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.
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"
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
@@Sawdust-f4p 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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. 😬😬😬
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.
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.
@@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 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.
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 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.
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!” 😊
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
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.
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.
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.
❤❤Oh please, some people believe that when prisoners are being sensitive it is genuine but Russians don't believe anybody feels sensitive. Prisoners and everybody feel like this. One place you know one thing chapki. In Poland. ❤
All the Russian oligarchs acquired the state oil companies through corruption, after the fall of the USSR. He was one of the main deal-makers for Yukos.
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.
"Guys go missing for 2 weeks, and no one knows where they are." Since when do inmates in any prison get informed about the movements of their friends. They could literally just be on another range, this could happen in any prison
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
@@переверзинвладимирpeople 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.
The same thing could be said anywhere. People know breaking the law has the consequence of prison - but it doesnt stop them. In places where the death penalty is a possibility or a mandated sentence for certain crimes, people still commit those crimes.
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.
It strikes me as highly unusual that a person in Russia would be convicted in court and sentenced to prison for a crime they didn’t actually commit. I always figured Russia just disappears or assassinates those people.
Nah, you only disappear if you're important enough and an actual threat to the regime by functionally working against it. As long as you only say they're dumb or you're an easy scapegoat to keep the actual criminal out of jail (if he's more important than you and the majority of the public doesn't know the truth (isn't aware or has no info)) it's only jail time.
A few political prisoners promptly escaped from the Russian stockade to the Moscow underground. Today, still wanted by the Russian government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can the hire the A Brigade.
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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.
@@переверзинвладимирall 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.
@@переверзинвладимирpeople 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?
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
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
@@Jenny-uv4dllol cool story brah. Needs more tattoos n dragons
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 🇬🇧
@@Sawdust-f4p 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 😂
@@jooosAREevil 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 😂
@@jooosAREevil tell me you've never been/lived in russia without telling me
@@jooosAREevilignorant
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
Imagine being a scapegoat for an oligarch. Meanwhile for 7 years they were on their $100 million yacht and 20 hot playthings.
Pariahs
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!!!!
😃🥊
Don’t let his soft voice fool you, this man is a beast. Admirable.
😭😭😭 nah convicted for stealing ALL the oil is crazy
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 ❤
It just tells you away from Russia and moderns dictators like putin,erdogan,yo kim etc
Interesting and simple. They needed a fall guy. To officially acquire the oil.
It’s never that simple
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.
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 ….
The reel noises between each cut really take away from the intensity of the interview.
That's probably on purpose. It's Business Insider. Good point though.
Great story, sad, eye opening. ThankYou from Australia ❤
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?
@@переверзинвладимир It's a line from a TV show. A Russian guy is saying this about American prison. Never mind 🤫
@@переверзинвладимирreading comprehension non existent
I was thinking of that exact scene as I watched this.
"Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn't us."
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.
Лечите свою шизофрению, ребята.
Just ordered his book. What a story!
PLEASE Make an episode of rehabilitation camps
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.
I'm happy you made it out!
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).
If it’s any consolation the oligarch ended up in jail for 10 years.
@@maddogsstar Yes it is! Thank you.
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 feel bad for this man Russian prisons are tough he seems like a decent guy
I'm extremely grateful for being born in America.
Why?
@@JamesSmith-xl7ph Really?
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 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
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?
😂
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.
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.
@@переверзинвладимир what's a track driver
yes,this one is called documentary .bravo .
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?
@@переверзинвладимир he was murdered by Putin
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!” 😊
My name is Vladimir, but everyone calls me Georgio
For a second there I thought the thumbnail said “schizo guard”
Cheeky clickbait. They knew what they were doing lol.
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
@@Mrbyzantine99 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
Great narration
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
Undisputed the first movie was shot in Bulgarian prison. Petrich prison to be exact
Really enjoyed listening to this clever and composed man.
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
excellent video
Eipstein would have been glad to hear your story.
Him looking at them after talking about long showers, looking for the incredulous look thats on his face. Heavy
The oil company broke the cardinal sin of not cutting Putin in on the deals.
Great story,being happy at the end with the small things
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
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
I don't believe this.
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.
Stfu. Dude is talking about spending 7 years in the toughest prisons of earth and you are comparing it to a USA school.
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.
❤❤Oh please, some people believe that when prisoners are being sensitive it is genuine but Russians don't believe anybody feels sensitive. Prisoners and everybody feel like this. One place you know one thing chapki. In Poland. ❤
This guy was more than just a middle manager, a lot more
All the Russian oligarchs acquired the state oil companies through corruption, after the fall of the USSR. He was one of the main deal-makers for Yukos.
Now may you let us know how Guantanamo works?
Russians are so calm and talk quietly
"I am Vladimir Pereverzin, I was sentenced to 11 years in Russian prison for crime I never commit... here is how crime works"
Crime was committed by judges and investigaters...
watched it through the whole way, what a wonderful story honestly
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.
Kafka made better predictions than PKD or the Simpsons.
Good luck to this man
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.
brilliant English and good health for a man who served in unbearable conditions for 11 years
Excellent work 👏
Next do Guantanamo bay 👍
Compare and contrast.
How sorry I am that you had to suffer so horribly as an innocent and good man. God bless you.
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. 🦆👍🦆
"Guys go missing for 2 weeks, and no one knows where they are." Since when do inmates in any prison get informed about the movements of their friends. They could literally just be on another range, this could happen in any prison
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!
@@переверзинвладимирpeople 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.
Yeah, yeah… everyone in prison claims they’re innocent
and here comes all the americans to tell how wonderful the US prison system is and its the best in the world.
Makes you wonder why someone would commit crimes in Russia seeing that the prisons are so bad .
you dont have to commit anything. Being in the wrong place , in the wrong time is enough to destroy you
The same thing could be said anywhere. People know breaking the law has the consequence of prison - but it doesnt stop them.
In places where the death penalty is a possibility or a mandated sentence for certain crimes, people still commit those crimes.
Most crimes are either committed in the heat of the moment or by people who assume they won't get caught.
Because they don’t know that there is a luxury prison like in U.S or Europe
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
@@переверзинвладимир They all think the'd be the ones on top under a totalitarian regime, when in reality they'd be the victims
of course you found a person that was sentenced for crime they “didn’t commit”
great project.
especially for those who liked A Million Little Pieces...🤣
He discribe all details in his book, where every single word is true...
@@переверзинвладимир innocence project is waiting for his application 😅
What a fantastic human being.
We need prisons like this in the uk, criminals have nothing to fear with the current system
I thought I had a bad day but then I was like thank you Lord I am fine
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.
"This cannot happen in civilized country." You're right, it happened in Russia.
I expect they work like normal prisons, bad guys go in…good guys come out
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 🤣
It strikes me as highly unusual that a person in Russia would be convicted in court and sentenced to prison for a crime they didn’t actually commit.
I always figured Russia just disappears or assassinates those people.
No they send you to jail first. Then they disappear you 😢😭
Nah, you only disappear if you're important enough and an actual threat to the regime by functionally working against it.
As long as you only say they're dumb or you're an easy scapegoat to keep the actual criminal out of jail (if he's more important than you and the majority of the public doesn't know the truth (isn't aware or has no info)) it's only jail time.
A few political prisoners promptly escaped from the Russian stockade to the Moscow underground. Today, still wanted by the Russian government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can the hire the A Brigade.
That's what happens when everything you now about russia comes from CNN
@@johnjames7332better comment 😂
Hope this guy is with his family somewhere free and safe.
Well, it was nice knowing this guy.
If he's in an american channel he's probably very safe.
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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 ?
@@переверзинвладимирall 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.
@@переверзинвладимирpeople 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?
paid for comment
the VHS timer/PLAY effect is kinda silly, at least change the time when u edit the cuts ...
In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!
Very interesting story!
In Russia, you reform jail.
He doesn't mention this but the "untouchables" are usually homosexual men.
Russia, the North Korea of Europe.
100%
More than 10x as many people were arrested for social media posts in the uk than in Russia last year
But you can leave Russia freely and you can't escape Ukraine if you are male 🤔
@@ByddinRhyddidCymrucan you give more detailed info?
@@annalehman93941 yea you can leave Russia, like ‘The Hotel California’…
Wasn’t there a movie based on the downfall of yukos oil company and this guy?