What to do with the gypsies? What do they do with rapists in prison? What is the attitude towards rapists in the zone? Marriage and sex life

For several days I have been observing a nationalist bacchanalia around a gypsy settlement in Plekhanovo, Tula Region. How else can you call it if crowds of people together, in chorus, shout on the Internet: “Demolish their houses! Drive the gypsies out of the country! Beat them with clubs! "

Gypsies (this is more correct to write), of course, are very special people. They are not used to telling the truth. Either they do not know how, or everyone around is considered fools who are simply deceived. They really know how to speak, in the sense that they know the basics of linguistic programming. But I don't believe in gypsy magic.

But the most humane in this story, by the way, turned out to be the governor of the Tula region, Vladimir Gruzdev (now transferred to another important job - "closer to home"). Despite the fact that the houses were built by the Roma illegally, and he knew this, Gruzdev said that “there are children there” (which is true, including babies), and that “it is inhumane to demolish them”.

But look how they all lie. You are amazed.

Nadezhda Demeter, head of the Federal National-Cultural Autonomy of Russian Roma, among other things.

“They were brought in. For 10 years, the houses in which they live have been demolished (?!), instead of helping them to legalize these houses, to legalize the gas supplied so that they live like people, pay for gas and everything would be as it should be. Since 2005, Roma houses have been demolished one by one without any compensation, because they have no documents for the land, they turn off the gas. How long will this last? That they need to be driven into the woods? People could not stand it. It had to be brought to such a state. "

Governor Gruzdev, let me remind you, said that let them live, there are children. In general, he is a good man. Not like some screamers. He is not a man-bulldozer, which was under Luzhkov, and demolished dachas. We will not mention him in vain, although why not remember Mr. Mitvol. Gruzdev, however, is good. Honest. And decent. Kind. Probably too much.

Representatives of the diaspora said that the camp has been living in the village since the 1960s, but cannot agree with the authorities to get them supplied with gas. They seemed to have drawn up all the documents, but then the papers suddenly turned out to be invalid (some kind of miracle!). Then they "themselves bought all the equipment for connecting to the gas pipeline and prepared a project, but the authorities did not accept it." According to them, all the Roma need is to be connected to the gas and to pay for it “like all people”. But they can't do that. Why lie?

Representatives of JSC Gazprom gazoraspredelenie Tula, of course, denied the accusations of the Roma: according to them, “any applicant who wants to receive a service gets it”. But there were no statements. There were illegal inserts. By the way, dozens of sidebars. The good man Gruzdev attributed the costs to the dropped pressure in the pipes. He understood everything, but he did not deprive the Roma of gas. Winter, children ...

I liked the passage of the Tula news service. They were allegedly threatened to smash the camera, but they said: “The men, having talked to the operator and the camera, warned them: run, now women will come with shovels, they are inadequate”.

And again the gypsies are lying, as you can see that women with spades will stir up the film crew. The national flavor is evident.

The conflict began when a pipe was damaged during one of the tie-ins. Groundwater got into it, and 378 houses were left without gas. Then the gasmen arrived. The gypsies were afraid that they would be left without gas in winter and began to burn tires, throw stones, in general, they defended themselves as best they could. The riot police dispersed them. And he crumpled a little. There is now a new governor in the Tula region. He does not stand on ceremony with violators.

Of course, the camp lives by its own laws (national flavor). They set up houses. Do not make out. But gas, water and light flow at the expense of the state. Property taxes are also not for Roma. Are you out of your mind, what taxes ?!

How does a gypsy live ?! (No, I'm not talking about the drug trade). In addition to the home garden. Chickens, turkeys, other animals. In the morning the women (the ones with the shovels) go to work. The men at home are waiting for what will be brought to them. A good wife always comes with prey. The bad one can be beaten. Drugs. Trade in stolen goods is in the order of things. But you must understand, people, these are people who love freedom.

Have you watched Emir Kusturitsa "Black cat, white cat" ?! They live somehow.

Not so long ago there was an ugly episode in the Pyaterochka grocery store, where gypsy children are used to carrying ice cream and sweets. And of course, they quarreled with the guard, accusing him of beating children. He just exclaimed: "For what ?!" Because he is also a good and humane man. And he could really hit the kids on the head.

The choice is worth it. In some countries, Roma are generally evicted. Do not tolerate. They have known everything about this people for a long time. For example, the French are moving Roma to Romania. It is not known what to do with them in Russia. It is clear that they will not change. It is only the actors of the Romen Theater that make them a positive image. The bulk of Russians have long understood the Roma and hate it fiercely.

But let's be human. There was such a stupid slogan "Russia is a generous soul." Maybe we can be generous? Let's let the gypsies live as they used to - freely. I don't know, really, is this generosity or stupidity? After all, conflicts between Roma and local residents arise regularly. Offhand - Sagra, Sverdlovsk region (2011), Krotovka, Samara region (2012), Chudovo, Novgorod region (2013), Kurgan, the conflict stretched as far as 2011-2014. And everywhere with fights, firearms and the use of knives.

So maybe it's Romania after all? Or is Russia a "generous soul"?

Chapter 7 THE LAST GYPS

There were also gypsies in Kholodnogorsk. Fifteen people of different camps. Two old men of them sang in the gypsy choir of the famous restaurant "Yar".

The Gypsies of the Cold Mountains told me a lot about why and why their fellow tribesmen were arrested in the USSR; talked about their investigative "affairs". In most cases these were politically humorous "crimes" and in the stories about them the facts were mixed and intertwined with the Gypsy prison folklore ...

- Look! Why is the gypsy tearing his hair out?

- And he is in a hurry to go bald. He is afraid that the Soviet regime might take away his last hairs. "

Such a comic saying was put down by the Russian people about the Gypsies in the Soviet Union.

And here is another saying:

"The Gypsy camp was liquidated, his horses were collectivized, his guitar was nationalized, and his skin was isolated in prison."

About such folk art, I talked to the leader of a gypsy camp who was sitting in Kholodnogorsk.

- Are these sayings about you correct? I asked him.

He grinned and replied:

- They are correct, but not quite.

- Why?

- The Soviet government did not take everything away from us.

- What did she leave you?

- And three letters.

- What letters ?!

- From the Russian alphabet ... C, O and B. It is now a gypsy brand. Like a horse. Only horses put him on their skins, and gypsies on investigative cases ...

Gypsies are dangerous people for the Soviet regime. They wander, do not recognize state borders and do not want to go to collective farms. Therefore, the Bolsheviks organized a complete liquidation of the gypsy camps. Gypsies are arrested and sent to concentration camps without trial, and on the folders with their very short investigative files they write: "S. V." or "S. O." - initial letters of words: sociallydangerous and socialharmful. Sometimes Roma go to jail for specific, albeit very outlandish, crimes.

Every year the number of Roma in the Soviet Union is decreasing. They are dying out in prisons and concentration camps, guilty without guilt before communism.

“We are the very last people for the Bolsheviks,” the cold mountain gypsies told me.

And in their new songs, which I heard in Kholodnogorsk, hopelessness and doom sounded:

From a young age I disappear in prison

And there is no way out for me ... "

... In the last camp

The last gypsy

Sings his last song ...

Cyril's gypsies roamed the North Caucasus, dodging the persecutions of the Soviet regime in every possible way. Finally, the authorities groped for him. The commissioners came to the camp by subscription to the Industrialization Loan and began to agitate:

- Comrades gypsies! Let's fulfill our duty! Everyone, as one, will sign up for a loan! 300 rubles each.

- What kind of loan? - asks Kirila.

The representatives explained to him. He listened, and then struck the tops of his boots with his palms and shouted to the whole camp:

- And what kind of state is this beggar! Even a poor gypsy can borrow money!

The Roma refused to sign up for the loan. On the same evening, the entire camp was arrested, and later sent to concentration camps. Kirila, as the instigator of the "anti-loan riot", was shot.

Two gypsies stole horses at night from state farm No. 25 near Pyatigorsk. The judge who examined their case passed the following sentence:

"Defendants Stepan Glotov and Yakov Chaly, leading the horses out of the state farm's stables at night, threw their harness and forgot to take the bridles with them. Therefore, they were found guilty of mismanagement and negligence ..."

The leader of the camp, Nikita Tsygankov, was summoned to the NKVD department for the specific purpose of putting him in prison later. And Tsygankov did not want to sit there. Therefore, he consulted with experienced people and they taught him how to answer the questions of the NKVD.

A gypsy came to the NKVD department. One of the investigators asks him:

- Who is your father?

Tsygankov grits his teeth in anger at the Soviet regime, but answers, as if written:

- Our dear leader and teacher, Comrade Stalin.

- Who is your mother?

- Our beloved Soviet power.

- Who would you like to be?

- An orphan! - the gypsies could not resist ... He did not return to the camp.

In the spring of a famine in 1932, in the village of Shelkovskaya in the Kizlyar District, a beggar gypsy woman stole several baked potatoes from a collective farmer. She pulled them out of the stove while hot and stuffed them in the bosom of her 8-year-old son. The collective farmer noticed the theft and raised a cry.

Neighbors ran up and took the gypsy woman, together with her son, to the police station nearby. There, the police officer on duty began interrogating them, but to no avail. The arrested do not answer his questions. A large portrait of the "father of nations" with a mustache and a pipe hangs over the head of the policeman. The gypsy looks at him frightened and grabs his bosom with both hands.

Hot potatoes bake his chest. A boy cries and says:

- Oh, mommy, goof… goup. The gypsy woman with fear looks sideways at the portrait, then at the policeman and mumbles quickly to her son:

- And I told you, Run to the shatyryl Yes, put it on tarilo And there will be no guporyla ...

Listening to their conversation, the policeman shouted:

- Aha! Are you breeding counter-revolution here? Well, it will come out sideways for you ...

A short time later, in the Kizlyar department of the NKVD, the gypsy woman and her son were interrogated "with partiality." The indictment in their "case" read:

"The accused, standing in front of the portrait of Comrade Stalin, conducted anti-Soviet agitation against him and made counter-revolutionary allusions to his brilliant historical personality, that is, they loudly repeated:" Stupid snout ... stupid snout ... "

It was in vain that the gypsy swore that neither she nor her son even thought of insulting Stalin, and the word gyporylo in the local gypsy dialect means - hot ...

Two weeks later, she died during interrogation "from a heart attack," and her son was sent to a colony for street children.

In the editorial office of the Pyatigorsk newspaper "Terek" worked a girl-gypsy Liza Bezrodnaya. She wrote city chronicles and poems from gypsy life. The poems were good, but they were not good for a newspaper. The editor called them ideologically unrestrained and inconsistent with the era, and therefore threw them into the trash.

Once he told Lisa:

- Comrade Rootless! You must be reforged. Give up your gypsy and go as a special correspondent to collective farms.

- But I have never been to collective farms and I don’t know agriculture. And I don’t know how to write on collective farm topics, ”the girl objected.

- Learn as you work. And in general I ask you to turn your face to the village, - the editor demanded.

Bezrodnaya went to collective farms, deciding to prove to the editor that she knew nothing about agriculture. In the very first letter from the collective farm she sent the following verses to the editorial board of Terek:

The whole editors laughed at these verses, but the editor did not like them. For three days he frowned and got angry, and a few days later Liza was summoned to the city department of the GPU.

Soon after this, the editorial board became aware that Bezrodnaya had been sentenced to five years in prison "for a mocking anti-Soviet attack in the direction of a party press organ." However, her humorous poems about the collective farm became widely known, first in the North Caucasus, and then throughout the country. They were even recorded on a gramophone record, adding to them an "ideologically consistent" propaganda eight-line.

In 1936, the Soviet film "The Last Camp" appeared on the screens of the country. He was filmed in the Gypsy collective farm "Trud Romen", Mineralovodsky region (in the North Caucasus). The main role was played by the famous artist of the Moscow theater "Romen" Lyalya Chorna.

The film showed how Gypsies leave their camps, voluntarily enter collective farms and work post-Akhanovka there. But in reality it was different. For two years before the filming of the film, several camps were forced into the Mineralovodsk collective farm and, under the threat of concentration camps, tried to make them work. The freedom-loving nomads who had never engaged in agriculture worked poorly. There were frequent cases of sabotage on the collective farm.

I had to visit the fields of the Trud Romen collective farm in the spring of 1937. Having arrived there as a special correspondent for the regional newspaper, I was very surprised that in the midst of spring sowing the collective farmers did not work. Gypsies with whips in their hands ran through the fields, shouting and cursing.

- What's the matter? Why don't you sow? - I asked the chairman of the collective farm.

He waved his hand hopelessly.

- On the third day, the first brigade changes with the second horses. Pozygan. What kind of gypsies are collective farmers if they have never plowed and sowed?

When the war with the Germans began, the regional administration of the NKVD, by order from Moscow, liquidated the Trud Romen collective farm, and sent all the Gypsies in it to the northern concentration camps.

One of the singers of the Gypsy choir of the Yar restaurant, who was sitting in Kholodnogorsk, composed a song, which he called "Gypsy prison". It was often sung by the cold mountain gypsies with tears in their eyes.

Here is this song:

Squatting every day

How hard it is for us and how it hurts

With a five-seated log.

How high is the prison fence.

In a human trap

We envy the beast:

Roma prisoners

In the Bolshevik yes in paradise ...

"Sokolovsky choir at" Yar "

Was whenthen famous ...

And now the gypsy guitar

It won't ring for us.

Our Yarovski gypsies

Scattered across the country

So that in the concentration camp fog

Remember the old days

Behind the iron behind bars

Curse your fate,

Between a bullet and a whip

In the Bolshevik so in paradise.

After "Yar", after the chorus

Our leader did not live long:

Under interrogation very soon

I got a heartbreak.

Our dancer Yasha is far away.

He's in a concentration camp alone

Guitarist dashing Danilo

I went to a collective farm as a shepherd;

We most often judge the life of Roma in the post-Soviet space by films and examples from life. In the first case, this is the story of Budulai, performed by Mihai Volontir, or the "camp passions" of the Carmelita series. Songs, music, fiery dances and fatal love - a touch to a mysterious, unfamiliar white man's world. The reality, alas, is much more prosaic. This fall, the criminal investigation department again records the traditional surge of crimes with a characteristic "gypsy handwriting". Begging and theft, fraud and even murder - these are the reasons for the recent mention of gypsies in the media (the massacres of old women in the Drogichin region have not yet been forgotten, and the Supreme Court of Belarus left the sentence unchanged to the criminals). The latter, in turn, blame the society for everything, which turned against them. What will help instruct the "horse thieves" of the XXI century to be true: a stick or a carrot?

Theft with minimal risk

At about 10 am, four women came to a pensioner from the village of Mochul, Stolin district, and introduced themselves as social workers. A 79-year-old lonely old woman happily admitted attentive guests into the house. Two of them went with the hostess into the room, closed the door and for about fifteen minutes talked with her about her health, life, and everyday life. At parting, they promised to look after the pensioner. Delighted with such attention from the state, the old woman happily accompanied the ladies to the doorstep, repeatedly inviting them to visit. She took back her words only when she returned to the kitchen, where she saw on the floor near the stove a black cloth ribbon with which she wrapped her savings for old age - under the pillow on the stove, grandmother kept fifteen hundred euros, $ 400 and six million rubles.

If you believe the encyclopedias, in the gypsy culture the cult of age is expressed by respect not just for the elderly, but respect for those who are older in general. The opinion of older people is perceived as authoritative, except in special cases (for example, if a person is considered narrow-minded). It is considered a terrible crime to raise a hand against an old person, even if he is physically strong. Reference to the opinion of an elderly person is one of the most powerful arguments in any dispute. Obviously, this only applies to "their" old people.

According to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Brest Regional Department of Internal Affairs, this year the Roma have committed more than 30 similar crimes. Posing as social security workers, doctors, gas workers, insurance agents and other representatives of government agencies, gypsies, carefully disguising themselves with wigs, large sunglasses and makeup, come to the homes of elderly people. Old people are defenseless, gullible, many have problems with vision, hearing and memory. Such victims not only have difficulty describing thieves. Many do not immediately detect the loss at all, and if after a month or two they notice the disappearance, they sin on their own absent-mindedness. So in reality there are several times more "gypsy thefts" than the official statistics say.

In the Brest region, Romani criminals have become more active in the Kobrin, Pruzhany and Kamenets districts. They include both theft and robbery. Still fresh in my memory is a series of murders of elderly women in the Drogichin region, who were strangled by two Roma and then robbed of their homes. As a rule, Roma do not steal where they live. In the Brest region, for example, "stray" from the Gomel region are operating, the Brest ones go to the Grodno and Gomel regions. The handwriting is the same everywhere. They drive up to the village in a pre-hired car with a driver, an illegal cab driver, popularly called "bombila", choose huts with elderly owners on the outskirts of the village and "go into battle." Often, as already mentioned, they pretend to be civil servants, or secretly enter the house while the owners are not there. That is why spring-autumn, when residents work in their gardens all day, is the best time to steal ...

Why did people with an ancient, rather interesting culture, who live in our entire diasporas, choose this way of earning money? Only they themselves and those who live with the Roma on the same land can answer.

Between home and prison

In the Brest region, the majority of Roma live in David-Gorodok, Stolin district. In the region where they live, Roma, as a rule, do not operate, however, their surnames often surface in crimes recorded by the police in neighboring regions.

In order to stop this crime, a whole department is probably needed that would deal only with Roma, - says the chairman of the city council of David-Gorodok Vladimir Golovach. - Alas, it's not that the department - ordinary police officers will not be enough. Today 345 Roma live in our city. Many begin to steal from an early age. So judge what is the crime situation. Yes, we put the Roma under special control, we have lists of families, but keeping track of everyone is impossible.

In order to seriously deal with the gypsy issue, one must at least be imbued with their life and customs. And not by what is written in the "learned books", but by reality. For example, it is not men who are involved in stealing and begging, but women. Traditionally, local Roma have the main function of a man - "child production". A woman should be the earner in the family. Even if a gypsy has committed a crime, his wife must be sent to prison for him, taking the blame. Recently, stereotypes are beginning to break down, but degenerated age-old traditions leave an imprint on the current state of affairs. It is really difficult for illiterate large families, which a woman must feed, to survive in the garden or on a local collective farm with a rather low salary. This year, however, in the summer, for the first time in the history of private farmers, over forty gypsies went to work in David-Gorodok. However, alas, the figure is not that significant. There are Gypsy families living a normal life, but there are very few of them.

Of those Roma women who have turned to us, not one has yet accepted the job offered to her, ”says Sergei Shilo, head of the Stolin employment center. - They come to us to receive targeted social assistance, mostly women. Men have never applied at all. One obliged under Decree No. 18 from David-Gorodok is literally forced to work.

Since the time of their settlement, Roma have not really worked with us, ”says Vitaly Savitsky, the head of the David-City city police department. - 20-30 years ago they were engaged in speculation. Then, when it became unprofitable to resell vodka, they sold drugs from Ukraine. Now they just steal, and in their free time they mostly drink, walk. On the principle of stealing - drinking - in jail. Although recently the punishment has become softer. They are condemned, but they are not imprisoned in prisons, which are already overcrowded. Here's an example. In one of the villages, two gypsies lured four million rubles from an old woman. We found them, made them return the money. One was detained. And what do you think? A week or two later, the remaining gypsy woman again lured the money back from the same grandmother! As a result, neither one nor the other is in prison.

In addition, given their peculiar national characteristics, they remain citizens of Belarus, with all rights and social benefits. This does not at all force them to work. So the majority of gypsies, although they live with their husbands, are not officially registered. They will play a gypsy wedding - that's all. Moreover, most of these families have many children, therefore, according to our laws, formally, they are single mothers who are entitled to all state subsidies. First of all, a loan for housing, with almost one hundred percent repayment. Such, here, is a solid platform for parasitism.

Past the schoolyard

If you can't force Roma to work, you can't put all criminals in jail, is there a solution to the problem?

Everything comes from family and education, - continues Vladimir Golovach. - The child, of course, adopts the lifestyle of the parents. We must somehow break the vicious circle, but not take the child away from his parents for not making him go to school!

According to local residents, the Roma are indeed reluctant to study. But, most interestingly, the state does not seem to care much about this.

If a Belarusian schoolchild does not go to school, there is a lot of noise, - in the presence of the mayor, Nikolai Berezovsky, an honorary citizen of David-Gorodok, is indignant, - parents are called to school, they are reprimanded, threatened with legislation. All this can go all the way to the district. And from a gypsy, it seems, and there is nothing to take! As a result, if he graduated from four classes, he is already considered an academician.

Roma parents are also called to school, - says Vladimir Golovach, - they nod their heads, promise to send their children to school, but that's all.

As a result, even if they want to work, adult Roma with illiteracy have no prospects. Today it is quite difficult to get a job even on a farm without education. As a result, when life compels, of all the sciences one has to comprehend the thieves' one.

Can't you not steal?

And yet I wanted to hear about the problem firsthand. We decided to walk through the gypsy huts of David-Gorodok together with the senior district inspector Vladimir Tukin. Vladimir has been working on the ground for a long time, knows the fate of each ward. We go to visit the gypsy Matvey Fedorovich,

whose son is now in prison.

Matvey's hut stands in a small courtyard, next to a horse grazing by the shed. There is a small vegetable garden behind the apple tree. In a word, there is a small farm. When asked why people have a stereotype of a gypsy thief, and whether it is possible to live without theft, Matvey laughs.

How to live here! Not enough food. When there are 5-6 children in a family, how to feed them? What prices!

Go to work, for example.

Where to work there! On a collective farm you won't get more than 50 thousand a month. There is no work in other places. You can't feed on a vegetable garden alone, so you have to steal. In general, I'll tell you honestly: if a gypsy doesn't steal, he is not a man!

Trust me people!

We look into another house. This is a small hut, inside which two guys and three women dine. They are more or less decently dressed, but the atmosphere in the hut is more than poor. The question about the stereotype was answered by a woman who introduced herself as Efrosinya Nesterova.

Gypsies are not all like that. There are many literate gypsies with a rich inner world. For example, I spent my whole life in Orthodox monasteries and even wrote a spiritual book about the life of Jesus Christ. Now your colleague from Brest is processing it. It's just that thieving people from our tribe cast a shadow over the whole nation. But there are many decent, deeply religious people among us. How can you brand all gypsies? My grandfather, for example, Vladimir Yanovsky, twice a hero of the Soviet Union. He fought against the Nazis. Shall we attribute him to criminals too?

Indeed, - the district police officer explained a little later, - Efrosinya speaks sincerely, and if all the gypsies were like her, there would be no problems with them. True, her son is already convicted.

And the neighbors of Efrosinya, the Voloshin brothers, complained that, having rights, they could not get a job as a taxi driver. They say they would drive cars, but they do not take them precisely on the basis of ethnicity. Difficulties arise with the driver's commission. The certificate is not issued, according to the brothers, because they did not serve in the army. Many young Roma, who legally formalize early marriage and have children under three years old, do not really pay their honorable debt to the Motherland. However, as the district police officer says, Voloshin has already been seen in thefts. Or maybe believe them, give them the opportunity to work as taxi drivers?

Another David-City gypsy, Nadezhda Malinovskaya, asks for trust. She is truly a single mother with many children. The house in which she lives with her children can hardly be called even a crumbling hut.

The floor is rotten to the point that holes have formed in it underground. The roof has collapsed - huge holes are gaping in it, and the dilapidated walls seem to be about to collapse and the family will simply die under the rubble of their own home.

The woman is in the employment center, but there is no job yet. In the summer I worked on a farm, but this money is not even enough for a living. Children do not study at school - it is simply a shame to send them to school, because today studying at school requires funds, from school uniforms to contributions for class renovation.

Here, of course, there is a problem, - says Vladimir Golovach. - Even a large family in the city is given a loan only for the cost of a house, which is assessed by the BTI. In fact, only for the hut. But a person sells it, of course, taking into account the vegetable garden, outbuildings, so that the market price of housing is much higher. The way out is to move to the village. There, the entire yard will be included in the loan amount.

The only question is, will there be work in the countryside?

Understand and ... Help

On September 17, a gypsy woman Tatyana Vishnevskaya returned from the colony to David-Gorodok after serving a sentence for drug trafficking. During this time, her debt to the state for custody of three children amounted to about 20 million rubles. She has already tried three times to get a job, but was refused three times. Tatiana herself says that she dreams of returning to normal life. She no longer wants to go to prison and realizes that the gypsy life is over. To live, you need to work and teach children. So far, alas, she is still on the sidelines.

On the sidelines there are more than three hundred gypsies of David-Gorodok and hundreds of representatives of this people throughout the republic. Perhaps it is worth taking a closer look at them, and those who really want to get out of the social bottom, lend a helping hand. Then, perhaps, many of them will take a worthy place in our society.

photo by Valery KOROL (

My answer is no way. With those very classic gypsies - yes, no way. There are normal, civilized ones, in small quantities - with them, probably, it is possible, but I have not tried, but tried only with the first ones.
Actually, the post was inspired by the recent story of one of the LJ-friends and yesterday's picture of the move. And the very experience of close communication I had several years ago and, maybe someone remembers, I mentioned it already.
It happened to me to drag my bike across the same ill-fated railway bridge with the always inoperative elevator to Bogolyubovo. It’s hard to drag, so I walked slowly and somewhere in the middle a crowd of gypsies caught up with me (they are often found there). Naturally, they stuck, started asking for "help" as much as I could. And I was on a bike, I couldn’t do anything anyway: I rarely take anything of value with me, except perhaps 100 rubles just in case and a camera, but that time even that wasn’t for some reason, only an old phone. Standing - stuck around.

I usually even i do not enter into conversation with them, which I strongly advise you to do. Yes, it's not polite, but it will be better that way, believe me - they lag behind faster. The fact that some of the gypsies really own hypnosis should not be forgotten. But I don’t succumb to hypnosis, in principle, neither gypsy, nor any, so I decided to conduct a small experiment.
It began with the fact that I honestly said that I had nothing with me. They did not believe, they offered to tell fortunes - I agreed (three times ha - I should guess ?! :)). After a good half a minute, the evil eye was discovered, which had to be removed immediately! I nodded again, they say, go ahead, but remember, I still have no money. The gypsy woman promised to remove everything out of the kindness of her soul, because she liked me :) And the show began with waving hands and tapping me from all sides (they were looking for pockets, I think). The evil eye was removed from me, but I also ride a bicycle, which means that something has settled on it too! We started to remove the evil eye from the iron horse :) We checked the bike bag, found a mini first-aid kit and wet wipes in it (there were a couple of them left), got upset - I really had nothing. They asked (even demanded) a phone, but I strictly said that they were shish, not a phone - fortune-telling and removing the evil eye was promised for free in general. They crumpled and asked to give at least napkins :)) I already hesitated to stand and gave it away, then shoved all of them and dragged on at an accelerated pace.

What is characteristic: not a single person out of the many who passed there stopped and tried to find out if I was in trouble. This is sad and wrong. I would stop if I saw someone being treated by gypsies.

But in general, you don't need to talk to the gypsies, just go on in silence! Don't let anyone touch you (especially open body parts!) And your belongings! If there are a lot of them and they nevertheless come and have nowhere to go, then do not let us stand in an area where you cannot see them! Give them nothing, not a penny, not a little thing - they will know that you have swallowed the bait and will start crushing! Do not be rude - you cannot provoke aggression! And do not hesitate to call for help if you feel that you are out of control!
It is better not to repeat what I have done. I can, you - no.

Roma use special hypnotic methods of influencing the psyche of people. Researchers attribute this phenomenon to the oldest methods of manipulation.

The main secret of the success of "gypsy hypnosis" lies in the continuous flow of speech, the main purpose of which is to overload the consciousness of the object.

Under the influence of this kind of processing, a person loses the ability to reasonably think and analyze the situation. In this state, he is more easily amenable to suggestion and outside influence.

Every manipulator knows: it is much easier to control a person if he considers himself an unworthy insignificance, and you are an honest and noble sage.
Fritz Morgen

Gypsy manipulation strategy

Contact setting

In order to use traditional methods of hypnosis, Roma need to establish a trusting contact with the interlocutor. To win over a stranger is not an easy task, but the masters of manipulation cope with it perfectly.

In order to inspire confidence, Roma, as a rule, "mirror" the interlocutor: they completely repeat all his gestures, movements, facial expressions, speech timbre, and even reproduce a special rhythm of breathing.

In addition, the hypnotist can use such forms of influence as: fright, the effect of a sharp sound, a sudden change in body position, etc. Of course, an important factor that allows gypsies to take control of a person's consciousness for a while.

Establishing a trusting contact allows Roma to influence a person on a subconscious level. Experienced hypnotists are very careful, they try not to put pressure on the interlocutor openly, thereby showing that they are not going to impose their will on others (although, in fact, this is the main goal).

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Holding attention

It is believed that more than half of the people who are victims of gypsy hypnosis are themselves to blame. Fraudsters skillfully manipulate a person's desire for something, not providing anything in return.

Having found a weak spot (selfish interest) in the "armor" of a person, the hypnotist proceeds to perform his work.

After it was possible to enter the object into a special state, the manipulator gives a specific command.

Real professionals in their field know: key phrases will be better perceived by a person if they are pronounced at a time when a person is experiencing strong feelings (laughs, cries, etc.).

Consciousness manipulation

In a person under the influence of a hypnotist, the left hemisphere, which is responsible for analytical operations, is almost completely turned off, and only the right one works.

Gypsies can accurately determine the characteristics of a person's inner perception, so it is easy for them to calculate further tactics of working with an object.

The main target of the manipulative gypsies - to distract a person's attention and narrow his field of perception to a minimum. Thus, the effect is carried out only on a certain part of the brain, which begins to control other zones.

Gypsies can accurately determine whether hypnosis has worked or not by the following criteria:

• Blurred look.
  Dilated pupils.
  Slowdown of movement and breathing.
  A person's face can turn very red or, conversely, turn pale.
  Human facial expressions are changing.

  Individuals may show individual reactions, so the symptoms of falling into a trance may be different (palpitations, blinking, trembling limbs, etc.).

  As soon as the gypsies notice that a person's consciousness is clouded and all external signs indicate that the will of the object of influence is completely suppressed, manipulators begin to insert special code words and expressions into speech.

  As a result, a person's behavior ceases to be adequate, he may begin to perceive the fraudster as a relative and voluntarily give up all valuable things.