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Stills from films:
"Outpost," a 2019 TV series.
"Brother 2," a 2000 film.
"Enter the Matrix," a video game.
Quotes from Sergei Nikolaevich Sergeev-Tsensky's novel "Sevastopol Strain," Volume 1. Part One. Chapter Seven. Embezzlers.
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"Deboux sat in the battalion's small office, casually writing in his native French in a thick notebook,
"The siege of Sevastopol," wrote Deboux, "is being waged by the allies with great force and great technical resources, but it must be acknowledged that Sevastopol also possesses formidable defenses and is being skillfully defended." Sailors, like artillerymen, fight especially zealously on the bastions; but they are, after all, the brothers of those sailors and workers from the naval crews who rebelled in May-June 1830, 1830. But if this rebellion was known at all in the rest of Russia, it was only under the stereotypical name of the "cholera women's revolt." That's exactly how I heard about it, and I included it in the series of "cholera riots" that swept across Russia in 1830-1831. But it was only after joining a workers' battalion in Sevastopol that I learned from the elders what this "women's revolt" was.
In Sevastopol, the authorities were committing such terrible atrocities for personal gain, as was expected in a remote outskirts that had only recently been annexed to the state.
First of all, the question arises: was there really a plague in Sevastopol in 1829-1830? The elders unanimously claim that there was none, and they call this "epidemic" quite aptly a "pocket plague," that is, simply a way for officials to line their pockets by exploiting quarantine measures to prevent the spread of the plague.
It would seem, how could one line one's pockets from the plague? But for an official, a seasoned bribe-taker and embezzler, every excuse is an excuse for profit, and none is bad. If it's a plague, so be it, and even with it, we'll survive.
Under Emperor Paul, they say, there was an official who was constantly clamoring for a position in the palace: "Oh, if only they'd let me look after His Majesty's canary! Because with that little yellow bird, I, my wife, and my children—we'll all be well fed!"
But the plague isn't a canary; "...to combat the plague, which allegedly appeared in the troops fighting Turkey, and then migrated to the southern Russian ports, the government allocated considerable sums, and it was precisely for this purpose, in order to pocket these sums, that officials were ready to declare any pimple on the body of a sailor or sailor's uniform, a worker or a day laborer, as plague, and to quarantine the population of Sevastopol for their entire lives: so that their wives would have enough for crinolines, and to raise their children in society, and to save up some capital for their old age...
It was this endless quarantine, the "canary" of officials, that embittered the poorest working population of the Sevastopol settlements."
The fact was that the main population of these settlements - the families of active and retired sailors - lived in summer Work in the farmsteads surrounding Sevastopol was cut off from their access to this work, thus condemning them to starvation in the winter. Furthermore, it was noticed that residents of Sevastopol proper, primarily officers, were easily able to sneak through the quarantine line: special rules existed for them; therefore, they could not possibly transmit the plague further north. Quarantine police officers and officials received special daily allowances for fighting the plague—a substantial supplement to their salaries. Furthermore, they were responsible for supplying food to residents of the "plague-ridden" areas, and when it came to "supply," the officials were in full swing. For this purpose, they obtained from somewhere such rancid, stale flour that even pigs wouldn't eat it.
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So, the uprising was brutally suppressed. The people dreamed of freeing themselves from the yoke of the autocratic Tsar. But when English, French, and Turkish squadrons with landing forces arrived in Sevastopol, but those same sailors and soldiers now fiercely defend their land and the same Tsar, who hasn't changed for the better, on it...
"Panorama of the Defense of Sevastopol 1854-1855"
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