A long and compelling monologue by a prosecutor’s office employee from St. Petersburg. If you know people in the Interior Ministry (MVD), the prosecutor’s office, or the FSB and have talked with them, you’ll recognize right away that this monologue is genuine.
Once you start talking frankly about life with an ordinary cop or prosecutor’s office employee, they all tell roughly the same story:
there’s no money; for an ordinary employee, it’s now hard either to steal or to make money on the side; the bosses rake in millions, but it’s hard to break into those ranks; the workday has no fixed hours; 90% of the time is spent on pointless work that nobody needs.
About our investigation into Chaika, this prosecutor’s office employee says the same thing as everyone else I’ve spoken to:
Everything in the film is true. I could give you enough material for another film like it myself, but what can I do? I’m a small person.
In short, give it a read—another manifesto of the system’s decay.