Maria Alyokhina
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Alyokhina, Mariya, Vladimirovna
Алёхина, Мария Владимировна - Geburtstag
- 1988-06-06
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Russian Federation
- Land (für Karte)
- Russia
- Geburtsort
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
- Wohnorte
- Moscow, Russia
Berezniki, Perm Krai, Russian Federation
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia - Ausbildung
- Institute of Journalism and Creative Writing, Moscow (did not graduate)
- Berufe
- activist
musician
playwright
actor
member, Pussy Riot - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought (2014)
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- Werke
- 4
- Mitglieder
- 98
- Beliebtheit
- #193,038
- Bewertung
- 4.1
- Rezensionen
- 17
- ISBNs
- 7
- Sprachen
- 2
More than this though, the book is about the author's time in prison, where, as a political prisoner, she received 'special' treatment, including being kept in solitary 'for her own safety', having her own guard who monitored her alone, and video surveillance of her cell. She showed incredible fortitude, courage and outright fearlessness in dealing with the prison system. She fought them, only rarely questioning the impacts this had on other prisoners, who were collectively punished for Maria's actions to seek basic rights for all prisoners. I so admire her steadfastness in this regard. She was unwavering in her conviction that "to back down an inch is to give up a mile".
Prison time was tough, the hundreds of indignities and petty nastiness from the guards, and the 'system', were designed to create submissive prisoners. This type of systematic bullying and cruelty is so shockingly recent, 2012, and proves Putin's Russia to be nothing like the images it projects.… (mehr)