In each man s case Judge McDonald took two years jail as the starting point for sentence. For gathering poppies and trying to make an ersatz opiate from it. But these poor bastards could well have spent the day brewing and baking and stewing and fricasseeing and ended up with nothing. It takes a field of poppies to yield even a few hours of relief. But one is not supposed to want relief.
Alcohol is in tune with the horror, celebrates it, wallows in it.
Perhaps they re right to suppress it. But they can t tell you to say No. The poppy has preempted that. National-Bolshevik Party leader and eXile columnist Edward Limonov has been locked up in Lefortovo.