Time to end the dangerous farce... (1)
The Soviet/Russian passport...
For an American (and, no doubt, for other countries') readers, a few words may be necessary to explain the importance of the паспорт – passport in Russia.
In the US, a passport is a document required for international travel, not basically for internal use. The US passport generally corresponds to the Russian загранпаспорт (for foreign travel), and most Americans do not even possess their own country's passport.
In Russia, the situation is much different. It is not an exaggeration to say that without your паспорт, for any official business you are virtually no one. One's identification is by one's паспорт. Without it, you cannot withdraw money from your own bank account, you cannot file a suit in court, you cannot vote, you cannot receive your pension and so on. You simply cannot identify yourself.
If you lose your паспорт – by theft or whatever – there are procedures to obtain a new one. But they are not simple and can be easily blocked by the secret political police. As I pointed out in part 12 of this series, I had to undergo a long and difficult battle to obtain Russian citizenship and thus my паспорт.
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For years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the old Soviet паспорт continued serving as the de facto Russian passport. But later it became necessary for everyone to exchange his/her old Soviet паспорт for a new Russian one, and in 2003 the allotted time period for effecting this replacement was ending. The process itself was not an instant exchange; you had to submit your Soviet паспорт to the паспортный стол (local passport office), which would then transmit it to the appropriate governmental department. After a few weeks, a normal citizen – i.e., someone not persecuted by the secret political police - could go to the local police station (in my case, at least) and obtain his/her new паспорт. In the interim, formally in society you were virtually “nobody” (as indicated above).
Worse than that for me. In my making preliminary inquiries, the паспортный стол let it be known that the governmental authorities looking into my case “could not find” any record of Yeltsin's указ (decree) awarding me citizenship in 1992 (a lie, of course). Without that information, they would not issue me a new паспорт!
Trouble for me was obviously brewing; the CIA-FSB leave no stone unturned. That proposition itself was nonsense. According to Russian law, one's паспорт itself is prima facie evidence of citizenship. That is to say, the fact that I had a паспорт could only mean either (a) that I had forged it – a serious crime or (b) that I was a citizen. Yeltsin's указ was already history – and searching for it was patently redundant. At the same time, it would go beyond the grounds of credibility to charge me with somehow having counterfeited my паспорт and gotten away with it for over ten years.
Why this explanation? To indicate that for an indefinite – and perhaps extended – period of time in the year 2003 (and possibly well beyond, possibly forever!) I was going to be legally totally incapacitated. There was no getting around it. If I did not turn in my old Soviet паспорт, I would be no better off. That old document was on the verge of becoming irreversibly obsolete and of no value.
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Meanwhile, at home I had a vicious CIA-directed snake ready to pounce on my unavoidable upcoming incapacity. CIA-whore Brown had not become a citizen and her Вид на жительство remained valid.
More than that. We had mutual доверенности (multiple powers of attorney), which legally allowed either of us to effect any banking or any other legal transaction in the other's name. In principle, I could also do this, but only with a valid паспорт on hand.
Arnold Lockshin was in potential deep, deep shit. For me, starvation and even worse was on the horizon.
Look at the facts. (1) The CIA-FSB had had me fired from the cancer center; (2) the CIA-FSB prevented me from earning a living by teaching English or in any way using my language skills; (3) the CIA could easily stop my Social Security retirement benefits – which in fact they did at the end of that very year (2003) ! (4) Without my паспорт, I could not even collect my Russian pension.
I would lose everything and become utterly penniless. Filthy slut Lauren Brown could easily clean out my bank accounts and even take my pension.
For all that, Brown could – and probably would – leave the country with the loot and go back to the US. Where she, in glaring contrast to what my fate would have been, would be received with open, welcoming arms.
And possibly take the Lockshin children with her. Or not. They had already sold their souls and could remain in Russia if they chose. No difference for me, one way or the other.
Arnold Lockshin: all alone, completely broke, hungry – and no one to appeal to.
End of the road.
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Oh, the Pozner – АиФ ditty about me? (see part 15 of this series)
That was to instill in me the preconditioned presentiment that my life was about to end. Filthy, dirty psychological warfare in the form of suggestions and inferences. To intensify anticipated intense feelings of self-guilt and overwhelming despair and self-hatred: “I should have seen it coming. Oh God, why didn't I see it?”
“Suggestion is indeed a potent tool of manipulation... to succeed in getting the individual to act in the desired manner by exploiting the latter's predispositions and preconditioning” (Propaganda comes of age, Michael Choukas, 1965, p. 206).
One last, slight ray of hope? “But maybe I can escape to Cuba or North Korea (imparted suggestion as per Pozner-АиФ).”
Ah, these routes also would have been blocked; more on this aspect later.
The highly focused goal was to leave an utterly despairing Arnold Lockshin only one choice: death – through suicide.
Who would have blamed the CIA-FSB? No one, precisely no one.
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
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