A system of disposal — that’s what total filters of injustice look like: when the “system” works not to protect, but to write people off. How inhuman does it have to be to prepare for the destruction of those who, first and foremost, deserve treatment and the care of the state when necessary? This story is not about abstract mistakes. It’s about a man on the edge of life and death: HIV infection, stage 3; guardianship pressure and the fear of losing the right to raise three minor children; “proper” certificates instead of the truth; and an attempt to send “ballast” to a mission from which people don’t come back.
Yuri sums it up in a single sentence that sounds like a verdict: “I had to sign the contract and go to serve, otherwise they would have taken my children away.”
Luginin Yuri Maksimovich is serving under contract in the 1445th Motor Rifle Regiment (military unit 95387). The man says he was forced to sign a contract despite being ill with HIV infection. He did it so that he would not be deprived of parental rights for three minor children.
According to Yuri, before signing the contract he did not hide his diagnosis: he warned officials, brought test results, and explained the risks. But at the enlistment office, his words seemed not to exist — paperwork that could be “processed” the way the system needed mattered more. He claims his warnings were ignored, and the medical documents were issued as if there were no illness at all.
“I warned everyone at the enlistment office, warned them at the hospital <…> But no one paid attention. They said the certificates would show it, the tests would give results, everything would be visible there. But in the end, after 5–10 minutes, somehow—strangely—the certificates were already done with the test results. And those certificates stated that I was healthy as an ox, that I had to serve <…> At the enlistment office I also said that I have an infection, HIV. They told me: well, the certificates no longer say you have this disease, so you’re healthy.”
This is exactly that “filter of injustice”: when reality — the diagnosis, the tests, the risk to life — is screened out, and only the convenient version moves upward, where a person is “fit” and “healthy.” And then the system acts logically — but logically for a mechanism that doesn’t heal, it disposes.
Yuri says that in the unit, when his diagnosis became known, the attitude changed: instead of ensuring treatment and removing him from a life-threatening situation, they decided to get rid of him as unnecessary cargo.
“I went to serve under contract, but they found out that I’m sick, and they decided to get rid of me like ballast. They put me on a motorcycle and said: arm yourself and go look for ours.”
Later he was sent again to a medical commission (VVK). According to him, the commission assigned him category “D,” meaning “unfit.” It should have been the end point: a document meant to protect his life. But in Yuri’s story, even category “D” did not become a stop signal — he was sent back to the unit as if the commission’s conclusion meant nothing.
“I’m unfit, category ‘D,’ unfit. But no one pays attention to that. And now they’re, so to speak, also winding me up together with the guys. I show them these documents, they don’t pay attention.”
As a result, a man with a serious diagnosis says he is trapped: to survive and take his therapy, he is forced to periodically go AWOL (SOCh), because otherwise his condition can deteriorate sharply. But that becomes another round of pressure: the system does not provide treatment — the person has to save himself, risking consequences.
“I show them these documents, they don’t pay attention. I’m at the second-to-last stage of HIV infection. Tuberculosis can open up at any moment, and I won’t even know it. I have three small children, minors, and two of them are still preschool age.”
And here the question is no longer only to specific officials, but to the very logic of the structure: how did it become possible that fear of guardianship and threats of losing parental rights turn into a tool of coercion? How can medical documents “accidentally” turn a person with HIV into someone “healthy as an ox”? How can a person remain disposable even after a medical commission declares him unfit?
Yuri survived despite the system’s efforts — and now he is trying to challenge its desire to treat his life as expendable, while understanding that time is against him.
Source: the Telegram channel “DON’T EXPECT Good News”.
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