Writer Dmitry Chernyshev - on the trap of "powerlessness" "The propaganda inspires you that everyone supports the regime, you are the only one against it, which means you can't change anything. not. you are not alone There are many of you. Thousands of people continue to work in Russia, helping prisoners, hiding young people from conscription and supporting Ukrainian refugees. No one is asking you to set yourself on fire in Red Square, but you can do a lot. You can keep diaries like Klemperer and save documents - this will later help historians to reconstruct the picture of what happened, so as not to repeat mistakes. Solzhenitsyn, in his essay "Not to Live by a Lie", deliberately proposed not a heroic standard, but a minimal one. He did not call for an uprising and did not demand to sacrifice his life. He offered not to personally participate in the wickedness." Read in full on the Echo website.