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From a prison diary Alina Vitukhnovskaya (1973) I don´t think it´s right that the state should use any agents however many. I repeat, however many arguments there are in favour. It is absolutely disgusting. To enter into someone´s trust entails assuming a huge responsability. In betraying them, sheltering behind the interest of the state, feeling you are fulfilling a great mission, you are still betraying, no more, no less. Because a state, whose well being in built on denunciations, is not worthy of having its interests guarded. Because a state that is divided into agents and no-agents, finally turns into a huge prison, controlled by shits; because decent people don´t become agents, and agents don´t become decent people. ...Prison is a factory designed to produce informants, a place where cowardly vileness, hidden till then, receives its endorsement in fact and deed. Physical and metaphysical terrors are transformed into real facts. There´s nowhere to run from the second, as opposed to the first. If on one occasion you show yourself to be used, they will use you for ever. They will just use you. They will you however they want to. The system seeks out its slaves. The slaves seek out their system. In prison, where they find each other, the system devours the slave through his or her own slavery. A generation of informers is growing up in our country. If half the population is in the camps, and the other half guards these camps, it will not be the state that is guilty, or the agents; the generation will be guilty, because it allows itself to be recruited. The number of agents is increasing, quietly and imperceptibly. Haven´t you noticed? Pay attention, just in case. Don´t think about society. Think about yourself. Suddendly you too could be the father or mother of Pavlik Morozov*. 1994 Butyrki Prison
*Pavlik Morozov: a child that became famous because he denounced his own parents, in Stalin´s times.
From "Written in prison. XXth Century. Russia" Bilingual edition - Russian/English
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