Lies A.I. Solzhenitsyna. Why was the "Gulag Archipelago"

Now I finally understood why Solzhenitsyn is so much unscrupulous: “The Gulag Archipelago” was written not to tell the truth about camp life, but in order to inspire the reader with aversion to Soviet power.

Solzhenitsyn honestly worked his 30 silverniks for a lie, thanks to which the Russians began to hate their past and destroyed their country with their own hands. People without the past - a garbage on their land. The substitution of history is one of the ways of waging a Cold War against Russia.

The story of how the former Kolyma convicts discussed the "Gulag Archipelago" A.I. Solzhenitsyna

This happened in 1978 or 1979 in the Sanatorium-Gryazelechebnitsa "Talay", located about 150 km from Magadan. I arrived there from the Chukotka town of Pvek, where I worked and lived since 1960. The patients met and converged for pastime in the dining room, where each was assigned a place at the table. Four days before the end of my course of treatment at our table, a "new" appeared - Mikhail Romanov. He started this discussion. But first briefly about its participants.

Semen Nikiforovich was called the senior in age - so he all grandmothers, his surname was not preserved in his memory. He is the "peer of the October", so he was already retired. But he continued to work with a night mechanic in a large auto -line. He was brought to Kolyma in 1939. In 1948, Ivan Nazarov was the following age, born in 1922. He was brought to Kolyma in 1947. He was released in 1954. He worked as a "pilot adjuster." Third - Misha Romanov, my same age, born in 1927. He was brought to Kolyma in 1948. He freed himself in 1956. He worked as a bulldozer in road management. The fourth was me, who got into these lands voluntarily, on recruiting. Since I lived among the former convicts for 20 years, they considered me a full -fledged participant in the discussion.


I don’t know who was convicted for anything. It was not customary to talk about this. But it was clear that all three were not blatari, not recidivists. In the camp hierarchy, it was "men." Each of them was destined to “get a deadline” once by fate and, having served it, voluntarily take root in Kolyma. None of them had higher education, but were quite well -read, especially novels: he had a newspaper, a magazine or a book in his hands all the time. In general, these were ordinary Soviet citizens and even almost did not use camps and expressions.

On the eve of my departure, during the dinner of Romanov, he said the following: “I was just out of vacation that spent in Moscow with relatives. My nephew Kolya, a student of the pedagogical institute, gave me the underground edition of Solzhenitsyn’s book“ Archipelago Gulag ”. I read and, returning the book, said Kolya, that there were many fables and lies. I agree to discuss this book with those who were in the camps with Solzhenitsyn. I noted in it. " Then Romanov showed a notebook and asked: would his new acquaintances agree to satisfy the request of his beloved nephew? Everyone agreed.

The victims of the camps

After dinner, we gathered with Romanov.

“I'll start,” he said, “from two events that journalists call“ fried facts ”. Although the first event would be more correct to call a fact that the ice cream. “These events:“ They say that in December 1928, on Krasnaya Gorka (Karelia), prisoners (did not fulfill the lesson) left the night in the forest and 150 people froze to death. This is a regular Solovetsky reception, you won’t be more difficult to believe another story that the Kutinsky tract in February 1929 was a company of prisoners, 100 people, for failure to fulfill the norm, were driven to the fire, and they burned down. " [1]

As soon as Romanov fell silent, Semyon Nikiforovich exclaimed:

- Parasha! .. No! .. A pure whistle! - and looked inquiringly at Nazarov. He nodded:

- Yeah! Camp folklore in its pure form.

(On the Kolyma camp, "Parasha" means an inaccurate hearing. And "whistle" - deliberate lies). And everyone was silent ... Romanov looked around everyone and said:

- Guys, everything is so. But, Semyon Nikiforovich, suddenly some sucker who did not sniff through camp life, will ask why the whistle. Couldn't this be in Solovetsky camps? What would you answer him?

Semyon Nikiforovich thought a little and answered like this:

- It's not that Solovetsky is a camp or Kolyma. And the fact that not only wild animals, but also man are afraid of fire. After all, how many cases were when, in a fire, people jumped out of the upper floors of the house and crashed to death, just not to burn alive. And then I have to believe that several lousy vertukhaev (convoy) managed to drive a hundred convicts into the fire?! Yes, the most cluttered zek-income, will prefer to be shot, but will not jump into the fire. What to say! If Vertukhai, with his five -shot farts (after all, there were no machine guns then), started a game with jumps in the fire with convicts, then they themselves would have ended up in the fire. In short, this "fried fact" is the inexpensive invention of Solzhenitsyn. Now about the "ice cream fact." It is not clear here what it means "left in the forest"? What, the guard went to spend the night in the barracks? .. So this is the blue dream of Zekov! Especially thieves - they would instantly find themselves in the nearest village. And so they would “freeze” that the inhabitants of the village of Sky with a sheepskin seemed. Well, if the guard remained, then, of course, she would divorce bonfires for her own heating ... And here such a “movie” turns out: several bonfires are on in the forest, forming a large circle. Each circle has one and a half hundred hefty men with axes and saws in their hands calmly and silently freeze. They freeze to death! .. Misha! Question to backfill: how long can such a "movie" last?

“I see,” said Romanov. - Only a bookworm that has never seen not only the convicts, but also an ordinary forest can believe in such a “movie”. We agree that both "fried facts", in essence, is the nonsense of the blue mare.

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

“I,” Nazarov spoke, “already“ fed ”in the honesty of Solzhenitsyn.” After all, as a former convict, he cannot help but understand that the essence of these fairy tales does not fit with the schedule of the life of the Gulag. Having a ten -year experience of camp life, he, of course, knows that suicide bombers are not taken to the camps. And the verdict is executed in other places. Of course, he knows that any camp is not only a place where the convicts are “pulling the deadline”, but also the economic unit with their work plan. Those. The camp is a production facility where the convicts are employees, and the authorities are managing production. And if somewhere the plan is “burning”, then the camp authorities can sometimes lengthen the working day of the convicts. Such a violation of the Gulag regime often happened. But in order to destroy their workers to companies, this is a fool, for which the authorities themselves would certainly be cruelly punished. Until the execution. Indeed, in Stalin's times, discipline was asked not only from ordinary citizens, the demand from the authorities was even stricter. And if, knowing all this, Solzhenitsyn inserts fables into his book, then it is clear that this book is not written in order to tell the truth about the life of the Gulag. And for what - I have not yet understood. So let's continue.

“Continue,” said Romanov. - Here is another horror story: “In the fall of 1941, Pecheryg (railway) had a list of 50 thousand, in the spring - 10 thousand. During this time, not a single stage went anywhere - where did 40 thousand go?” [2].

Here is such a terrible mystery, ”Romanov finished. Everyone thought ...

“I don’t understand the humor,” Semyon Nikiforovich broke the silence. - Why should the reader make riddles? I would tell it myself what was there ...

And he looked inquiringly at Romanov.

- Here, apparently, there is a literary technique in which the reader seems to be said: the matter is so simple that any sucker will realize what's what. Say, comments from ...

- Stop! It came, ”exclaimed Semyon Nikiforovich. - Here is a "subtle hint of thick circumstances." Say, since the railway camp, then 40 thousand convicts in one winter were diluted on the construction of the road. Those. Bones of 40 thousand convicts rest under the sleepers of the built road. I have to figure it out, and should you believe it?

“It looks like so,” Romanov answered.

- Great! How much is it a day? 40 thousand in 6-7 months - it means more than 6 thousand per month, and that means more than 200 souls (two companies!) Per day ... Ah yes Alexander Isaich! Ah yes bitch son! Yes, he is Hitler ... Ugh ... Goebbels surpassed the lie. Remember? Goebbels in 1943 announced the whole world that in 1941 the Bolsheviks shot 10 thousand prisoners of the Poles, who, in fact, were diluted. But everything is clear with the Nazis. Trying to save their skin, they tried to quarrel the USSR with allies with this lies. Why does Solzhenitsyn try for the sake of? After all, 2 hundreds of ruined souls per day, record ...

- Wait! - interrupted him Romanov. Records are still ahead. You better tell me, why don't you believe what evidence you have?

- Well, I have no direct evidence. And there are serious considerations. And here. Great mortality in the camps came only from malnutrition. But not so big! There is a conversation about winter 41 years old. And I testify: in the first military winter there was still normal nutrition in the camps. This is, firstly. Secondly. Pecherlag, of course, built the railway on Vorkuta - there is nowhere to build more there. During the war, it was a task of particular importance. So the demand from the camp bosses was especially strict. And in such cases, the authorities are trying to get additional food for their employees. And there it was probably. So we talk about hunger at this construction site is to deliberately lie. And the last. Mortality in 200 souls per day can not hide any secrecy. And not with us, so for a hillock a seal would have informed about it. And in the camps about such messages they certainly found out quickly. I testify to this too. But I have never heard anything about high mortality in Pechelag. I have everything.

Romanov looked inquiringly at Nazarov.

“I seem to know a solution,” he said. - I got to Kolyma from Vorkutlag, where I stayed for 2 years. So, now I remembered: many old -timers said that they got into Vorkutlag after the construction of the railway, and used to be listed as a cocked. Therefore, they did not transfer anywhere. That's all.

“Logically,” said Romanov. - First, Gurt was built by Gurt. Then, most of the Rabsil was thrown on the construction of mines. After all, a mine is not just a hole in the ground, and on the surface you need to put a lot of things so that the coal "goes to the mountain". And the country became oh as needed. After all, then Donbass had Hitler's Donbass. In general, Solzhenitsyn was clearly chewing here, making a horror story from the numbers. Well, okay, we will continue.

Victims of cities

Here is another digital mystery: “It is believed that a quarter of Leningrad was planted in 1934-1935. Let the one who owns the exact figure and give it to this assessment” [3]. Your word, Semyon Nikiforovich.

- Well, here it is said about those who were taken in the "case of Kirov." There were really more of them than could be guilty of Kirov's death. They just began to plant Trotskyists under the noise. But a quarter of Leningrad, of course, is an impudent overkill. Or rather, let our friend say - the St. Petersburg proletarian (so Semyon Nikiforovich sometimes jokingly dignified me). You were there then.

I had to tell me.

Then I was 7 years old. And I just remember only mourning beeps. On the one hand, the beeps of the Bolshevik plant were heard, and on the other, the beeps of steam locomotives from the Sortirovoye station. So, strictly speaking, neither an eyewitness nor a witness, I cannot be. But I also think that the number of those arrested by Solzhenitsyn is fantastically overstated. Only here the science fiction is not scientific, but the pro -Chindic. That Solzhenitsyn is dark here, it is evident at least from what requires an exact figure to refute (knowing that there is nowhere to take it to the reader), and he calls the fractional number a quarter. Therefore, we’ll clarify the matter, see what it means in the integer “quarter of Leningrad”. At that time, about 2 million people lived in the city. So, "quarter" is 500 thousand! In my opinion, this is such a pro-Chindic figure that nothing else needs to be proved.
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