Chapter 46 Chapter 15 Punishment Compartment, Forced Control Shed, Forced Control Area

Among the many welcome renunciations that the New World brings us—the renunciation of exploitation, of colonies, of universal service obligation, of secret diplomacy, of secret appointments and transfers, of secret police, of religious instruction, and many other wonderful ones To renounce—to be sure, not yet to renounce the prison (the walls of the prison were not torn down, but to add a "new class content"), but to renounce the solitary cell, no doubt—that can only be done in the ferocious and surly minds of bourgeois jailers. The cruel and tormenting things that come out of it.Although the 1924 Reform-through-Labor Code allowed prisoners with special faults to be locked up in single cells, it specifically warned that such single cells should not in the slightest be reminiscent of solitary confinement—it should be dry. , bright and equipped with bedding.

The (ineffective) 1933 Labor Reform Code, in force until the early sixties, was much more humane: it even banned segregation in single cells. But this is not because the times have become more tolerant, but because by this time, other methods of punishment in the labor camps have been mastered through experimentation. At this time, it is not loneliness that makes people uncomfortable, but "group ", and the punished shall go through Strong control company - strengthened control company, later replaced by Strong control sheds-enhanced control work sheds, disciplinary work classes, and

Strong control area-strengthen control area and punishment dispatch point. Later, without knowing it, it was added--not the brig, no!but-- Punishment Compartment - Punishment isolation room. If the prisoner is no longer intimidated, if no punishment can be imposed on him--how can he be compelled to obey the rules? Captured fugitives - where to lock them up? Close the compartment for what?Everything: I didn’t like the commander, greeted inappropriately, didn’t get up in time, didn’t lie down in time, was late for the roll call, walked the wrong way, dressed inappropriately, smoked in the wrong place, kept in the shed The extra things - I will give you one day and night, three days and nights, and five days and nights.Not fulfilling the quota, finding out with a woman -- give you five days, seven days, ten days.Fifteen days and nights are also given to prisoners who refuse to work.Although according to the law (according to what law?) in any case, it cannot exceed fifteen days and nights (but according to the labor reform code, even fifteen days and nights are not allowed!), the bellows of this accordion can be stretched to a year.In Dmitrag in 1932 (Avelbach writes this, it's in black and white!), a year of solitary confinement for self-harm!If you remember that self-injury is not treated, then it means that the injured person is put in a confinement room for a year of torture!

What should the punishment compartment look like?It should be: ① cold; ② damp; ③ dark; ④ hungry.So no stove was fired in the prison cell (according to Lipai: even when it was minus thirty degrees outside), and the windows were not glazed in winter to dampen the walls (or the confinement cellar was built on wet soil).Windows are pitifully small or nonexistent (often).What you eat is Stalin's ration - 300 grams a day. "Hot food", that is, clear water and rotten vegetable soup, is only served on the third, sixth, and ninth days after you are imprisoned.However, in Vorkuta-Vom they were given only 200 grams of bread, and on the third day they were given not hot food but a piece of raw fish.All confinement weights should be conceived as being somewhere in between the above two.

It would be naive to think that a solitary cell must be like a prison cell—with a roof, a door, and a lock.Not at all!In Kuranah-Sara, the solitary confinement is a mossy log cage at -50 degrees. (Freeman doctor Andreyev said: "As a doctor, I declare that it is possible to squat in such a confinement room!") Let's jump from one end of the archipelago to the other: in 1937 in Vaughan Erkuta Worm, the confinement cells for those who refuse to work are cages without a roof, and ordinary pits.Arnold Rappoport lived in such a pit (stretched with a rag to keep out the rain), as Diogen lived in a barrel.This is how the meal is served: a guard came out of the duty room with a ration of bread, and called the prisoners who were locked in the cage: "Come and get the ration!" The sentinel raised his rifle: "Stop, I'm going to shoot!" The guard expressed surprise: "Why, you don't want bread anymore? Well, I'm leaving."--Sending food to the pit is simply to put bread And fish are thrown from above onto the rain-soaked mud.

In the Maliin camp (and of course in many other camps) the walls of the confinement cells were covered with snow - they were not allowed to wear the prison uniforms of the camp, but only their underwear .Every half an hour the guard opened the food delivery port and persuaded Shweder: "Hey, you can't take it, you will die! It's better to go to the lumberyard!" Shweder made up his mind, yes, here If you stay here, you will probably die!So he went to the forest.During the twelve and a half years in the labor camp, Shweder spent a total of 148 days and nights in the confinement room.There are all kinds of reasons for being punished!For refusing to go to "India" (thieves' sheds) for duty, he got six months in a penal camp.Because he refused to be transferred from the agricultural dispatch point to the lumber field-according to Article 58-14, he was sentenced to the second crime of economic counter-revolution and got a new ten years.A thief who doesn't want to go to a correctional labor camp can punch the captain of the escort and knock out the revolver in his hand-and he won't be sent to be punished.There is no way out for a political prisoner - he has to have his head between his legs!In Kolyma in 1938, the solitary cells for thieves had furnaces, which were very different from those for Article 58 prisoners.

Forced control shed - the detention time will be longer.It is about one month, three months, half a year, one year, and often no futures.As long as a certain country criminal is considered to be dangerous, it can constitute a reason to lock him up.Once you are on the blacklist, something will happen to you in the future: every May Day or October Revolution Day, every escape or extraordinary incident in the labor camp, you will be locked up in a forced control shed just in case. Strong tube shed - can be the most common work shed separated by barbed wire.The prisoners in it were sent to do the heaviest and most annoying work in the labor camp.It can also be a stone cell in the camp with all the prison rules: in the guard room, the prisoners who pass in one by one are beaten (in order not to leave marks, it is better to beat with felt boots with bricks); There are door bolts, iron locks and monitoring holes. The cells have a concrete floor, and there are separate confinement cells for punishing prisoners in the strong control shed.

Exactly this is the case with the strong tube sheds of Ekbastus (however there is also the first type there).There, prisoners were kept in unbedded cells (sleeping on the floor with overcoats and cotton vests).The iron cage mouth completely covered the small window next to the ceiling.Small holes were pierced with nails on the iron plate, but these small holes were also blocked by snow in winter, and the cell was completely dark.There are no electric lights during the day, so the day is darker than the night.There was never any ventilation.The wind was not released once every six months (in 1950).Therefore, our forced-management huts can be compared with the vicious prisons. I don’t know what traces of labor camps are still left here.All the urine and urine are in the cell, and they are not taken out to use the toilet.Going outside to empty the toilet is the happiness of the cell on duty: it can breathe a breath of fresh air.As for going to the shower room - that's a common program for everyone.The cell was so crowded that I could only lie down, with no place to stretch my arms and legs.Just close the first half of the year.Rotten vegetable soup-clear water, bread-600 grams, tobacco leaves-none at all.If a mail package arrives from someone's home, and he happens to be squatting in the stronghold.Then, anything that is perishable will be expressly "scrapped" (the supervisors swallow it themselves, or sell it cheaply to the handymen), and the rest will be handed over to the safekeeping room for several months. (When these forced prisoners are taken out to work later, in order not to be locked up again, they have to work harder.)

In this state of suffocation and immobility, the prisoners were tortured to the point of exhaustion.The thieves are neurotic, obstinate people, more than anyone else in this respect (the thieves who fall into the Ecbastus are also considered to be the fifty-eight prisoners, and they are not tolerated) .The most popular thing among the inmates of the forced-tube shed - swallowing the aluminum spoons given to them for meals.Every prisoner who swallowed a spoon was taken for a X-ray, convinced that he was not lying and that there was indeed a spoon in his belly-and sent to the hospital for a gastrotomy.Lyoshka Karnovush swallowed three times, and there was nothing left in his stomach.Korka Salopayev feigned madness: he hanged himself during the night, but his companions "discovered" as agreed, broke the rope - and he was taken to the hospital.And someone else: Stain a thread in the mouth (pull it through the teeth), thread the needle, and pass it under the skin of one leg.Infect!Hospital! --Never mind gangrene or not, as long as you can get out.

But in order to extract some fruits of labor from the punished prisoners, the masters had to put them in a separate punishment area (forced control area). Soup to drink), low rations.The windows of the shower room do not even have glass in winter, and the female barber wears cotton trousers and a cotton vest to cut the hair of the naked prisoners.There may not be a cafeteria, but the rotten vegetable soup will not be distributed in the shed, but next to the kitchen. After receiving it, you must go through the cold open air to take it back to the work shed. When you get there, the rotten vegetable soup is already cold.Prisoners were dying in large numbers, and the inpatient department was full of dying patients.

When in the future just enumerating the punishment area is enough to constitute a historical study, not to mention it is not easy to figure it out, everything will be obliterated. These are the jobs assigned to the disciplinary area.Go to a place thirty-five kilometers away from the district to mow grass, live there in a leaky straw hut, mow grass in swamps, and your feet are always soaked in water. (When encountering kind-hearted soldiers in custody, prisoners can eat berries, and soldiers with high vigilance shoot and kill people, but some still eat because they want to eat!) The silage is also stored in those swamps There are swarms of mosquitoes, but there is no protection method. (The face and neck were bitten off, full of scars, eyelids swollen, and the person was almost blind.) --Excavation of peat in the Vichegda river beach: the frozen mud layer was chiseled and uncovered with a heavy hammer , Remove, take out the melted peat from below, then load the sled, and pull it to the high ground one kilometer away (the battalion is reluctant to bear the horses).Ordinary earthworkers ("earthwork" solitary labor site near Vorkuta) also had a customary disciplinary labor - open pit mining of lime and burnt lime, and stone quarrying.Impossible - list them all.The hardest of all hard labors, the most painful of painful labors—this is disciplinary labor.Each camp had its own set of disciplinary labor. The convicts sent to the correctional wards are usually; religious, recalcitrant prisoners, and thieves (yes, thieves, because the lack of perseverance of the local educators has ruined the great educational system here and imprisoned there. "Nuns" who refused to work for the devil in full sheds (they were locked up in knee-deep solitary cells in the correctional camp for detainees at the Pechora State Farm. In the autumn of 1941 they were given five 18-14 verdicts, all shot.) Priest Viktor Spovalnikov was sent to the penal ward "for religious propaganda" ("all-night prayer" for five female hygienists on Easter Eve). Daredevil engineers and other unscrupulous intellectuals were sent there. Captured fugitives were also sent there. Those close to society who were not at all willing to merge with the ideology of the proletariat were also sent with gritted teeth ( Classification is a complex mental exercise, and we do not blame camp leaders for sometimes inadvertently making mistakes: for example, two carts were dispatched from Calabasas, one loaded with religious women to take care of camp children in a children's village, and one Cars loaded with thieves and convicts with syphilis went to the penal area of ​​Dolinka - Konsbai. But they misplaced their things in the car, so the thieves with syphilis went to look after the children, and the "nuns" I went to the punishment area. I remembered it later, so I stayed like this). Often sent to the punishment area for refusing to act as an eyeliner.Most of them died in the punishment area, and of course they would not tell what happened to them.The murderer operatives don't even talk about them.Soil scientist Grigoriev was sent for this reason, but he survived.Elmar Nuggis, editor of the Estonian agricultural magazine, was also sent to the punishment area for this reason. Here are some more events related to women.It is impossible to make careful and strict judgments about these events, because there are always some hidden factors behind them that we don't know.However, here is an experience told by Irina Nagel herself.She worked as a typist in the administrative department of the Ukhta State Farm, that is, as a handyman who found a comfortable position.She was well-groomed and stocky, with thick braids coiled around her head, somewhat for mobility, in a pair of knickerbockers and a ski-like top.Those who know life in the labor camps will understand what a temptation it is.Lieutenant Sidorenko, an operator, wanted to have a more intimate relationship with her. Nagel replied, "I would rather let the last pickpocket kiss me! Why are you not ashamed, your little baby is crying next door!" After she nailed it, the operative suddenly turned around and said, "Do you think I like you? I just want to test you. That's it. You will cooperate with us in the future." She refused and was sent to punishment Re-education through labor. Here's what Nagel saw on his first night in the corrections area: female thieves and "nuns" lived mixed together in the female prisoners' shed.Five girls walked around wrapped in sheets: the female thieves had lost everything on these girls in a game of cards last night and let them take them off and hand them over.Suddenly, a group of male thieves in village trousers and fine felt hats broke in with a guitar.They sang their own thieves serenade or something.Suddenly, another group of male thieves broke in angrily.They seized one of their girls, threw her on the ground, beat her with a stool, and stomped on her.She yelled, and then fell silent.Everyone sat, not only not interfering, but also as if they didn't even see it.After a while, the doctor came: "Who hit you?" The girl who was beaten replied, "I fell off the board." On that night, Nagel was also lost by them playing cards, but The dog-legged one-eyed Vasika rescued her: he secretly reported to the battalion commander, who took Nagel to the porter for the night. Going to work at a punishment dispatch point (such as Palma in Nylobulag, to the deepest part of the taiga) is often considered a punishment for guard soldiers and detainees, and those who make mistakes are also sent there. , and it is more common to replace them with self-guard members. If there is no law and truth in the labor camps, there is even less need to search for it in the punishment area.The thieves ran amok there, walking openly with knives (Vorkuta "Geoworker" solitary labor site, 1946), the guards ran out of the area to avoid them, and this is still It happened when Article 58 prisoners were in the majority. In the penal camp of Jantuyi, near Pechora, the thieves burned down two barracks as a practical joke, banned cooking, drove out the cooks, and killed two officers.The rest of the officers refused to enter the barracks even under threat of losing their epaulettes. Under such circumstances, the chiefs resorted to the method of "ruling barbarians with barbarians": appointed a "dog leg" who was urgently transferred from elsewhere with a group of helpers to be Zhang Tuyi's management director.They stabbed three thieves on the first night, and that's when they started to settle down a bit. There is a proverb that has long been foreseen: A thief dies by a thief.The godfathers of the archipelago have bred these socially close members beyond any limit according to the advanced theory, so that they can't bear it anymore. In addition to dividing and conquering them, it is very easy for them to use knives on each other (the war between thieves and "bitches" in the post-war era shocked outside the islands), there is no other way out. Of course, no matter how laissez-faire the thieves appear to be, their life in the punishment camp is not easy, and they just want to use this arrogance to get out of here.Like all parasites, it is to their advantage to live among human beings from whom they can feed.Sometimes the thieves even cut off their own fingers in order not to go to penal camps such as the famous Vorkuta Limeworks. (In the post-war years it was even written in the court verdict for some recidivists: "Imprisoned at the Vorkuta Limeworks." It tightened the screws.) There, everyone carried a knife with them. "Bitches" and burglars kill each other every day.The cook ("bitch") serves vegetable soup at will: some are thick, some are thin, and some are simply given a spoonful on the forehead.Workers were sent to walk around with a steel bar, and with a whoosh, they beat people to death on the spot. The "bitches" keep some boys around them for masculinity.There are three kinds of sheds: the "Bitch" shed, the thief's shed, and the "Fullie" shed. "Fulaier"-workmanship: Lime is mined in the low place near the labor camp, and then the limestone is carried up to the cliff on a stretcher, where it is piled into a cone shape, leaving smoke inside; ignited and roasted; Spread the burning lime in the soot and dust. In the Zhida labor camp, the Bayangol punishment area is well known. Before there were any prisoners who deserved to be punished, a group of "core workers" were first sent to the Levuci Punishment Unit in Kraslag, that is, about 150 strong and healthy people who were not at fault. Prisoners (although it is a punishment point, but the above requires the labor camp chief to complete the production plan, so ordinary coolies have to be forced into the punishment point!), and then sent to the thief and the long sentence according to Article 58 Prisoner - a felon.The thieves are already a little afraid of these felons, because these felons have been behind the scenes for 25 years. Killing a thief in a post-war environment will not increase your sentence. It's not like being on the canal site That is considered to be troublesome by class enemies. Levuch's working day seems to be eleven hours on the surface, but in fact it becomes fifteen hours including walking back and forth (five to six kilometers) to work in the forest.Woke up at 4:30 in the morning, and it was already past 7:00 in the evening when we returned to the camp.The strength of the prisoners was exhausted very quickly, so there appeared prisoners who refused to work.After the general dispatched workers set off, let the prisoners who refused to work be lined up in the club, and send workers to walk around to choose who should be forced to work.Such prisoners who refused to work wore bark shoes ("shoes and socks are in order", sixty degrees below zero) and tattered coats, and were pushed out of the area - where five wolf dogs were thrown at them: "Go up!" Ah!" The dog dragged the prisoner who refused to work to the ground, tearing and scratching.At this time, the dog was called back, and a Chinese man drove a dung-extracting ox cart, loaded it with workers who refused to leave, transported it to the construction site, and pushed the people in the cart into a depression from the embankment.Leosha Sloboda, the work squad leader, waited below, beating them with sticks until they rose to work for him.The amount of work they had done, he charged to his own work team, and what they got was three hundred grams of bread—the ration for confinement. (The person who came up with this step-by-step method - can be regarded as a little Stalin!) Galina Josephovna Sergey Ryakova!Why don't you write about this kind of thing?Why are your heroes squatting in labor camps doing nothing, not going anywhere to work, but talking about Lenin and Stalin? It is almost impossible for an ordinary coolie mentioned in Article 58 to survive this kind of disciplinary labor camp. In the punitive sub-point of the Beitie labor camp (the chief is Colonel Klyuchkin), there was a phenomenon of cannibalism in 1946-147: the NPC was cut into eight pieces, boiled and eaten. This happened precisely after the world-historic victory of our people. Hello, Colonel Klyuchkin!Where did you build yourself a private residence for the elderly?