“Arif, my dear!
Well, after 36 years of our lives with you, we were in different cells in different zones …
My dear, do not you know, I bear it: and the terrible physical pain
(from the cold water I went to the inflammatory process) and pressure
ugolovnitsy with great experience in the camera (by the way, she comes
from Ganja, Ganja again our failed us) and even visits these jackals of
the prosecutor’s office. I stand no gear (I know, and you are completely
without gears, without a change of clothes, medicines). I, too, without
food and without medication. Can you imagine what these jackals are
Usubovs, lemberanskis they little that we in the sweltering chamber,
they have more hunger and starved and without medication.
But the hardest part is that you’re not around. We’re almost never parted all 36 years!
I can not not be able to even talk to you in the mail and I decided to
write you this open letter. As something they get to you.
You know, we read with you all – and Solzhenitsyn, and Varlaam
Shalamova and Grossman and Aksenov. We’re often discussed, they feel the
couple, who were taken together. And in 1937 there were a great many.
We’re just not assume that in the XXI century, we come to the
repression of the 30s. Yesterday I was reminded of the words of Grossman
in his “Life and Fate”. He writes about the feelings of the prisoners:
“terrible sadness is replaced by meaningless opium – optimism …”
How exactly said about optimism in the prisons of authoritarian
structures. And still there: the Jews in 1942 in the camps passed each
other accurate information, “Hitler gave a tough ultimatum – immediately
release all the Jews!”
And people believed … Believed because clinging to meaningless opium – optimism.
We are with you – realists. “Politics – a dirty business.” We’re all
aware. It would not have developed life – the most terrible that I can
not see you. And it is with you our 37th year.
Hugs,
Leyla
*Letter poisoned human rights activist Leyla Yunus to spouse Arif from the detention center in Kurdakhani
