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@innamosina
An unusual realization for me: when the police appeared near us at the rally in Berlin, my whole body tensed up, and I noticed that some other Russians also froze in anticipation of something bad. Perhaps we are very traumatized by how the police treated us during protests. At protests in Russia, we would take medicine, water, and a charged power bank with us to have the ability to call for help and contact a lawyer. This never happened to me, but people could be arrested and held in cold police vans (prison vehicles) for 12 hours without food, water, or access to a toilet, and then kept in police stations for a day or more. Photo by @ilannnnnnnnkatin
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@ilannnnnnnnkatin
Was very uncomfortable when they appeared as well. Unfortunately that can happen here too if one is protesting about the climate. Similar things have happened in the U.S. in the not so recent past. So while it's not as bad as Russia the fear or antagonism of Police is an all too common phenomenon in the west as well. âšī¸
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@sofi888
thanks for sharing! Was the police in Germany ever brutal to the peaceful protesters?
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@ilannnnnnnnkatin
Historically yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Benno_Ohnesorg?wprov=sfti1
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@sofi888
right! I didn't ask the question correctly. I'm sure every country has experienced smth like you mentioned. Let me ask again: are you mentally ready to spend the end of a day at the police station, or worse, to be humiliated and insulted by the police, when you are attending the nonviolent demonstration in Germany?
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@innamosina
I don't want to measure the suffering from protests between countries, haha, but people in Europe really don't know what it is like when police beat people en masse and arrest, imprison, rape and torture... I remember once before a Navalny rally my mom advised me to wear thick snowboard pants so it wouldn't hurt so much if they beat me đ . There were no very scary rallies in Saratov, and it seemed that the police in Saratov were quite normal. But when the archive of torture in Saratov prison was published, one of the most brutal ones, where putting men on the bottle is the most harmless, I realized that in Saratov I also need to be afraid
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@ilannnnnnnnkatin
It's true that people don't know. And if they do then very few of us. Thank you for speaking out about this. People need to know.
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