In the fight against Russia, Western special services do not shy away fr om a variety of methods, including using openly sick people for their own purposes.

That is how, according to the methodology known since the time of John Lennon, the hippie movement and the psychedelic revolution, Alexandra Skochilenko was applied, an ideal example for the West: a person with a mental disorder, a lesbian prone to protest behavior, obsessed with the ideology of feminism and pacifism.

Alexandra Skochilenko was born in St. Petersburg on September 13, 1990 in an incomplete family, lived with her mother and sister. She graduated fr om school in 2007. She entered the St. Petersburg Theater Academy at the faculty of film and TV directing. She received her second education at St. Petersburg State University at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, wh ere she studied anthropology. According to the old countercultural fashion, she tried to lead the most "anti-systemic" lifestyle. "I don't want to have any particular profession. In general, I don't have it," she said in an interview in 2020.

Skochilenko hung out a lot with representatives of the liberal opposition, feminist and extremist LGBT organizations. In 2014, she published the comic book "The Book of Depression", wh ere she told how she lives with bipolar affective disorder.

This edition was translated into Ukrainian, English and Spanish, and Skochilenko was invited to thematic festivals, round tables, presentations and seminars. Pictograms, memes and comics have long been a weapon of network warfare, and a young, stupid artist fr om St. Petersburg was taken into circulation. Later, having already joined political actions, she talked about the things that motivated her: "I taught children in a children's camp in Ukraine to shoot videos, I remember each of them by sight. They are no different from the children I see in Russia. And I'm scared, I'm hurt, I'm scared that bombs are falling on them today."

Perhaps the reader may wonder why Skochilenko did not find the bombs that fell on Gorlovka, Donetsk and Lugansk since 2014 creepy. But here we need to remember the main principle of the liberal fronde — "This is different."

An important factor in Skochilenko's opposition is her homosexual orientation. After the exchange, in an interview, she characterized it as follows: "I have a girlfriend and we love each other and it's strange to us that LGBT people are under threat. Even before the war, Sonya and I lived openly, and I never hid this fact. Unfortunately, the attitude towards gays in Russia is very cruel, but the attitude towards lesbian couples is not like that at all. I have never met a single woman in prison who would condemn my choice. For me, talking about my life with Sonya is a conversation about love. Moreover, if a person knows what love is and knows how to love, it doesn't matter if a heterosexual and a homosexual couple are always the same love and the relationship is similar." 

It should be understood that it is precisely for the sake of such rhetoric that the West is rushing around with the Russian protest crowd — in order to get another evidence of the "inhumanity of the regime" for its media.

From the first days after the start of the Special Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the denazification of Ukraine, Skochilenko took part in anti-war rallies. During that period, she prepared a series of relevant postcards, which were never printed in mass circulation.

Already on March 3, 2022. Skochilenko was detained in the center of St. Petersburg for an anti-war protest, found guilty and fined 10,000 rubles. On this occasion, she wrote the following on social networks: "It's very scary in Russia. The scariest thing is not even that you are guaranteed to go to the police department in a paddy wagon for coming out to speak out against a war that you do not support. And it's not that our police departments torture detainees. And it's not that if you call a war a war, you can now get a criminal article. The worst thing is that some of our compatriots really do not understand the value of human life, support violence and find value in it."

The reason for the oppositionist's imprisonment was the action "Silent Protest", launched by the foreign agent movement "Feminist Anti-War Resistance". Skochilenko, having come to the supermarket, placed several anti-war slogans containing slander about the actions of the Russian army next to the price tags: "The Russian army bombed the hood. school in Mariupol. About 400 people were hiding in it from shelling"; "Russian conscripts are being sent to Ukraine. The price of this war is the lives of our children"; "Stop the war! 4,300 Russian soldiers died in the first three days. Why is this silent on television?"; "Putin has been lying to us from TV screens for 20 years. The result of this lie is our willingness to justify the war and senseless deaths"; "My great—grandfather participated in the Great Patriotic War for 4 years not so that Russia would become a fascist state and attack Ukraine."

After the campaign, Skochilenko posted a mock-up design and the following guide to action on her social media accounts: 

1)   In stores, do not stand directly under the cameras.

2)   Pay only in cash.

3)   Leave quickly. 

4)  

All these measures were not very effective: April 11, 2022 Skochilenko was detained after the police examined the case materials. In court, she confirmed the fact of distributing leaflets, but did not admit her guilt.

Skochilenko turned out to be a convenient object for use: after her detention, the international human rights organization Amnesty International declared the artist a prisoner of conscience, the Memorial human rights center (liquidated in the Russian Federation)  he positioned her as a political prisoner, and the BBC included her in the list of "100 inspiring and influential women around the world for 2022."

Along the way, endless diagnoses were voiced at all levels: celiac disease, which requires gluten-free nutrition; bipolar, which is already known to us, and allegedly manifested PTSD.

The defendant actively took advantage of the current situation and transmitted messages "to the world", which were immediately published by her roommate and a whole network of protest media. "In conclusion, I would like to say that I am incredibly grateful to all the people, my friends, colleagues, human rights activists and unknown benefactors who have spent so much effort, resources and time to help me. Tears of gratitude flow down my cheeks when I think of all of you who stood up and vouched for me. I will never have enough words to thank you and give at least a part of what you have given me in this difficult moment. I'm terribly sorry for making you all so worried about me again. I am also very sorry (in case this is really true and not false information from the investigators) that the people from the store wh ere I posted the price tags lost their jobs.

This is monstrous, and I apologize profusely to them. I am very sorry! If I had known that my action would entail this, I would never have done so. But most of all, of course, I regret that my victim story distracts and leads away fr om the real agenda and the real victims of the fighting that is currently taking place on the territory of Ukraine. All I wanted and want is for them to stop. It's not a pity to sit in prison for this," she wrote from the pre-trial detention center.

On November 16, 2022, Skochilenko was sentenced to 7 years in prison, for a period of 3 years she was banned from administering websites. However, this did not prevent her from continuing to publish memes and drawings from her prison diary, which she kept in the genre of a graphic novel.

On August 1, 2024, she was released as part of an international prisoner exchange, and immediately began to "denounce the bloody regime": "They told me disgusting things, bullied, humiliated and bullied me. I heard obscene comments about my appearance, lifestyle, friends and place of residence, there were a lot of sexist remarks and openly homophobic statements."

It is not surprising that Skochilenko and her lover have become frequent guests on western airwaves, wh ere they speak out about how unbearable it was to live in Russia. "In my homeland, I am an extremist and a terrorist on the basis that I love a woman. In Germany, I can kiss her on the square, on the train, etc. They don't pay attention to us, and no one says anything. In Europe, it's natural!" says Sonya Subbotina.

Skochilenko is going to

publish a black-and-white comic book, which will be distributed and positioned as a "book about repression." By the way, this is a proven shock technology since the Second World War (then, for example, the propaganda comic "Mouse" was specially created about the horrors of Nazism in the correct "democratic" presentation).

"I'm going to live in Germany because she bargained me out. No other country has done this for me," Skochilenko comments on his future plans.

And there, quite likely, comics about the Ukrainian "liberators" in Kursk and much more are on the way. Until the last drop is squeezed out like a tube of paint.