

В саду большом чревоугодить,

Когда вино мы вместе пьем,

Как хорошо тут спорить!

Вино всегда нам угождает,

Блаженен тот, кто пьет его,

Язык оно освобождает

И дарит счастье для него!

Прочь иди, вода, отсюда,

К злым ханжам-учителям,

Пусть звенит с вином посуда,

А воде не место там!

Вино излечит вашу боль,

Исчезнет зло, исчезнет страх,

На праздник явишься ты коль,

Тут правит чистый крепкий Вакх!

Так пейте вино же глотками большими,

Как будто последний на свете то раз,

Не будьте на тосты, ребята, скупыми,

До помутненья же пейте вы глаз!

Школа окончится, жизнь оборвется,

Всех нас могила в себя засосет,

Но после то будет, вино пока пьется,

Что в дали незримые нас унесет!

Мой друг, ты о жизни своей не покоясь,

Чашу осушишь вот эту до дна,

Затем же усни ты, совсем успокоясь,

Ведь лучшим вином эта чаша полна!

В школе доколе вино будет литься,

Доколе не знать будем трезвости мы,

Школьникам весело будет тут житься,

Но скоро то кончится, братья, увы!

Так пей пока можно вино, милый брат,

Закусывай – есть у нас свежий шашлык,

Сомнений не знай – ты не будешь богат,

Так пей, чтоб скорее к вину ты привык!]

Despite the fact that this song may seem sad and hopeless, she sang extremely hilariously, as well as realized everything in our wonderful school. Honestly I must tell you that we did not have a place of sadness and longing, for our uncontrollable energy turned everything into one endless holiday and a farce that never ceased, but remained forever in your heart. I, while remaining a convinced teetotaler, did not get to this event, although I was invited there from Julia Avvakumova, who, although she did not drink wine herself, liked to look at the drunken madness of others, and herself compensated during the holidays the hard days of the diet of the dancer. On that day, three days before the holidays, which we all were waiting for, after the third lesson on the Russian language, Julia, smiling genuinely,came up to me with the words: «Marat, you would not like to pay a visit to our orgy after which  could you be accepted as a slave ?!»

– Julia, I want to apologize, but I'mnot going to become a slave. – I answered, a bit being at a loss, for then I did not know about the orgy.

«Then just come!» – she said, thrusting me a leaflet, where there was aninscription in giant letters: «The greatest drink-party in history! Food for free! Eat as much as you like!», And then leaving on business. In those days, I knew little about slavery, and therefore was very happy at the moment when Misha called me to him and told about what was going on at Antonina's holidays, forcing my hair to stand. The holiday consisted in the fact that people gathered in order to eat almost to a loss of consciousness, to show their partially naked figures, to conduct obscene conversations, to drink, only occasionally interrupted for a brief sleep.  How I passed this event on the occasion of Denis's words, for neither I nor Misha attended such events, afraid to die after them, as happened with the hero of the popular song at our school: