Collective Idiot Mode

How the KGB recruits.

The Investigative Committee (IC) has "switched on" a collective idiot again. It is typical for it, to be more precise, it happens every time its speakers open their mouths. This time confession of tut.by journalist Dmitry Bobrik about his recruitment was the reason.

On Wednesday evening Dmitry wrote on Facebook how he had been taken to the IC after the search on August 7, how he had been intimidated, pressed, blackmailed and forced into signing cooperation agreement. The next day the IC speaker said: "It's the shortest tale ever. The Investigative Committee did not recruit him."

Stop playing idiots, dear IC employees! Stop playing innocent: like we do not recruit, we do not need agents, we work hard and health problems, and these illiterate journalists just blackmail us. No way, journalists tell the truth. . You just give the keys from KGB hut if and when requested. That's it. And now everything is simple. A person is taken for interrogation; an Ivan Ivanych sits in the office, often alongside a Petr Petrovich. Instead of the interrogation they start throwing threats and putting pressure and force a person into a simple conclusion - if you want to stay alive - sign it. Otherwise, things go worse. So, don't tell us you have nothing to do with it. If it happens on your territory, you're involved.

I'd like to recall that the criminal case against mass unrest of December 19, 2010 was officially run by the Preliminary Investigation Department of GUVD of the Minsk City Executive Committee. At that, we did not see a policeman or an investigator for six months. It happened only when we were taken to court. The KGB officially had nothing to do with our criminal case. But just remember how many people later confessed in public or not that they had to sign the cooperation agreement with the KGB.

However, one does not even be jailed for them to come. They appear at your job place or at the education institution, at an investigator's office and so on. The IC is one of numerous "bases". It's understandable: if everyone the KGB intends to recruit was summoned, the queue before the building would be as long as the queue for sausages in the USSR. They do not summon, people come on their own. I only wonder who lets them into the office during working hours and agrees to buy them beer and have a walk outdoor while a law enforcement officer makes himself comfortable in someone's chair, and intimidates a passer-by. Unfortunately, people agree to cooperate for one reason or another.

The sky is the limit, and if, for example, a detainee or a student is bold enough to refuse them, it does not mean they will not come again. I will not be surprised if the next day a house manager starts recruiting. Or a plumber. By the way, there are many people with more levers of influence than KGB officers have. You should sign it, otherwise, your toilet bowl will not be repaired and you will keep flooding neighbors. It's the reason to think. Or, for example, an old biddy gives you a note in the registration office in a polyclinic: a slip for cooperation with the KGB. And then it is followed by "one contact", housing and communal service, tax authorities, a pass examination in health, and finally a cashier's department. Either you sign it or you can't buy bread. However, I should not have fantasized; it's a good idea for the KGB. To plant a KGB officer in every institution. And the plan for recruitment will be fulfilled or even beaten as it happened in 1937. And the number of staff will grow into infinity.

But then the IC has no chance to reach job places, they will be completely occupied to recruit people. Dear investigator, you'd better to get busy rather than to speak out. You still have this option. Or you can solve Rubik's Cube.

Iryna Khalip, especially for Charter97.org