The diary of the overseer. Notes of the Gulag guard became one of the most read Russian books in the West
The prisoners of Bamlag align the embankment. Mid-1930s. “It seems that it is not a living normal world around, but something strange, unearthly, where, although I live, I can think, but not express my thoughts aloud. I’m moving, but all this is limited. We must gravitate the Revolutionary Sword with all my deeds. It’s always not connected, it’s impossible, and you feel more mentally with society, but you are separated by an insurmountable, although fragile partition.