It could have been a story taken from an updated excerpt from his Gulag Archipelago. Alexander Solzhenitsyn. OUR Olesya Krivtsova at 19, she couldn’t imagine being the hero of such a dark story.
“The state does not have the courage to argue: democracy or freedom,” she told the BBC when the court ruled to extend her house arrest through electronic surveillance.
When she crosses her legs, the image is surrealistically symbolic, at the same time full of the darkness of reality experienced by those in Russia who hold a different point of view and dare to express it.
Her present, if not her future, is locked on one leg: a bracelet that controls her movements and keeps her from leaving the house.
On the other leg, just in front of the ankle, there is one tattoo with the image of the President of Russia in the body of a spider and an Orwellian signature: Your older brother is watching.
Source: Kathimerini
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