this is a stupid pandering kind of comment i'm sure you don't mean to make russian's give sense to but it is very anti productive because being a victim of the government is f'n senseless already. pointless to make someone feel as if they were strong for letting this be a truth for us all to fix. he was forced and not because he was tough.
No one will understand that feeling of getting out....there's nothing like it in the world litterally like lifting a 500lb weight off your back and then the fear and anxiety kicks in
@@user-sz8km9dy5v prison is prison, no matter where it is. lack of freedom is lack of freedom; being confined to a jail cell is just the same wherever you are in the world. some are worse but none are a walk in the park.
Larry Lawton talked about how when he got out he couldn't even order a sandwich. It was sensory overload because of all the choices. Then the halfway house was a horrible joke and he opted to go to prison/jail and use it as a halfway house instead.
This is just one of the semi-high-profile political revenge cases. I once got jailed overnight for walking near a half-empty beer bottle. The cops have arrest quotas, and the end of the month was coming up, so they just grabbed me and said, "That beer must be yours." They held me overnight in the most rank cell I've ever seen. There literally was a piece of dry faeces on the floor, in a cell 4x4 feet. I tried to stand and not touch anything for as long as I could, but eventually, tiredness got the better of me, so I had to sit down on the concrete bench. I left there with scabies. In the morning, they told me to sign for a fine for public intoxication, and I'd be able to walk out. Otherwise, I'd be held in that cell for 15 days until a court date.
That’s crazy and sorry you had that happen to you. It’s hard to imagine people so callous that they have no problem arresting an innocent stranger. Why is it allowed that you have to wait for 10 days to get arraigned? Was this in the US? What state?
Did you understand Cyrillic to know what it was you are signing? So many stories of Westerners in other countries asked to sign benign "confessions" or even just "legal paperwork", only to find out they literally signed their confession to crimes they never even did.
True but atleast they wont randomly send innocents to jail. Like russia. Having wrong opinion means you eighter die or be locked up. You cant really defend russia with whataboutism.
@@lucawolf1 Whilst that's true, that's like saying "It's no picnic having a cold!" to someone who's dying of cancer. Neither is nice, but they're not comparable.
Nothing new unfortunately. Us old farts have seen and read the same interviews from Soviet prisoners, many many times. Going all the way back to the revolution. It's important to keep bringing it up, so the younger generations learn too.
Most of those were debunked btw. Solzhenitsyn’s wife later admitted it was mostly fabricated. The Soviet Union instituted the greatest increase in living standards and industrial power the world has ever seen.
Bringing it up doesn't help either. At the end of the day they had been allowed to continue terrorize half of europe after WW2 despite the fact that they were the same as the third reich and would have given a lot to work together up to the point they arrived in berlin. And who can blame a system that never changes if it always worked out.
Well Pereverzin said many times he is innocent, but he could easily share if he knew Khodorkovsky, if Khodorkovsky was also innocent and why does he think so - what was he doing in that company and how did people work there - he is now in free country so he should say how does the communism arise - its now in france, canada and biden's mind.
a) He's being kept in solitary confinement for the maximum amount of years possible by Norwegian law. Solitary confinement has officially been recognized as a form of torture (his isn't for a variety of reasons). By Norwegian standards, his sentence is very harsh. b) Norway is a country that sets higher standards for itself than a russian penal colony. c) Norway has, on a worldwide scale, an extremely low recidivism rate (rate at which criminals end up back in prison after release). They also save tons of money and bureaucracy on not running a prison system that is designed to suck. Clearly their system is working.
That's because the Norwegian jail system has a purpose of rehabilitating prisoners and either make them into functional members of society, or keep them locked in for a long period of time. It's what prison should be by a definition. Russian system however, is designed to keep the ruling class in tighter control, and the prisoner is not to be considered a person.... So, yeah.... It's damn near impossible to even consider humanity as an approach. I always find it tragicomical when the leaders of the countries, corrupted to the point of absolute debauchery, talk about democracy... Democracy can only be achieved by a truly moral human being. In a corrupted society, it's a paradox and a mockery by itself.
I’m glad this man is able to move on and still have an upbeat personality. It’s such a crime this keeps happening and sadly, I don’t see this ever stopping anytime soon.
Mr. Pereverzin was no mere mid-manager employee of Yukos. He was instrumental in the acquisition of Yukos by the bank Menatep, which Khodorkovsky was Chairman of. He personally acted for Menatep on 8 December 1995 in the controversial purchase of Yukos. I'm not saying he is guilty as charged, however it is somewhat disingenuous for him to make out that he was a mere pawn.
My experience of a similar country is that the mentality is : everybody is guilty of something to a degree, which is a useful, justice can never be wrong
There is love in Russia with creation of documents, because even if facts are against documents, documents will survive and maybe someone will treat them as facts. So we will never know.
i met a political prison from russia in a nursing home in the UK in 1999. he had no fingernails or toe nails and his testicules had been electricuted . they were large and badly burned. he has very bad scaring all over him.he struggled when the door was closed to his room. he had a bottle of vodka a night to knock him out to stop him waking and screaming out. when we first had him he attacked us screaming about being in a cell and being beaten..after that his door was left open and he got up when he was ready. evenutally he talked and we all just cried to hear what happened to him..he could speak five languages.. he came to stay at the nursing home to recouperated after his release. ive never in my life seen such pain in a mans voice as his. he smiled every morning and thanked us for his care. .A once in a life time chance to meet a very brave man. evenually he felt he could finally have a home of his own and with support left. i will never forget him to this day.
I met a similar man who had survived 4yrs in bergan- belsen I was in a drs waiting room when his sleeve rode up his arm exposing a tattooed # I began to cry ( I was a history nut and had read alot about WW2 I grew up in a religious cult and was told we would be put in camps like the jews / gypsies had of WW2 (I. Had basically began prepping myself for it mentally tht we were to be put in camps because of cults beliefs) I was embarrassed i started to cry then i explained my childhood simply and me and the gentleman and I began talking he was very surprised someone of my generation knew so much but i reminded him of cults statement about camps he had nerve damage in hands & feet from standing in the cold in Poland in basically thin rags and shoes with holes in the bottom he had been forced to march I forget how far in the cold by the Kapo's / nazis to prevent prisoners being seized by the Americans/ British or Russians but he said by far the worst was the mental physically you can heal but mentally thoughts just bounce around like a rubber ball yrs before I had cared for as a CNAXa former high level Klan leader who was starting to have dementia like issues he absolutely refused to allow us to turn off the lights in his room or close his door I asked why he informed me ( in nasty language) tht in the dark he could feel and see afro Americans coming for him and they were part of the reason his mind was going and when it was dark they formed a circle around his bed and told him "they was waiting on him" this nursing home was near were Mississippi burning happened it still had a klan presence even the early 90's the souls of the ppl you torture will come for you
What is his name? About the burnt balls, it looks very much like the truth. To do this, they use a field phone called tapik (ta - 57). It is actively used in Russian police departments, this torture is called "calling Putin"
На самом деле грустно осознавать, что именно это происходит в нашей стране. И они никогда это не исправят, это все равно, что стоять 7 лет в аду, радуясь тому, что он может жить, не страдая даже больше, чем ему пришлось пережить, потому что российская полиция никогда не будет добра к тебе, когда ты попадешь туда, они примут тебя как животное, а не как это. Все, что может превратить твою жвою жизнь в дерьмо. 😬😬😬
I feel so sorry for this man...terrible to be serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Unfortunetly in Russia not much has changed since the USSR days, maybe except fashion and technology...
200 billion stolen from Russia and laundered via european danske banks. Nothing to see here... Everyone is innocent and who knew too much are murdered by Western countries.
@@BridgesDontFly The prosecution literally didn't even present any evidence against him except a labor book saying he worked for Yukos previously. No records of his sales, no proof that any embezzlement occurred. Nothing. He had never met the CEO of the company or even the other manager they accused of being his co-conspirator. The crime itself was literally impossible for him to have done because he didn't ever have access to 13 billion dollars worth of sales of crude oil in the time he worked there. The case was a sham, it certainly wouldn't meet the standards for proof in the U.S. How would you feel if my only evidence for accusing YOU of a crime was that you worked at the same company as a murderer?
I travelled across Russia on my own during the winter. I was in Vladimir. I was in the bus station. I never met more hospitable people than ordinary Russians, who would do everything they could to help you on your travels. Love Russian people. Remember that the regime and the jailers are a criminal gang, stealing from ordinary Russians and exploiting them. Imagine the terror of being an innocent person suddnely caught up into that system. And to _know_ that your jailors ( that is, these sociopaths and psychopaths that are recruited as jailors ) also know that you are innocent, but will mistreat you anyway because they don't have the brain circuitry for empathy. And that at any moment, even if you haven't done anything wrong, if they are having a bad day they might take it out on you, and there is nothing you can do about it.
That is the same situation in Romania except the people are mostly brown and the average national iq is 82, the lowest in europe like albania much unlike the russians.
That is the same situation in Romania except the people are mostly mud skinned and the average national iq is 82, the lowest in europe like albania much unlike the russians.
That is the same situation in Romania except the people are mostly dark skinned and the average national iq is 82, the lowest in europe like albania much unlike the russians.
I'm always impressed when i hear someone who lives outside the English speaking world gain a perfectly working mastery of my country's language. I could never do that. Retaining their native langua accent makesxit all the more enjoyable to hear.
Some Oligarch framed him to take the fall for his own crime. People who whine about how bad the US is should watch this. Bethany Griner was humbled (at first).
@@zivkovicable it does. Somewhere deep in south too, of course. But overthere is everywhere like that. And whether you are guilty or not if you are put in prison they will literally beat the confession out of you, that us if some powerful people or just people with food connections want you gona for whatever reason, that is a common practice there. Just the same way rhis guy was out there because someone else wanned rhst business or wanned to steal that money and they jist made him a scapegoat. Everything is for sale and i mean Everything. You have 0 rights and you are not human there, you are just meat. In most of the places its like exactly like this. I mean you know what they did to the guy who was trying to replace putin right? Put in prison and ended up killing him, poisoning. russia is not a good place to be in prison or live there. I hope the send more of my tax money to help Ukraine to withstand their invasion and their regime. Russia basically is like north korea but with little more freedom.
@@Asger21 "At least in that aspect", meaning specifically regarding complaints. Proper grammar is supposed to lessen contextual issues such as this, but the reader has to pick up on them. :)
Well, the issue is that you have competitors: Prosecutor's Office, may be the Investigative Committee and so on. Ideally they would be glad to compromise another law enforcement agency in the race of power. But practically, especially in the poor regions, local law enforcement agencies can be intertwined by the corruption, so these complaints would not be a big problem. But there's another issue: it's still a bureaucracy. And you have to deal with this paper, and even if you could just throw it off, it still annoys you
I spent a decent amount of my childhood in Russia, and love the Russian people. They're kind, genuine and very welcoming! But you constantly live with the thought in the back of your head that something like this can happen, as the Russian government doesn't report to anyone, they don't owe their citizens an explanation.
I know a man who works in a Russian prison and he told stories like, for example, a man who escaped was tied to a car and rolled along the roads after which his kidneys were completely beaten off. There are many stories of how people were simply not treated and left to die.
I can't believe I hadn't heard about Navalny's death until now. I knew he'd come close several times but I never heard he actually died this year. How sad.
This reminds me so much of what it was like to be a student at Pilgrim’s Rest Boarding School in Kentucky. Children can be tortured but can’t get lawyers.
most members of that culture are the worst people on earth. cruel, sadistic and hateful, many of them serial abusers, which is normalized and ironically never punished. yes, the prison transformed them from somewhat normal to that, but when im getting pressed by a guy outside a store at night idgaf what his tragic backstory is. stop idealizing them, they would do the same if they were the jailers
Same. I did time for a year. Unfortunately I violated probation, but thankfully I only spent a week in jail. I was assigned to a better public defender and a new judge had been voted in for my court, so I was lucky to have probation dismissed and get out the next day. “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty! Free at last!” 😊
seems very vanilla. as he said at the end this story is nothing compared to some of the tortures and rapes used in russian colonies on systematic basis.
Given how criminal Yukos was, as well as any major Russian company in the privatization era, I doubt this guy was 100% innocent. Yukos was caught commiting major fraud to avoid taxes. I bet he's right that he was basically a politically motivated scapegoat for Oligarchs, but it's impossible to overstate how crooked these companies are and without knowing exactly what he did there it's not hard to believe a mere manager could be involved in the crime and end up offered up as the mastermind to save the real top dog. Not saying this dude is lying 100%, but this doesn't pass the sniff test when you read up on the post-privatization era of Russia and how corrupt the new private companies were.
How criminal Yukos was? Could you explain? Rosneft under management Putin's friends paid less taxes as Yukos paid, when oil prices were at least twice lower! You know why?
He wasn’t completely innocent, and he did associate with criminals. However, he became the fall guy in comparison to those that really should have been in prison.
I enjoy these programs but kind of wish the format was a bit different…the constant switching to the VHS style chapter breaks is distracting (for future reference)
I worked in China near the Chinese-Russian-North Korea border for some time and we always played this game of "which would be the worst prison to be sent to". Everyone was united on this: Russia
having read the accounts of the people that managed to escape North Korean death camps (calling them "prisons" is an insult to prisons, even as terrible as the Russian ones), I'm really not sure why they would say that.
Sorry, I don't feel bad for him at all, considering he along with his boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky engaged in severe corruption and the theft and sale of Russia's state assets for pennies on the dollar, during country's the transition from communism to capitalism. During that time, the life expectancy of Russian men dropped to 57 and many families could barely afford to eat. The state currency became so worthless teachers would get paid in bottles of vodka instead of money. Khodorkovsky became the richest man in Russia and an oligarch by using mafia type tactics to pillage the state's economy for the benefit of himself and cronies like Pereverzin. The oligarchs are what allowed Yeltsin to stay in power, despite him being an unpopular corrupt alcoholic who destroyed Russia's economy; the oligarchs bankrolled his reelection. Then Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor on condition he would not go after Yeltsin or his family. Putin allowed all the Yeltsin era oligarchs to keep their stolen assets as long as they pledged fealty to him. Khodorkovsky refused since he thought as Russia's richest man, he could dictate terms to Putin. However, Putin charged him for corruption (which he was most certainly guilty of) along with Pereverzin and the rest of the cronies at Yukos. These men inadvertently got Putin to succeed to the presidency, thinking they could control him like they did with Yeltsin. How poetic their corrupt and evil scheme backfired on them and landed them in prison. Pereverzin is no persecuted dissident and martyr for human rights. Putting lipstick on a pig won't make it attractive.
If you read his book "The Prisoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia" you would write such a strange comment. Pereverzin has been sent to prizon under completely false charges. Khodorkovsky has never ever been charged for corruption and you did not evern mention formal charges in Khodorkovsky case.
@@user-jq9nv8ys1call of the oligarchs along with their friends pillaged our country in the 90s. Khodor and Pereverzin are sleazy thieves, but there are some thieves just like them left within the government because they're loyal to Putin. These guys weren't, and lost it all. As a reminder to all the powerful people in Russia what would happen if they cross the government somehow. No person working in such an establishment was innocent, except for the cleaning lady if she didn't have to clean blood from the carpets, lol.
@@user-jq9nv8ys1cpeople were cut into pieces and buried for owning a single vodka plant, do you really think these high rollers are not complicit in assassinations, bribery and corruption?
He might be complicit in actual assassinations. Even if he isn't, he is complicit in MAJOR corruption and bribery. More like a wolf in sheep's clothing
You say that as if the American left didn't fully support Russia for _decades_ during the most brutal and totalitarian period of its history. Lmao Grow up.
you want people to be forced to confess crimes they did not commit? I wonder how long a strong and brave person like you can withstand torture? One minute - you be a hero! 5 seconds .... That is how crime works
sounds a lot like most jails to me truth be known. The comment about America being a free society comparatively. Yes, much to the dismay of the owners.
I completely disagree with you. I used to be a correctional officer. None of that stuff would be legal federally, or in the state that I worked at you would be arrested and fired right away for beating up inmates for no reason also in the United States, you have a trial Before you’re sent to prison. All the things he’s talking about or not legally allowed in the United States.
Just some unbiased, wikipedia information here: He was a manager for one of the Russian oligarchs oil companies Yukos, where the head of that company had political ambitions. Yukos, like any other oil company, was extremely corrupt, responsible for killing and executing their rivals. Maybe you've heard of owner - Mikhail xodorkovskiy. Long story short, this isn't your "typical" prisoner story. Do your own research people
@@user-jq9nv8ys1cpeople in Russia were dismembered and buried for owning a single vodka plant. Do you really think people from yukos aren't complicit in such trivial crimes if there are billions of dollars at stake? Lol.
"This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion " Ah yes... "Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
Yukos was shady as any other company in Russia at that time. If you where a business man in those times, it meant you had direct ties to organized crime.
Not true! The more shady oil company in Russia were Rosneft and Surgutnentegaz. Yukos was the first company to be published the ownershiship structure and audit by PWC.
Also, Khodorkovsky at least built kindergartens, sport fields, and roads. That was one of the reasons he was targeted: he was becoming quite popular among the populace, and as one of the most wealthy people in the country, could potentially fund his own successful political campaign.
@@AeSyrNation He killed a city mayor which tried to force him to pay the workers who were starving without any payment for 6 months at that time. the mayor also went on the hunger strike with the workers. >Petukhov went on a hunger strike with demands: to initiate a criminal case in connection with the failure of Yukos to pay taxes in large amounts in 1996-1998, to remove the chief of the tax inspectorate of Nefteyugansk and the head of the tax inspection of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, to pay back the accumulated arrears in the amount of 1.2 trillion non-denominated rubles, stop interfering in the activities of local authorities of Nefteyugansk by Yukos >A few days after the end of the hunger strike, on the morning of June 26, 1998, on his way to work, Petukhov was shot near the city administration building. His guard was also wounded in the shooting. The murder occurred on the birthday of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which many observers saw as a gift for the Russian businessman's birthday
This guy's calm toughness is incredible.
He makes it look easy.
@@eugenetswongRussians are very tough
this is a stupid pandering kind of comment i'm sure you don't mean to make russian's give sense to but it is very anti productive because being a victim of the government is f'n senseless already. pointless to make someone feel as if they were strong for letting this be a truth for us all to fix. he was forced and not because he was tough.
It's what makes Russians, Russian.
@Joe-ym6bw they R different. This one is exceptionally calm. My guess would be that one you survive 11 y there are pretty calm
No one will understand that feeling of getting out....there's nothing like it in the world litterally like lifting a 500lb weight off your back and then the fear and anxiety kicks in
I understand it bud there’s a lot more like me too so I wouldn’t say no one
We’re was you in prison? Don’t tell me the uk 🇬🇧
@@user-sz8km9dy5v prison is prison, no matter where it is. lack of freedom is lack of freedom; being confined to a jail cell is just the same wherever you are in the world. some are worse but none are a walk in the park.
Larry Lawton talked about how when he got out he couldn't even order a sandwich. It was sensory overload because of all the choices. Then the halfway house was a horrible joke and he opted to go to prison/jail and use it as a halfway house instead.
Hundreds of thousand of people , probably millions understand actually lol that’s kind of the problem
6 men share one shower head once a week for 15 minutes to wash themselves and wash clothes. Damn.
Luck it’s cold there so they don’t have to really worry 😂
@@humanOilslick cold when? in the winter? of course it is. in the summer? it's hot. or do you think russia is engulfed in snow all year round?
@@hurmane.8593 most year 😂
@@humanOilslick tell me you've never been/lived in russia without telling me
@@humanOilslickignorant
This is just one of the semi-high-profile political revenge cases.
I once got jailed overnight for walking near a half-empty beer bottle. The cops have arrest quotas, and the end of the month was coming up, so they just grabbed me and said, "That beer must be yours."
They held me overnight in the most rank cell I've ever seen. There literally was a piece of dry faeces on the floor, in a cell 4x4 feet. I tried to stand and not touch anything for as long as I could, but eventually, tiredness got the better of me, so I had to sit down on the concrete bench.
I left there with scabies.
In the morning, they told me to sign for a fine for public intoxication, and I'd be able to walk out.
Otherwise, I'd be held in that cell for 15 days until a court date.
That’s crazy and sorry you had that happen to you. It’s hard to imagine people so callous that they have no problem arresting an innocent stranger. Why is it allowed that you have to wait for 10 days to get arraigned? Was this in the US? What state?
@@klettersteig599 it was in Russia🤷♂️ they can legally hold you for up to 15 days in jail before seeing a judge
In a true kleptocracy, thieves run the show while you go to jail for not stealing anything.
Did you understand Cyrillic to know what it was you are signing?
So many stories of Westerners in other countries asked to sign benign "confessions" or even just "legal paperwork", only to find out they literally signed their confession to crimes they never even did.
@@RogueBoyScout I'm from there
we never realize how good we have it untill u hear about mother russia
Thank God the America prison system is a much better example for everyone else to follow.
America ain’t no paradise either
True but atleast they wont randomly send innocents to jail. Like russia. Having wrong opinion means you eighter die or be locked up.
You cant really defend russia with whataboutism.
why should criminals have it good? Apart from that, the West is far more degenerate, where perversions are celebrated as the norm
@@lucawolf1 Whilst that's true, that's like saying "It's no picnic having a cold!" to someone who's dying of cancer. Neither is nice, but they're not comparable.
Nothing new unfortunately. Us old farts have seen and read the same interviews from Soviet prisoners, many many times. Going all the way back to the revolution.
It's important to keep bringing it up, so the younger generations learn too.
Most of those were debunked btw. Solzhenitsyn’s wife later admitted it was mostly fabricated. The Soviet Union instituted the greatest increase in living standards and industrial power the world has ever seen.
Bringing it up doesn't help either.
At the end of the day they had been allowed to continue terrorize half of europe after WW2 despite the fact that they were the same as the third reich and would have given a lot to work together up to the point they arrived in berlin.
And who can blame a system that never changes if it always worked out.
"Learn".. Reading your ((newspapers)) is not learning.
Seems the russkibots are as effective and competent as their army 😅
@@VikingTeddy Go worship your rabbis American
See also: "Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag"
70 years later, and so little has changed in the Russian prison system
Russia will never change. It's basically an enormous self-regulating and self-perpetuating dysgenics experiment.
Didn't they made a movie about it
Omg, there is a whole elaborate prison culture. Not just tattoos, but giving party before you leave, burning prison clothes afterwards, etc.
Well Pereverzin said many times he is innocent, but he could easily share if he knew Khodorkovsky, if Khodorkovsky was also innocent and why does he think so - what was he doing in that company and how did people work there - he is now in free country so he should say how does the communism arise - its now in france, canada and biden's mind.
@@boris2997Yes, I think it was a TV movie from the early 80’s
Meanwhile Anders Breivik:
*sues norway for inhumane treatment and asks for a playstation*
That speaks volumes on Norway as a country.
You're missing the point though
@@DomnulSarb i have no point
a) He's being kept in solitary confinement for the maximum amount of years possible by Norwegian law. Solitary confinement has officially been recognized as a form of torture (his isn't for a variety of reasons). By Norwegian standards, his sentence is very harsh.
b) Norway is a country that sets higher standards for itself than a russian penal colony.
c) Norway has, on a worldwide scale, an extremely low recidivism rate (rate at which criminals end up back in prison after release). They also save tons of money and bureaucracy on not running a prison system that is designed to suck.
Clearly their system is working.
That's because the Norwegian jail system has a purpose of rehabilitating prisoners and either make them into functional members of society, or keep them locked in for a long period of time. It's what prison should be by a definition.
Russian system however, is designed to keep the ruling class in tighter control, and the prisoner is not to be considered a person.... So, yeah.... It's damn near impossible to even consider humanity as an approach.
I always find it tragicomical when the leaders of the countries, corrupted to the point of absolute debauchery, talk about democracy... Democracy can only be achieved by a truly moral human being. In a corrupted society, it's a paradox and a mockery by itself.
I’m glad this man is able to move on and still have an upbeat personality.
It’s such a crime this keeps happening and sadly, I don’t see this ever stopping anytime soon.
Mr. Pereverzin was no mere mid-manager employee of Yukos.
He was instrumental in the acquisition of Yukos by the bank Menatep, which Khodorkovsky was Chairman of. He personally acted for Menatep on 8 December 1995 in the controversial purchase of Yukos.
I'm not saying he is guilty as charged, however it is somewhat disingenuous for him to make out that he was a mere pawn.
Exactly. And to be honest, there was nothing honest about Russian business practices on that level in the 1990s
Exactly lol this is propaganda
My experience of a similar country is that the mentality is : everybody is guilty of something to a degree, which is a useful, justice can never be wrong
+15 rubles
There is love in Russia with creation of documents, because even if facts are against documents, documents will survive and maybe someone will treat them as facts. So we will never know.
i met a political prison from russia in a nursing home in the UK in 1999. he had no fingernails or toe nails and his testicules had been electricuted . they were large and badly burned. he has very bad scaring all over him.he struggled when the door was closed to his room. he had a bottle of vodka a night to knock him out to stop him waking and screaming out. when we first had him he attacked us screaming about being in a cell and being beaten..after that his door was left open and he got up when he was ready. evenutally he talked and we all just cried to hear what happened to him..he could speak five languages.. he came to stay at the nursing home to recouperated after his release. ive never in my life seen such pain in a mans voice as his. he smiled every morning and thanked us for his care. .A once in a life time chance to meet a very brave man. evenually he felt he could finally have a home of his own and with support left. i will never forget him to this day.
I met a similar man who had survived 4yrs in bergan- belsen I was in a drs waiting room when his sleeve rode up his arm exposing a tattooed # I began to cry ( I was a history nut and had read alot about WW2 I grew up in a religious cult and was told we would be put in camps like the jews / gypsies had of WW2 (I. Had basically began prepping myself for it mentally tht we were to be put in camps because of cults beliefs) I was embarrassed i started to cry then i explained my childhood simply and me and the gentleman and I began talking he was very surprised someone of my generation knew so much but i reminded him of cults statement about camps he had nerve damage in hands & feet from standing in the cold in Poland in basically thin rags and shoes with holes in the bottom he had been forced to march I forget how far in the cold by the Kapo's / nazis to prevent prisoners being seized by the Americans/ British or Russians but he said by far the worst was the mental physically you can heal but mentally thoughts just bounce around like a rubber ball yrs before I had cared for as a CNAXa former high level Klan leader who was starting to have dementia like issues he absolutely refused to allow us to turn off the lights in his room or close his door I asked why he informed me ( in nasty language) tht in the dark he could feel and see afro Americans coming for him and they were part of the reason his mind was going and when it was dark they formed a circle around his bed and told him "they was waiting on him" this nursing home was near were Mississippi burning happened it still had a klan presence even the early 90's the souls of the ppl you torture will come for you
What is his name?
About the burnt balls, it looks very much like the truth. To do this, they use a field phone called tapik (ta - 57). It is actively used in Russian police departments, this torture is called "calling Putin"
what does hudge mean?
@@45johngalt thats all you have to say really. writen on a phone and it must have changed the spelling. changed just for you dear lol
Russian prisons no joke
Reminds me of that scene in "The Wire".
"This is not prison. This is nothing"
-- Sergei
I don’t need you. I don’t need f***ing canteen
Watch Gulag story ….
На самом деле грустно осознавать, что именно это происходит в нашей стране. И они никогда это не исправят, это все равно, что стоять 7 лет в аду, радуясь тому, что он может жить, не страдая даже больше, чем ему пришлось пережить, потому что российская полиция никогда не будет добра к тебе, когда ты попадешь туда, они примут тебя как животное, а не как это. Все, что может превратить твою жвою жизнь в дерьмо. 😬😬😬
Наша полиция даже если ты ничего не сделал по определению относится к обычному человеку с нескрываемой неприязнью.
Interesting and simple. They needed a fall guy. To officially acquire the oil.
It’s never that simple
Shame on you guys for not linking his book. I would read this book. I’m glad he mentioned he wrote one.
His book is linked in the video description...
@@galactictomato1434now it is.
It's both linked and mentioned in the video, right at the end, they even show the cover and he recommends it to all viewers.
@@seidenstickerj I know it’s mentioned. That’s why I’m asking for a link. I finally got one.
The reel noises between each cut really take away from the intensity of the interview.
I feel so sorry for this man...terrible to be serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Unfortunetly in Russia not much has changed since the USSR days, maybe except fashion and technology...
Didn't commit ehh?
200 billion stolen from Russia and laundered via european danske banks.
Nothing to see here... Everyone is innocent and who knew too much are murdered by Western countries.
The communism went away, and the authoritarianism didn’t.
@@BridgesDontFly The prosecution literally didn't even present any evidence against him except a labor book saying he worked for Yukos previously. No records of his sales, no proof that any embezzlement occurred. Nothing. He had never met the CEO of the company or even the other manager they accused of being his co-conspirator. The crime itself was literally impossible for him to have done because he didn't ever have access to 13 billion dollars worth of sales of crude oil in the time he worked there. The case was a sham, it certainly wouldn't meet the standards for proof in the U.S. How would you feel if my only evidence for accusing YOU of a crime was that you worked at the same company as a murderer?
@@brody3166
This happens often in the US.
He's telling ALL OF US, to BE THANKFUL FOR ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE NOW. life, health, food, warm shelter, comfort, love, Etc... ❤ thanks ❤
PLEASE Make an episode of rehabilitation camps
I travelled across Russia on my own during the winter. I was in Vladimir. I was in the bus station. I never met more hospitable people than ordinary Russians, who would do everything they could to help you on your travels. Love Russian people. Remember that the regime and the jailers are a criminal gang, stealing from ordinary Russians and exploiting them. Imagine the terror of being an innocent person suddnely caught up into that system. And to _know_ that your jailors ( that is, these sociopaths and psychopaths that are recruited as jailors ) also know that you are innocent, but will mistreat you anyway because they don't have the brain circuitry for empathy. And that at any moment, even if you haven't done anything wrong, if they are having a bad day they might take it out on you, and there is nothing you can do about it.
That is the same situation in Romania except the people are mostly brown and the average national iq is 82, the lowest in europe like albania much unlike the russians.
That is the same situation in Romania except the people are mostly mud skinned and the average national iq is 82, the lowest in europe like albania much unlike the russians.
That is the same situation in Romania except the people are mostly dark skinned and the average national iq is 82, the lowest in europe like albania much unlike the russians.
Remember that scene in "The Wire"?
"This is not prison. This is nothing."
--- Sergie
Hahaha! How long could you stay in "not a prizon"? one or three minutes?
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c It's a line from a TV show. A Russian guy is saying this about American prison. Never mind 🤫
@@user-jq9nv8ys1creading comprehension non existent
I was thinking of that exact scene as I watched this.
I did eight years here in Australia back in the 90s and 6 of those years was Max security. After watching this, I have nothing to complain about!!!!
Just ordered his book. What a story!
😭😭😭 nah convicted for stealing ALL the oil is crazy
I'm always impressed when i hear someone who lives outside the English speaking world gain a perfectly working mastery of my country's language. I could never do that. Retaining their native langua accent makesxit all the more enjoyable to hear.
I love this Channel, pls make a Video about a Chinese Jail
No one ever gets out or they would.
@@oregonsdank thats scary af i think its look like a SquidGame 💀
I need more videos on western jails to balance out that propaganda.
@@tyrese21kendrick49I mean have you ever heard about Chinese prison? Nobody talking about them.
Some Oligarch framed him to take the fall for his own crime. People who whine about how bad the US is should watch this. Bethany Griner was humbled (at first).
Undisputed movies gave me all the info I need to know about russian prisons
😂 I never seen past the first one with Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames.
@@Nick_B_Bad te second one is pretty solid as well
Eipstein would have been glad to hear your story.
I feel bad for this man Russian prisons are tough he seems like a decent guy
yes,this one is called documentary .bravo .
Torturing prisoners is not good. Especially when a prisoner who is innocent.
*Laughs in american prison*
Its normal in russia, always has been
@@JohnDoe-lx5rm While not quite on the same level, the USA has some terrible prisons too by first world standards..
@@zivkovicable it does. Somewhere deep in south too, of course. But overthere is everywhere like that. And whether you are guilty or not if you are put in prison they will literally beat the confession out of you, that us if some powerful people or just people with food connections want you gona for whatever reason, that is a common practice there. Just the same way rhis guy was out there because someone else wanned rhst business or wanned to steal that money and they jist made him a scapegoat. Everything is for sale and i mean Everything. You have 0 rights and you are not human there, you are just meat. In most of the places its like exactly like this. I mean you know what they did to the guy who was trying to replace putin right? Put in prison and ended up killing him, poisoning. russia is not a good place to be in prison or live there. I hope the send more of my tax money to help Ukraine to withstand their invasion and their regime. Russia basically is like north korea but with little more freedom.
Innocent? 😂 He was working on the one of the worst and bloodiest oligarch - Khodorkovsky
I wonder why the colonies were so nervous about the complaints, couldn't they censor the mail?
Prisoners give them to their lawyers, or directly to the court.
@@CtOlaf I'm surprised they're allowed to do that. At least in that aspect, it seems like a fair justice system.
@@ShermanT.PotterFair???😂😂😂
So Navalny was treated kind of fairly?
@@Asger21 "At least in that aspect", meaning specifically regarding complaints. Proper grammar is supposed to lessen contextual issues such as this, but the reader has to pick up on them. :)
Well, the issue is that you have competitors: Prosecutor's Office, may be the Investigative Committee and so on. Ideally they would be glad to compromise another law enforcement agency in the race of power. But practically, especially in the poor regions, local law enforcement agencies can be intertwined by the corruption, so these complaints would not be a big problem. But there's another issue: it's still a bureaucracy. And you have to deal with this paper, and even if you could just throw it off, it still annoys you
I spent a decent amount of my childhood in Russia, and love the Russian people. They're kind, genuine and very welcoming! But you constantly live with the thought in the back of your head that something like this can happen, as the Russian government doesn't report to anyone, they don't owe their citizens an explanation.
Imagine being a scapegoat for an oligarch. Meanwhile for 7 years they were on their $100 million yacht and 20 hot playthings.
Pariahs
Great story, sad, eye opening. ThankYou from Australia ❤
The oil company broke the cardinal sin of not cutting Putin in on the deals.
I know a man who works in a Russian prison and he told stories like, for example, a man who escaped was tied to a car and rolled along the roads after which his kidneys were completely beaten off. There are many stories of how people were simply not treated and left to die.
I can't believe I hadn't heard about Navalny's death until now. I knew he'd come close several times but I never heard he actually died this year. How sad.
Navalny was murdered by prisoners...
have you seen his ads from like 15 years ago?
Navalny the MI6 agent? That guy?
How could you not have heard of Alexei Navalny's death until now?
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c he was murdered by Putin
Really enjoyed listening to this clever and composed man.
Overpaid Russian adds flooding the comments.
Yes, and payment is good
The troll farms are out in full force 😂
But all of your comments here is about Russia. Who's the bot?
This reminds me so much of what it was like to be a student at Pilgrim’s Rest Boarding School in Kentucky. Children can be tortured but can’t get lawyers.
他英文真好，基本都能听清楚，口音并不影响理解
It's certainly better than yours😅
@@axeavier that went right over your head didn't it.
你好同志
阴阳怪气挺没意思的，一个颗没有赞美只有挑剔的心很可悲
watched it through the whole way, what a wonderful story honestly
The Russian bots and UIs love these videos 🤣
it makes them crazy!
No such thing as russian bots that's an American propaganda n lies made up by Cia to discredit anything russian lmao
Great narration
For a second there I thought the thumbnail said “schizo guard”
Cheeky clickbait. They knew what they were doing lol.
How sorry I am that you had to suffer so horribly as an innocent and good man. God bless you.
This guy was more than just a middle manager, a lot more
I was in gulags several times. Harsh place. Inhumane
great project.
especially for those who liked A Million Little Pieces...🤣
He discribe all details in his book, where every single word is true...
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c innocence project is waiting for his application 😅
Oh, I've been in Melechevo Colony, nice enough place, lots of pine, next to town, still wouldn't recommend staying tho.
My name is Vladimir, but everyone calls me Georgio
I'm happy you made it out!
Every prisoner ever:
I'm innocent, bro.
Where did you heard such a boolsheet? Have you been in prison?
excellent video
This is why i respect the Voryz V Zakone. They started their organization because of the hardships that they endured in prison.
They been around WAy before that they were involved with the russian revolution and even before that the first crowned vor was in 1912
@@ThomasMorrish-b1s Wow, I didn't know that. I know a lot of Russians especially the ones that I work with in tech.
most members of that culture are the worst people on earth. cruel, sadistic and hateful, many of them serial abusers, which is normalized and ironically never punished. yes, the prison transformed them from somewhat normal to that, but when im getting pressed by a guy outside a store at night idgaf what his tragic backstory is. stop idealizing them, they would do the same if they were the jailers
Getting out of county jail after 10 months in America is still the best feeling in the world that I've felt.
Mogs me, I didn't leave my house once in 2024.
Same. I did time for a year. Unfortunately I violated probation, but thankfully I only spent a week in jail. I was assigned to a better public defender and a new judge had been voted in for my court, so I was lucky to have probation dismissed and get out the next day. “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty! Free at last!” 😊
This guy's prison experience seems like daycare compared to the "Polar Wolf" penal colony in the Arctic that Navalny was tortured and killed in.
Russians are so calm and talk quietly
seems very vanilla. as he said at the end this story is nothing compared to some of the tortures and rapes used in russian colonies on systematic basis.
What a fantastic human being.
Given how criminal Yukos was, as well as any major Russian company in the privatization era, I doubt this guy was 100% innocent. Yukos was caught commiting major fraud to avoid taxes. I bet he's right that he was basically a politically motivated scapegoat for Oligarchs, but it's impossible to overstate how crooked these companies are and without knowing exactly what he did there it's not hard to believe a mere manager could be involved in the crime and end up offered up as the mastermind to save the real top dog.
Not saying this dude is lying 100%, but this doesn't pass the sniff test when you read up on the post-privatization era of Russia and how corrupt the new private companies were.
not true, this dude has nothing to do with oligarchs and workin now as a track driver in Germany...
How criminal Yukos was? Could you explain? Rosneft under management Putin's friends paid less taxes as Yukos paid, when oil prices were at least twice lower! You know why?
He wasn’t completely innocent, and he did associate with criminals. However, he became the fall guy in comparison to those that really should have been in prison.
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c what's a track driver
I enjoy these programs but kind of wish the format was a bit different…the constant switching to the VHS style chapter breaks is distracting (for future reference)
I worked in China near the Chinese-Russian-North Korea border for some time and we always played this game of "which would be the worst prison to be sent to". Everyone was united on this: Russia
having read the accounts of the people that managed to escape North Korean death camps (calling them "prisons" is an insult to prisons, even as terrible as the Russian ones), I'm really not sure why they would say that.
@@igorbednarski8048nk has gotta be worse
I think north korea is worse, they barely get any food
2:00 Handsome guy😌 Seems like a cool guy from the interview
Is he giving you a chubby you silly butt pirate?
The balls on this man to get jumped on purpose by 5 people just to get transfered. Hope he is having a good life now
Excellent and sad story
Now may you let us know how Guantanamo works?
the VHS timer/PLAY effect is kinda silly, at least change the time when u edit the cuts ...
Excellent work 👏
Next do Guantanamo bay 👍
Good God, I could've never survived that.
Well, it was nice knowing this guy.
If he's in an american channel he's probably very safe.
There are thousands of innocent people in Russian prisons. Its a tragedy
Not this guy tho
Meanwhile the UK is arresting people for their tweets 🤣
We need prisons like this in the uk, criminals have nothing to fear with the current system
Scary stuff
Sorry, I don't feel bad for him at all, considering he along with his boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky engaged in severe corruption and the theft and sale of Russia's state assets for pennies on the dollar, during country's the transition from communism to capitalism. During that time, the life expectancy of Russian men dropped to 57 and many families could barely afford to eat. The state currency became so worthless teachers would get paid in bottles of vodka instead of money. Khodorkovsky became the richest man in Russia and an oligarch by using mafia type tactics to pillage the state's economy for the benefit of himself and cronies like Pereverzin.
The oligarchs are what allowed Yeltsin to stay in power, despite him being an unpopular corrupt alcoholic who destroyed Russia's economy; the oligarchs bankrolled his reelection. Then Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor on condition he would not go after Yeltsin or his family. Putin allowed all the Yeltsin era oligarchs to keep their stolen assets as long as they pledged fealty to him. Khodorkovsky refused since he thought as Russia's richest man, he could dictate terms to Putin. However, Putin charged him for corruption (which he was most certainly guilty of) along with Pereverzin and the rest of the cronies at Yukos. These men inadvertently got Putin to succeed to the presidency, thinking they could control him like they did with Yeltsin. How poetic their corrupt and evil scheme backfired on them and landed them in prison. Pereverzin is no persecuted dissident and martyr for human rights. Putting lipstick on a pig won't make it attractive.
If you read his book "The Prisoner. Behind bars in Putin's Russia" you would write such a strange comment. Pereverzin has been sent to prizon under completely false charges. Khodorkovsky has never ever been charged for corruption and you did not evern mention formal charges in Khodorkovsky case.
I feel sorry for you, that you managed to write such a long comment with has nothing to do with this guy... Maybe it wouid worth to read his book ?
@@user-jq9nv8ys1call of the oligarchs along with their friends pillaged our country in the 90s. Khodor and Pereverzin are sleazy thieves, but there are some thieves just like them left within the government because they're loyal to Putin. These guys weren't, and lost it all. As a reminder to all the powerful people in Russia what would happen if they cross the government somehow.
No person working in such an establishment was innocent, except for the cleaning lady if she didn't have to clean blood from the carpets, lol.
@@user-jq9nv8ys1cpeople were cut into pieces and buried for owning a single vodka plant, do you really think these high rollers are not complicit in assassinations, bribery and corruption?
Wasn’t there a movie based on the downfall of yukos oil company and this guy?
If it makes you feel better there are people in America doing 10-25 years for having a little bit of weed
You think they just let people go for weed possession in Russia?;😂
@@John-mf6ky ya if you’re an oligarch
@@John-mf6ky Usually its a fine, it depends how much you have.
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If it makes you feel better, the US prison system is increasingly privatized and treated as a for-profit organization using slave labour. 🦆👍🦆
Very interesting story!
I expect they work like normal prisons, bad guys go in…good guys come out
This man is a saint. I wish him a long life.
He might be complicit in actual assassinations. Even if he isn't, he is complicit in MAJOR corruption and bribery. More like a wolf in sheep's clothing
The MAGA hats need to see this, since they love Russia so much.
Putin never called me N a Z. I.
Good luck in WW3😂
@@BridgesDontFly Putin calls democratic countries "nazis" every day.
You say that as if the American left didn't fully support Russia for _decades_ during the most brutal and totalitarian period of its history. Lmao Grow up.
Lol. You really believe this video.
Lol. Western people are so gullible.
What, are you kidding? Do you think Trumpists will be upset about the idea that a justice system is political and inhumane? Keep dreaming.
Imagine what the POWs have to endure. If they return they look like the skeletal survivors or WW2 concentration camps. Ruski Mir, sure thing…
Would take everything this guy says with a very large pinch of salt.
Bot
A bucket of salt
Hope this guy is with his family somewhere free and safe.
America needs more prisons like this.
you want people to be forced to confess crimes they did not commit? I wonder how long a strong and brave person like you can withstand torture? One minute - you be a hero! 5 seconds .... That is how crime works
America doesn't have prisons like this, and that's a good thing.
They do have some just secret prisons
@@user-jq9nv8ys1c They all think the'd be the ones on top under a totalitarian regime, when in reality they'd be the victims
Very interesting.
sounds a lot like most jails to me truth be known. The comment about America being a free society comparatively. Yes, much to the dismay of the owners.
I completely disagree with you. I used to be a correctional officer. None of that stuff would be legal federally, or in the state that I worked at you would be arrested and fired right away for beating up inmates for no reason also in the United States, you have a trial Before you’re sent to prison. All the things he’s talking about or not legally allowed in the United States.
Russian jails are certainly not like most jails, not in the civilized world anyway, but then again, we all know Russians aren't civilized.
@@Faceplay2romania has laws against this too, however they aren't followed.
He just said “this is how crime works “
I thought you never committed any crime?
😂😂😂
Is it not obvious, that in this case the crime was commited by the state authorities ?
Hahaha! What a clever comment!
You're not the brightest bulb in the drawer are you?
Just some unbiased, wikipedia information here:
He was a manager for one of the Russian oligarchs oil companies Yukos, where the head of that company had political ambitions. Yukos, like any other oil company, was extremely corrupt, responsible for killing and executing their rivals. Maybe you've heard of owner - Mikhail xodorkovskiy. Long story short, this isn't your "typical" prisoner story. Do your own research people
who was responsible for killing?! Hey, bot, everybody knows, who support killers!
@@user-jq9nv8ys1cpeople in Russia were dismembered and buried for owning a single vodka plant. Do you really think people from yukos aren't complicit in such trivial crimes if there are billions of dollars at stake? Lol.
He never saw a documentary about US prison :D
This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion 😂
"This man was accused of stealing 13 billion. Being a Russian. It was probably only a couple billion "
Ah yes...
"Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes"
This guy looks like Robert de Niro. Only he seems more sane.
I think England prison should be a bit more like Russia ??
Don't be stupid
Guantanamo Bay, do a video on that as well that's actually how crime works
In Russia, you reform jail.
Yukos was shady as any other company in Russia at that time. If you where a business man in those times, it meant you had direct ties to organized crime.
Not true! The more shady oil company in Russia were Rosneft and Surgutnentegaz. Yukos was the first company to be published the ownershiship structure and audit by PWC.
Also, Khodorkovsky at least built kindergartens, sport fields, and roads.
That was one of the reasons he was targeted: he was becoming quite popular among the populace, and as one of the most wealthy people in the country, could potentially fund his own successful political campaign.
@@AeSyrNation He killed a city mayor which tried to force him to pay the workers who were starving without any payment for 6 months at that time.
the mayor also went on the hunger strike with the workers.
>Petukhov went on a hunger strike with demands: to initiate a criminal case in connection with the failure of Yukos to pay taxes in large amounts in 1996-1998, to remove the chief of the tax inspectorate of Nefteyugansk and the head of the tax inspection of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, to pay back the accumulated arrears in the amount of 1.2 trillion non-denominated rubles, stop interfering in the activities of local authorities of Nefteyugansk by Yukos
>A few days after the end of the hunger strike, on the morning of June 26, 1998, on his way to work, Petukhov was shot near the city administration building. His guard was also wounded in the shooting. The murder occurred on the birthday of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which many observers saw as a gift for the Russian businessman's birthday
Funny how after release he has enough money to move to US 🤔
Are you sure that this guy lives in the US?
He resides in Israel, according to a statement he gave to the Hague in 2022.
Not true, he lives in Germany and works as a driver ..
of course you found a person that was sentenced for crime they “didn’t commit”