Chapter 73 Chapter Twelve Forty Days at Kenjill Camp-1

However, Beria's death also had another meaning for the special labor camp: it not only gave political prisoners hope, but also confused them, made them lose their direction, and relieved the heavy pressure of hard labor.Hope sprouts: as if change is about to happen.As a result, political convicts are no longer willing to go to labor camps and prisons to punish their peddlers, and they are no longer willing to go on strike or riot.Hate has been forgotten.They hope that everything will change for the better without riots and strikes, just wait for a while. Beria's death has another meaning. Those who were always the most respected and reliable in the Soviet army wearing blue epaulets (but no bird on the air force epaulets) now seem to be suddenly marked with guilt imprint.Not only in the eyes of the prisoners and their relatives (these people don't care, let them go!), isn't it also seen by the government?

It was in that ominous year of 1953 that the double salary of officers of the troops of the Ministry of the Interior was abolished ("according to the order"), which meant that they too would receive only one salary from now on.Although military service allowances, work allowances in the extreme north, and various bonuses are still received, this is a big blow to their pocketbooks, and an even bigger blow to their career prospects -- look at it this way , won't we be needed in the future? ! Just because Beria was finished, the security department felt the need to prove its loyalty and necessity of existence with facts as soon as possible.But how to prove it?

At this time, the labor camp riots that had hitherto been regarded as a threat by the guards flickered like lifelines.Let's have more riots, the more chaos the better, then we need to take countermeasures, so we won't be laid off and cut wages. In less than a year, guards at the Kengil special labor camp shot prisoners several times for no reason.It is impossible for such incidents to occur one after another without premeditation. Li, a girl who operated a mortar mixer, went to dry a pair of socks near the frontier, and the guards shot her dead immediately. He also shot and wounded an old Chinese man. (None of Kengil's prisoners remembered the Chinese's name. He spoke almost no Russian at all. They all remembered his shambling gait, his pipe-pipe, and his odd-looking face. It was the guardsmen who called him When he came to him, the soldier threw him a pack of Mahe cigarettes, which happened to be thrown on the edge of the frontier, and when the old Chinese man bent over to pick up the cigarettes, he shot in front of the soldier.)

There was another similar incident.The guard dropped a few rounds from the watchtower and ordered a prisoner to pick them up.When the prisoner went to pick it up, the soldiers shot and killed him. Later, there was a sensational incident in which dum bullets were fired at the procession of prisoners returning from work at the beneficiation plant, seriously injuring sixteen people. (Twenty or so others concealed their minor injuries and did not dare to register for fear of being punished.) This time, because the prisoners did not swallow their anger, the history of Ekbastuz was repeated here: Kengil No. 3 labor camp did not work for three days (but still had food), and the perpetrators were demanded to be punished.

A committee was sent, promising to bring the perpetrators to justice, and the prisoners agreed to go to work. (Actually, can prisoners attend the trial and confirm it for themselves?!...) However, in February 1954 another person was shot at the lumber processing plant.The prisoners at Camp Kenjill all remembered this "evangelical man" (aleksandr Sysoyev, it seems).This man has served nine years and nine months of his ten-year sentence.His job was to apply welding rods, and he worked in a hut near the frontier.He was going to take a urinate outside the hut when he was shot by guards from a watchtower.Several guards immediately ran down from the watchtower, trying to drag the dead to the edge of the frontier.Make it look like he's crossed the line.The other prisoners couldn't bear it any longer, and took picks, shovels, etc., and drove the murderers away from the dead. (During the whole process, the horse of Captain Belyayev, the special commissioner of the operation, was tied to the camp of the wood processing factory. This man had a mole on his left cheek, nicknamed "Little Black Mole", and he was very cruel. Tyrannical, so arranging such murders is very much to his liking.)

The entire camp where the timber processing factory was located was in a commotion.The prisoners planned to carry the dead back to the labor camp on their shoulders.Officers in labor camps were not allowed to carry them. "Why did you kill him?"--The prisoners asked the officer loudly.However, the ruler's answer is ready: "blame the deceased himself, he was the first to throw stones at the watchtower." (They probably didn't have time to see the registration card of the deceased! Did they know that the deceased's sentence was only left? three months, and he's an evangelical?  …)

The way back to the living area is eerie and people are on tenterhooks.There are many machine gunners in ambush in the snow on both sides. (Kengillians understand that these machine gunners are fully prepared to shoot...) There are also machine gunners on the roofs of the villages and towns where the guard is stationed. This incident happened again at the third labor camp where 16 people were seriously injured.Although only one person was killed this time, people* felt more and more that their lives were insecure, doomed to death, and hopeless.It has been almost a year since Stalin died, but his eagle dog has not shown any restraint.and.Overall nothing has changed.

It was dark, and this happened after dinner: the light in our unit suddenly went out, and someone stood at the door and said loudly to the room: "Brothers, we are working and building, and the reward we can get is We’re going to be shot, when will this count? We won’t be working tomorrow!” In this way, it has been passed on from unit to unit, from shed to shed. Throw a note over the partition wall of the second labor camp next door.Having had some experience in this field and having considered it many times in the past, a strike was immediately announced there, too.People of various nationalities were detained in the second labor camp. Most of them were sentenced to ten years in prison, and many were about to complete their sentences.Still, they acted in concert.

The next morning, no one in the No. 2 and No. 3 reform-through-labour camps where male prisoners were held did not work. Strikes, but not giving up a poor ration issued by the public, this practice is more and more understood by more and more prisoners, but less and less by the rulers.So they came up with a way: let a large number of unarmed guards and guards pour into the strike labor camp, into the work shed, two people support a prisoner, push and pull the prisoner out of the work shed. (Isn’t this approach too humane?! You can take care of the thieves in this way, but you can’t do this to the enemies of the people! However, after Beria was shot, no general or colonel dared to order machine gunners to shoot at the camp This kind of "labour" by the masters is in vain: the prisoners who are pushed out either go to the toilet, or hang out in the living quarters, but they don't go to the dispatching place.

People persisted like this for two days. Isn't it quite simple that the guard who shot the evangelical should be punished?However, in the eyes of rulers, this truth is neither simple nor correct.Instead, late at night on the second day of the strike, a colonel from Karaganda, with a large entourage, and therefore sure of his own safety, came to the sheds to call for help.He woke everyone up rudely, and kept repeating a sentence: "How long have you been playing rascals?" He didn't know anyone, but pointed at this person casually with his hand and said: "You, get out! "Point to another person and say, "You, get out!" " the most reasonable answer.A Latvian named Will Rosenberg saw this irrational persecution and said to the colonel: "Well, I will go too!" The colonel readily agreed: "Go!" He didn't even understand this A form of protest.Well, in his opinion, there was nothing to protest about here! ?

That night also announced the end of the democracy of food: from the next day, those who did not work would be given rations only in proportion to those who were punished.The people in the second labor camp started work the next morning.In the morning at the third labor camp, the strike was still in progress.The "push-pull tactics" were again applied to them, and this time the force was strengthened: all the officers who were serving in Kengil and who came to Kengil to assist the work and came with the committee were mobilized.A large number of officers poured into the designated work sheds, some of them wore the high-ranking officer's sheepskin caps, and the epaulettes on their shoulders were shining.They squeezed into the house, bent over between the "carriages", and sat down directly on the prisoners' dirty steel flower pillows in their clean trousers, saying: "Hey, you Move over there! Can’t you see, I’m the lieutenant colonel!” While talking, he kept moving, pushing the prisoners on the bed to the passage between the beds.Then the guards grabbed the sleeves and pushed people outside to the dispatch sites; those who refused were sent to prison. (Unfortunately, the capacity of the two prisons in Camp Kenjill is limited, which limits the hands and feet of the headquarters. There can only be about 500 people there.).The officers managed to suppress the strike with this disregard for decency and privilege.They are compelled to make this sacrifice because it is a time of great uncertainty: not knowing what to do, but making a mistake and dangerous!If he shot at the crowd with too much effort, he might be said to be Beria's accomplice afterwards.But if you don't work hard and force the prisoners to work resolutely, they may also be said to be Beria's accomplices. "Furthermore, the fact that the officers of the Ministry of the Interior went out in person to suppress strikes on such a large scale was unprecedented, but they thus proved that their epaulets were necessary for the maintenance of the holy order (manpower cannot be reduced!), and that they Individual heroic qualities of each. At the same time, other approaches that have worked well in the past have been adopted.During March and April, several batches of prisoners were transferred to other special camps. (The result was that the contagion spread again!) About seventy people (including Tenno) were sent to a particularly severe prison.The official letter sent to the prisoner is all written with a fixed "reason": "Various reform measures have been taken against the prisoner, but with little effect. Since the prisoner has a corrosive effect on him, it is not suitable to be detained in a labor camp." In the labor camp The list of inmates sent to particularly severe prisons was published "to follow the example".At the same time, as a kind of "new economic policy" in the labor camp, the so-called economic accounting system began to be implemented; and in order to make this method replace the freedom and justice demanded by the prisoners, all kinds of goods were shipped to the labor camp commissary, which had always been short of supplies. food, and even (ah, this is unbelievable!) a salary advance for prisoners to buy it. (How strange that the Gulag authorities trust and lend to the inhabitants of its archipelago!) In this way, the power accumulated in Kenjill for the second time was finally strangled in its infancy before it matured. However, the rulers have gone too far: they have returned to the main stick in their hands - criminals, and use them to deal with those who violate Article 58. (Really! Why get your hands and epaulets dirty when you have all these social ties available?!) On the eve of May Day, the rulers sent 650 habitual criminals and some ordinary criminals (including many juveniles) to the riot-torn No. 3 Labor Camp, mixing them with political prisoners.That is to say, the masters themselves abandoned the principle of "special" labor camps, and admitted that all political prisoners should not be locked together to make them know themselves, but must be mixed with sand.In advance, the masters gleefully warned the prisoners who violated Article 58: "A group of healthy forces will come soon, and you can't talk about random tricks in the future." Get it straight! " The ruler knows exactly where to start to rectify order.That is to let the thieves steal and rely on others to support themselves, so as to create a situation of mutual suspicion and separation of hearts.And when these thieves and hooligans learned that there was a women's labor camp nearby, they became even more ugly. They pleaded with their masters: "Good sir! Let's see those women!" Regarding this, the chief They just smile in a friendly way, and they only smile like that at thieves and hooligans. But read on and see how unpredictable the course of human emotions and social movements can be!The ruler injected such a large dose of high-efficiency corpse poison into the third labor camp of Kenjill Camp, hoping that this would make the labor camp more docile.But things backfired, and the result was a large-scale riot unprecedented in the history of the Gulag Islands! However many walls the islands of the Gulag Archipelago may be, however scattered they may be, they are still connected by many deportation stations, and they still breathe the same air and experience the same feelings.Therefore, it is impossible for the thieves to be ignorant of the "slaughter" eyeliners, hunger strikes, strikes, riots, etc. that took place in special labor camps.It is said that around 1954 it became evident at various fast-fix stations that thieves began to respect political convicts. If so, what prevented us from gaining the "respect" of thieves in the past?Throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, those of us so-called intellectuals who were helpless in the face of the objective world were only concerned about our own world value, what was in our pockets and what had not been snatched away. boots and trousers; and in our attitude towards these thieves we are like characters in a farce: we shy away when thieves rob our neighbors and rob intellectuals of "world value" like ourselves. Turning our faces away, huddled in our corner; and when these scumbags turn and rob us, we naturally do not expect aid from our neighbors, but willingly give everything to these scumbags, as long as they Just don't bite our heads off.Indeed, at that time our hearts were not at all in this direction, our emotions were not prepared to deal with these things at all!We never expected to meet such a cruel and vile enemy!We suffer from the twists and turns of Russian history.We are prepared to give our lives, but what we are prepared to do is to give them publicly and vigorously, before the eyes of the whole world, and this death must save all mankind at once.Maybe our minds should be thinking about the simplest things.Perhaps we should have prepared ourselves from the moment we entered the cell of the first fast-fix station: we should have prepared ourselves for a nasty duel with these rat people.It was the gentlemen in the blue piping caps who threw us to these ratmen to kill us.We should have been prepared to get stabbed a few times in the middle of a brawl, to die in a cold dank corner, lying in the slime overflowing from the toilet.If we had had this kind of mental preparation at that time, maybe we would have suffered much less loss, maybe we would have cheered up earlier, stood taller, and maybe even joined hands with these thieves to destroy Stalin's labor camp. Smash it to pieces!Then again, why on earth did these thieves start to respect us? ... The thing happened like this; the rogue thieves transferred to the Kenjill camp had already heard a little about the fighting spirit of the political convicts, and they were already on the alert.After they arrived, before they had time to find out the situation and bond with the labor camp chiefs, some broad-shouldered, resolute and calm young men came to chat with their leaders.The lads sat down, chatted about life with the gang leaders, and said to them: "We are representatives. You have probably heard about the slaughter in special labor camps. If you haven't heard of it, we can tell it to you." Listen: the knives we make now are no worse than yours. You have six hundred men, we have twenty-six hundred men. Think about it and choose for yourself. If you try to suppress us, we will kill you all. " This move is brilliant!It's long overdue to take this step!That is to say, turn around and confront the criminals as the main enemy! Of course, the men in the blue hoops were expecting the prisoners to fight.However, the criminals thought that they might not be able to deal with four fearless political prisoners alone.There is no bargain!After all, their patrons lived outside the living quarters, not to mention, were these patrons really reliable?Had the thieves respected these guards and officers in the past?And the alliance proposed by the young political prisoners was an interesting venture that hadn't been tried before, not to mention opening up a road - a road to the women's labor camp next door. Then the criminal replied: "No, we're smart too! We're going to do it with you guys!" This meeting of delegates is not recorded in the annals of history, nor are the names of its participants in the records.it's a pity.These guys are really smart. The healthy forces celebrated their "housewarming" as soon as they arrived in the isolation shed: they removed the wooden sticks from the bedside tables and "carriages", lit a bonfire on the concrete floor, and let thick smoke escape from the windows.In order to express their opposition to locking the shed at night, they blocked the keyhole with a saw. For the first two weeks, the thieves were like living in a sanatorium: they went to the construction site to bask in the sun and did not work at all. Naturally, the camp authorities would not reduce their rations, but despite their desire to help them, But they cannot be paid wages, because there is no such sum to spend.Even so, internal circulation coupons appeared in the hands of thieves, and they often went to the commissary to buy things.The masters rejoiced, thinking that these health forces had finally begun to steal.In fact, this is the chief executive's own misconception.It was the political prisoners themselves who raised some internal currency notes to finance the thieves. (Apparently this also forms part of the agreement, otherwise the thieves would find it boring.) This is where their internal currency comes from.This situation has never been seen before, so the children did not even think about it! Probably this unusual and new game has aroused the great interest of criminals, especially juveniles among them, and they suddenly become more polite to people they used to think of as "fascists": they never enter without permission. A room for political prisoners; never sit on the bed without giving up your seat. In the nineteenth century, the city of Paris once organized criminals into the Guards (it seems that the number of criminals in Paris was really amazing at that time), calling them "activists".This name is very appropriate.They are really active, determined to break through the shell of conventional daily life, and they are not willing to be imprisoned in this kind of life.The agreement reached between the two parties stipulated that theft was not allowed.Do you work hard for the public?This is immoral in their eyes.But, do you have to find something to earn a living? !So these young people had no choice but to amuse themselves in this way: they took off their caps from the guards' heads, fled to the roof of the work shed to perform horsemanship at night, crossed the high wall from the third labor camp to the second labor camp, and disturbed the team to report. Counting, whistling, booing, and intimidating the sentries on the watchtower at night... If there is a General Affairs Division compound guarded by armed personnel in the middle, they would have gone to the women's labor camp farther away. Sometimes the officers in the corrections room or the educators or special operations agents came to the criminals' sheds and chatted with them in a friendly way, but the young thieves often hurt their noble feelings by stealing their pockets while chatting. Notepad, purse, or just from the top bunk and suddenly turn the prison "Godfather" hat, the brim facing backwards.This phenomenon has never been seen on the Gulag Islands! (The whole situation is completely different from before.) In fact, these Iwts have always regarded the "Godfathers" of the Gulag as fools. The more stubbornly the "Godfathers" believed in the achievements of thought remolding, the more the thieves looked down on them.When the thieves stepped onto the podium and faced the loudspeaker and introduced their determination to reform, and talked about how they felt about starting a new life with a pushcart, their contempt for the "Godfather" reached the extreme in their hearts.However, they didn't have to fall out with the "Godfather" before.And now, the agreement reached with the political prisoners is precisely directing the energies of the activities of the freed thieves into the struggle against the camp backbone. The masters of the Gulag Islands, with very poor administrative management ability and lack of human noble sentiments, first shot the prisoners unreasonably, and then injected the "fuel" of hooligans into the white-hot air of Kenjill.In this way, they themselves created the conditions for Kenjill's explosion. The development of events is inevitable.It is impossible for a political prisoner not to propose to the thieves either war or alliance.It is also impossible for the thieves to refuse to join forces.And once the union is established, it cannot stand still, otherwise it will be divided and civil war will be fought. You must start to act, no matter what you do, you must start!If the person at the beginning is a person who violates Article 58, he will be hanged; if it is a thief, he will only be found by political instructors to teach him a lesson.So the thieves suggested: "We will lead the charge, and you will support!" Here we should first explain the zoning of the Kenjill special labor camp branch.The isolation area of ​​the entire labor camp branch is a large rectangular area. This large camp area is divided into several small camp areas by several vertical high walls. (We have already introduced the industrial production capacity of this compound), followed by the second labor reform site, the third labor reform site, and then the prisons of the labor camps. The prisons include the old and new prisons, where not only the prisoners of the labor camps are detained , and also imprisoned free residents of villages and towns. The first goal, of course, is to seize the General Affairs Division compound, because several grain warehouses of the labor camps are here.The date chosen to start the operation was May 16, 1954, which was a "big week" of rest.First, all the activists climbed onto the roofs of their respective work sheds, and then distributed to the top of the wall between the second and third labor camps.Then, according to the command of the leader standing on the high place, everyone jumped into the yard of the second labor camp with wooden sticks, stood in line, and marched along the road in the middle of the camp in a formation.At the end of this road is the iron gate leading to the General Affairs Division compound.The team stopped in front of the iron gate. These public actions took some time.At this time, the guards had already noticed, organized their forces, and received instructions.Voila, fun!The guards even ran towards the working sheds where the Article 58 prisoners were held, and called out to these people who had been regarded as the worst guys and oppressed and trampled on for thirty-five years: "Boys! Look! Rogue thieves are going to storm the women's camp! They are going to rape our wives and daughters! Go to the rescue! Beat them back!" However, the two sides have reached an agreement, so they just mobilize and don't move anyone.Some people who didn't understand the situation were just about to run out, but they were stopped by others.The political prisoners also understand that the tomcats may not stick to the terms of the agreement when they see meatloaf.However, the guards still failed to find a single helper among the Article 58 prisoners. How the guards themselves will defend the women from these favorites is unknown.But the first thing they had to defend was the grain warehouse in the General Affairs Division compound.The big iron gate was smashed open, and a row of unarmed soldiers in the compound met the attackers. Standing behind him was Lieutenant Belyaev, who was commanding the "little mole".Why was he still in camp on Sunday?Maybe it was too positive, maybe it happened that he was on duty.The soldiers pushed the "activists" out, breaking up their ranks.The thieves did not use the sticks in their hands, and began to retreat to the third labor camp at the back, climbing up the wall, while their reserve army beat back the soldiers with stones and stone billets from the wall at this time, covering the retreat. Needless to say, none of the thieves were apprehended afterwards.The camp authorities dismissed all this as the nonsense of active young men, and let the Sunday pass without incident.Open for lunch.After nightfall, the film "Rimsky-Korsakov" began, like a summer cinema, near the auditorium occupied by the Second Labor Camp. " However, before the brave musicians in the film resigned from the conservatory to protest against the persecution of freedom, the street lamps in the labor camp made a crisp sound of breaking -- the "activists" smashed the street lamps one by one with slingshots. It was smashed, and the courtyard of the camp suddenly became dark.Many "activists" were scurrying around in the dark courtyard of the No. 2 Labor Camp, and the loud whistles of the bandits pierced the night sky.They used big logs to break open the gate of the General Affairs Division compound, rushed in, and used the steel rails there to cut a gap in the wall leading to the female labor camp. (Some young men who committed Article 58 also joined them.) Combat flares were fired from the watchtower.It was the same operative, Captain Liulyayev, who led a platoon of submachine gunners from the outside into the General Administration compound through the watchtower and (for the first time in the history of the Gulag!) shot at their kinsmen!Several people were killed and dozens were injured on the spot.Behind the submachine gunners, soldiers wearing red epaulettes were chasing with bayonets, and when they caught up with the wounded, they stabbed with bayonets!Immediately behind the soldiers were guards holding iron rods. According to the division of labor in the crusade, they followed the method adopted in Ekbastuz, Norilsk and Vorkuta. Beat to death with an iron rod. (That night, in the brightly lit operating room of the hospital at Camp No. 2, Surgeon Foster, a Spaniard and prisoner, was operating.) The General Affairs Section was completely occupied by crusaders, and the compound was equipped with several machine guns.The people in the second labor camp (the "activists" finished the prologue, and now the political prisoners are on the stage) built a barrier opposite the gate of the General Affairs Division, and put the second.A gap was opened in the wall between the third labor camp, connecting them into one piece.The powers of the Warden and the Ministry of Internal Affairs no longer exist here. But what happened to those who had stormed the women's labor camps and were cut off there?The development of the situation immediately reversed the contemptuous attitude of criminals towards women in the past.When machine guns rang out in the General Affairs Division compound, those who fled to the women were no longer greedy hunters, but fellow sufferers with a shared destiny.The women hid them all; first unarmed soldiers, then armed soldiers came in to search and arrest.But the women refused to allow the search and scuffled with the soldiers.Soldiers beat women with fists and rifle butts, dragged them to prisons (a separate prison was also predictably built within the Women's Labor Camp), and shot male prisoners as soon as they found them. The headquarters still felt that the crusade team was not strong enough, and quickly transferred a battalion of construction engineers stationed in Kenjill wearing black epaulets to the women's labor camp.But the engineers refused to perform this task which is not what soldiers should do!Had to call them back. But it was also here, in the women's camp, that the crusaders found their main political excuse to defend themselves against their superiors.They are not fools!I don’t know what books they read about, or they really came up with it on their own. Anyway, the next day, Monday, he ffl took a few photographers and two or three of his own men in prison uniforms. Into the women's camp.As soon as these fake scum came in, they pulled the women randomly, and the photographers immediately grabbed the camera to take pictures.Look, Lieutenant Belyaev had to shoot just to protect the weak women from these scoundrels! On Monday morning, the tense air over the ramparts and the battered iron gates of the General Administration compound grew thicker.There were still a few unattended corpses lying in the compound, and the machine gunners lay behind the machine guns, pointing their guns at the gate, ready for battle.In the two men's camps that were liberated, people were busy removing wooden sticks from the beds to make weapons, and boards and mattresses to make shields.The prisoners shouted at the executioners across the ramparts, and the executioners shouted back.The situation is fluid and things must move forward.Prisoners inside the rampart even planned to charge first.A few emaciated men took off their shirts, boarded the rampart, pointed at their bony chests and ribs, and shouted at the machine gunners: "Hey! Shoot here! Shoot your fathers!" ! Kill me earlier!" Suddenly, a soldier ran towards the officers in the General Affairs Division compound with a piece of paper.The officer immediately ordered to clean up the corpses in the courtyard, and the soldiers wearing red epaulets withdrew from the courtyard immediately. For about five minutes, silence and mistrust hung over the ramparts.Then, several prisoners cautiously looked towards the General Affairs Division compound: it was empty inside, and some black caps with number cloths sewn on by the deceased were thrown on the ground. (Afterwards, we learned that the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan ordered the army to clean up the corpses in the Academy of General Affairs and evacuate them immediately. He had just flown in from Almaty. The corpses were taken to the grassland and disposed of, in case someone asks for an autopsy in the future .) There was a triumphant "Ulla!" sound.People poured into the General Affairs Division compound, and then into the women's camp.The gap in the wall widened.The prison in the women's camp was also opened.Several reform-through-labour sites became one!Everyone in the main camp is free, only the prison of the fourth labor camp is still a prison. All the watchtowers are now guarded by groups of four with red epaulets.These people have no choice but to play the role of being insulted and scolded!The prisoners gathered and shouted towards the watchtower (naturally. The women shouted the loudest): "You are worse than fascists! ... You are vampires! ... Murderers! ..." Of course, priests can also be found among reform-through-labor prisoners, and there are more than one.Mortuaries are already holding memorial services for those who were killed or died from injuries. What would it be like to fill the chests of eight thousand prisoners? !These eight thousand men, who had been, and had even just been, slaves in isolation from one another, united in their emancipation, though not real emancipation, confined to a rectangular strip in the middle of the four walls, and situated on four sides. A group of people armed with red epaulets are under close surveillance.Remember that time in the Ekbastuz camp, when I was starving and lying in a locked work shed, it seemed that I had touched freedom!Today, it's almost like a revolution!Human friendship, once ruthlessly suppressed, is now one.Yu Jin is out!We love these rogue thieves, and they love us! (Yeah, why hide it, this is a friendship made with blood. Besides, you know, they have broken away from their original set of norms at this time!) Of course, we also like these women more, and they are like human beings. They stand side by side with us as they did, they are sisters who share our fate! Big signs were posted in the mess hall: "Take any weapon, attack the army!" Some of the most impatient people had hastily written their own in black or colored letters on old newspapers (there was no other paper here). Slogan slogans: "Boys, beat the Cheka staff hard!" "Execute the eyeliner! Execute the Cheka lackeys!" In various labor camps, mass meetings were held wherever possible, and people rushed to speak!Speakers have their own opinions!Think for yourself (you are allowed to think now!), whose claim do you agree with?What should be asked?what do we wantSentencing Belyaev?certainly!Sentenced for murder?right!anything else?No more locked sheds!Cancel the number bib!anything else? ... And...there's that most dire question: why did we start this operation?what do we wantOf course, we want to be free, be free!But who will set us free? 7 The courts that condemn us are in Moscow!When we were temporarily only dissatisfied with the authorities of the Stepp camps, or only with the authorities of Karaganda, we were still the subject of conversation.But as soon as we express our dissatisfaction with Moscow... we will all be buried in this steppe. That being the case, what do we want?Take down these walls?Scatter and flee to the grassland? ... The time of freedom has come!The heavy shackles have fallen from shoulders and hands!No, there is no turning back against justice!As long as you can live a day like today, it's worth it! On Monday evening, a delegation from the authorities arrived at the raging labor camp.The representatives were very friendly, not aggressive at all, and did not carry submachine guns.Originally, needless to say? !They are not Beria's accomplices with blood on their hands!We are informed that two generals have flown in from Moscow - Bochkov of the General Administration of Labor Camps and Deputy Prosecutor General Vavilov. (They worked under Beria too. But why bother?!) They think our demands are perfectly legitimate! (Even we were surprised: justified? So we are not rioters? No, no, totally justified!) "The people who shoot and kill must be held accountable!" "Why did they beat the women?" "毒打妇女？"代表团员表示惊讶，"这不可能。"于是阿尼娅?米哈列维奇立即把一长排遭受毒打的妇女带到代表团跟前来。代表们深为震动，连连说："我们一定查清，一定查清！""衣冠禽兽！"柳芭?别尔沙德斯卡娅对将军叫喊。 "不要再锁工棚！"又有人喊。 "决定以后不锁了。""拿掉号码！""号码一定要拿掉。"一位我们从未见过面（以后也不会再见面）的将军十分肯定地回答说。 "把各营区之间的豁口保留下来，不要再堵死！我们需要彼此来往！"我们的人有些得寸进尺了。"好。你们可以来往！就让这些豁口保留下来吧。"将军也同意了。 那么，弟兄们，咱们还要求什么？咱们不是胜利了吗？ !我们骚乱了一天，兴高采烈，热血沸腾，我们终于胜利了！虽然我们中间也有人不住地摇头说：欺骗，欺骗！可是我们相信了，相信了那些"基本上还是好的"领导！我们相信了，也是因为只有相信才是摆脱目前处境的最简便的出路…… 受压迫者除了相信之外还有什么别的办法呢？一次上当受骗了，下次还得相信。再次上当受骗了，以后还得相信。 这样，星期二，五月十八日，肯吉尔各个劳改点的囚犯容忍了自己同伴们的死伤，全部出工了。 这一天上午，在我们看来一切都会平安地过去了。但是，聚集到肯吉尔来的高级将领们不这样看，他们认为这种结局等于他们的失败。他们怎能认真承认囚犯有理呢！怎能认真地惩办内务部的军人呢？他们那低能的头脑能够吸取的唯-一条教训是；各营区之间的墙壁修造得还不够坚固！那里应该进一步划出一条火力封锁地带！ 就在这同一天，性急热心的首长们就把那些已经几年、几十年不曾劳动过的人动员起来参加劳动了：军官和看守们系上围裙，会干活的人操起了镘刀和铺灰板，而那些还没有轮到值勤的士兵则被叫来推车、抬筐。留在营区的残废也要来搬砖、递土坯。傍晚前就把几个豁口全已堵死，还修好了打破的路灯，而且沿着营区内部的各道墙旁边都划出了一条不许靠近的禁区，两端派有哨兵看守，给他们的命令是：越过此线老枪杀勿论！ 傍晚，为国家贡献出一天劳动的囚犯队伍回到营区来的时候，看守们急忙赶他们去食堂吃饭，趁他们还来不及省悟就尽快把他们锁进工棚。按照将军们的作战部署，必须赢得今天这个晚上，这个对昨天的诺言过于明目张胆地背信弃义的第一个夜晚。同时，他们也指望我们会逐渐地习惯，逐渐就范。 但是，在夜幕即将降落的时候又听到了星期日曾经听到过的那种响亮的土匪口哨声，这是第二和第三营区在用口哨交换信息，就像在大规模流氓集会上那样。（这些哨声是刑事犯们对共同事业作出的又一巨大贡献。）看守们为这哨声所震动，没等尽完自己的职责就逃之夭夭了。只有一名军官--军需上尉梅德维若诺克--稍有疏忽，为了工作耽误了一会儿。结果他不得不当一夜俘虏。 营区再度属于囚犯。但现在囚犯们已经又被大墙隔开了。只要有人敢靠近内墙，了望塔上立即用机枪扫射。打倒了几个人，有些人受伤。路灯又全被弹弓打碎，但是岗楼上打起了照明弹。这时，被扣在第二劳改点的总务科军需富有用了：人们扯掉了他的一个肩章，把他绑在一张桌子上，推向禁区的前沿。他拼命地朝自己人哀号："别开枪，我在这儿！我是梅德维若诺克！我在这儿，不要开枪！" 囚犯们用长条桌子撞击铁丝网，撞击禁区刚刚埋下的柱子。但在机枪火上压制下既无法把墙打破，也无法爬上墙去。不行，必须挖地道。可是，按照规定，营区内除了几把消防铁锹之外没有铁锹。只好利用伙房的菜刀和汤盆。 五月十八日夜至十九日黎明之前，几道墙下全被地道打通了，几个营区和总务科大院又连成一片。这时了望塔上已停止射击。总务科大院里各种工具应有尽有。那些戴肩章的泥瓦匠们一整天完成的工作如今完全白费：在夜色掩护下囚犯们拆除了禁区障碍，打通了墙壁，大大展宽了豁口，免得它们再成为陷阱（后来甚至加宽到二十来米）。 这天夜里还打通了通往第四劳改点（监狱）的墙。监狱的看守人员有的逃入岗楼，有的跑上了望塔（卫兵给他们放下梯子来）。囚犯们捣毁了几个侦查室。这样，他们既解放了监狱，也解放了那些明天即将负起起义领导重任的人们：原红军上校团长卡皮通?库兹涅佐夫（伏龙芝军事学院毕业生，年纪已经不小，战后曾在驻德国部队任团长，因为他的团里有一个人逃往西方，他为此被判刑。他被关进劳改营监狱是因为他在托自由居民寄出的信里"对劳改营的现实进行了歪曲和诬蔑"）。还有一位原红军上尉格列布?斯鲁钦科夫（据某些人说，他曾被德国人俘虏，还是个弗拉索夫分子）。 "新"监狱里还关押着肯吉尔镇自由居民中的一些普通刑事犯。起初，他们以为是国内发生了全面革命，所以欢天喜地地接受了这意想不到的自由。但很快就了解到这革命原来只是局部性质的，于是便又安分守己地回到石头牢房里去，而且在整个起义期间，在没有警卫看管的情况下，一直老老实实呆在里面，只在吃饭时才到暴动囚犯们的食堂去。 暴动囚犯！可他们已经有三次竭力从自己身旁推开这种暴动和这种自由了。他们不知道该怎样对待这天赐之物，他们与其说渴望暴动与自由，毋宁说有些害怕它。但是，就像被无法抗拒的海潮所冲击一样，他们一次又一次地被冲向一场暴动。 他们该怎么办？相信诺言？那将是再度受骗，这一点已经由奴隶主们昨天以及从前的行径充分证实了。屈膝跪倒？可许多年来他们就是一直在下跪的呀，也并没有换来慈悲嘛！今天就去负荆请罪？可是今天所给予你的惩罚与经过一个月自由生活之后所给予你的惩罚将会是同样严酷的--一奴隶主的法庭只知道机械地工作。既然判二十五年。那就一律判二十五年，毫无例外。 不是有人逃跑过吗！要知道，他们是为了过上哪怕仅仅一天的自由生活而逃跑的！这八千人也是一样，他们与其说是掀起了暴动。不如说是逃向了自由，尽管是短暂的自由！八千个人突然从奴隶变成了自由人，他们现在有可能生活了！久已习惯于冷酷无情的面孔变得温和了，露出了和善的微笑，妇女们认出了男子汉，男人们也握住了妇女的手。那些从前只能经过巧妙安排的秘密渠道书信往来而从未见过面的人们，现在互相认识了！有些立陶宛姑娘过去是经过天主教教士隔着墙壁许婚的，现在她们看到了自己那符合宗教教规的丈夫，是神从天上把婚姻赐给她们了。各教派的信徒和有宗教信仰的人如今有生以来第一次可以集在一起祈祷而不受任何人阻挠了。分散在各营区的孤独的外国人如今互相找到自己的同胞，也在用本国语言谈论着这次奇怪的亚洲式革命。劳改营的全部储备粮食落到囚犯手中。没有人再赶你到派工地点去从事十一小时的劳动了。 囚犯们用自己的手撕掉了狗牌般的号码布，激动得彻夜不眠的劳改营迎来了五月十九日的黎明。路灯被打碎，电线杆倒在铁丝网上。现在，囚犯们可以顺着地沟自由地从一个营区到另一个工区去。许多人从储藏室取出自己从前在狱外穿的衣服穿上，个别小伙子戴起了高加索式的毛皮高帽或库班人的平顶小帽，低低地、俏皮地压在眉梢上。（很快就出现了绣花衬衣，亚洲人还穿起色彩鲜艳的长袍，缠起头巾。过去一片灰黑色的劳改营变得绚丽多彩。） 值日人员到各个工棚招呼人们到大食堂去选举"委员会"--与当局进行谈判和实行自治的委员会（它就是取了这样一个谦虚而谨慎的名称）。 选举这个委员会的时候，人们也许是只指望它能工作几个小时的，但是，命运注定它将在长达四十天的时间里在肯吉尔特种劳改营分部发挥政府的作用。 如果这一切发生在两年前，那么，单单是由于害怕此事被那个人本人知道，斯捷普特种劳改营的主子也会毫不犹豫地立即下达那个有名的命令："不必吝惜子弹！"于是便会从各个了望塔上一齐朝着整个营区的人群开枪。至于这会把八千人统统打死，还是只会打死四千，那是无所谓的，他们的心绝不会为此颤动一下，他们是那种从不发抖的人嘛！ 但是，一九五四年当时的复杂形势迫使劳改营主子们犹豫不决。同一个瓦维洛夫和同一个博奇科夫如今在莫斯科已经感觉到某种新潮流的到来。这里已经枪杀过不少人，现在正为此寻找开脱的理由，以便使这已经干下的勾当具有某种合法外衣。这样，他们就难免犹豫不决，从而也就给了暴动者们时间，使他们可以开始独立的新生活。 最初几个小时，首先需要确定这次暴动的政治路线。这关系到暴动本身是否要继续下去。有些人怀着朴素的感情挂出了写在旧报纸上的口号："哥儿们，狠揍契卡人员！"那么，暴动是否应该跟着这类口夺走呢？ 刚刚走出监狱的卡皮通?伊万诺维奇?库兹涅佐夫由于形势的压力，或者由于他的军人作风，或者是在朋友们的敦促和自己内心的召唤下，看来马上就站到了为数不多的、但在肯吉尔营里久经磨练的正统派分子一边，采取了他们的观点："要坚决制止这些胡言乱语（指挂出的口号），要坚决制止某些人想利用我们这次事件的企图，制止他们的反苏维埃的和反革命的情绪！"（这里引用的话是根据委员会的另一成员阿?弗?马克耶夫的谈话记录。谈话是小范围的，在彼得?阿科耶夫的储藏室里进行的。当时，正统派不住点头并对库兹涅佐夫说Z"就为了这些口号我们都得加判刑期！"） 当晚的最初几个小时库兹涅佐夫便开始到各个工棚去声嘶力竭地进行游说。但是，就在这最初时刻，以及在第二天早晨的食堂大会上和后来的许多场合，他都遇到了抵制。那些被践踏得再无法忍受、感到自己已经无可丢失的人们在倾诉他们的怨恨，尽情抒发极端情绪。但是这位上校却不厌其烦地、不知疲倦地重复自己的观点： 一反对苏维埃就意味着我们的灭亡。如果我们现在提出反对苏维埃的口号，我们会立即遭到镇压。他们正在找镇压的借口呢！这类口号会给他们提供开枪的充分理由。只有在合法斗争中我们才能得救。我们应该像苏维埃公民们所应当做的那样同莫斯科派来的代表们对话！ " 然后他又大声喊着说："我们不能容许个别挑拨分子的这类行为！"（不过，当库兹涅佐夫发表这些演说的时候，人们正在"小车厢"里热烈地接吻，没怎么留心听他的话。） 这就好像一个人坐在火车上，火车朝着他不想去的方向奔驰。他决心从车上跳下来，但这时他必须朝着车行方向往下跳，而绝不能往他想去的方向跳。这是历史的惯性的表现。远非大家都愿意这样，但库兹涅佐夫路线的合理性旋即为大家所理解，所接受。很快在全营区各处都挂出了大字巨幅标语，从了望塔上和岗楼上都能看清楚： "苏联宪法万岁！" "党中央委员会主席团万岁！" "苏维埃政权万岁！" "要求派中央委员来！要求复查我们的案件！" "打倒杀人凶手贝利亚分子！" "斯捷普拉格军官的夫人们！你们当杀人凶手的妻子不感到可耻吗？" 虽然绝大多数肯吉尔人心里都非常清楚：远近各地和眼前发生的对上百万人的镇压、迫害完全是在这个宪法的阴暗光线下干出来的。完全是由这个政治局的成员们批准的，但是，肯吉尔人没有别的选择，他们还是得在标语上写这个宪法万岁和这个政治局万岁。现在，重读一遍挂出的标语之后，暴动的囚犯似乎感到自己脚下的地盘具有了某种合法的坚实性，内心感到宽慰、踏实多了：我们的运动不是没有希望的。 刚刚进行过选举的大食堂上空高高升起了一面旗子，整个肯吉尔镇都能看见它。这面白地、黑边、中间有个红十字的旗帜后。来挂了很长时间。根据国际海洋法规，这面旗表示： "遇难！船上有妇女和儿童！" 总共十二人被选人委员会．以库兹涅佐夫为首。委员会立即讨论了分工，成立了下列各部： 宣传鼓动部（由立陶宛人克诺普库斯领导，他是因参加诺里尔斯克起义贾拉转押到这里来的）； 总务部； 伙食部； 内部安全部（由格列布?斯鲁钦科夫负责）； 军事部； 技术部（这个部大概得算劳改营政府中最奇特的一个部了）。 委任原少校马克耶夫担任与劳改营头头之间的联系。委员会中还包括一名小偷头目，他也负责一方面的工作。委员中也有妇女（人选是意料中的：白发苍苍的经济学家、党员沙赫诺夫斯卡娅，喀尔巴阡地区的老教师苏普伦，还有柳芭?别尔沙德斯卡娅）。 真正的主要起义鼓舞者是否也进入了这个委员会呢？Obviously not.几个中心，特别是乌克兰人的中心，显然保持了自己的独立状态（俄罗斯人在整个劳改营中只占四分之一左右）。只有乌克兰老游击队员米哈伊尔?凯列尔，这位从一九四一年起时而同德国人作战，时而同苏联人作战的人，这个曾在肯吉尔劳改营里当众砍死一名眼线的人，现在以那个司令部派来的沉默的观察员身分参加委员会的各次会议。 委员会办公处设在妇女劳改点的行动人员办公室，公开办公，只有"军事部"把自己的指挥所（即战地司令部）设在第二劳改点的浴室里。各部都积极展开了工作，最初几天显得特别繁忙，什么事情都需要从头考虑，安排。 首先要修筑防御工事（马克耶夫预料必然会有军队来镇压，所以他反对修筑任何防御工事。斯鲁钦科夫和克诺普库斯则坚持要修）。几道内墙的豁口扩大了，拆下来大量土坯，囚犯们便用土坯在所有的岗楼和营区出人口的对面修起了壁垒。因为目前岗楼全在警卫队的手里，任何一个哨兵在任何一分钟都可能为讨伐队敞开大门。总务科大院里有的是成卷成卷的铁菠菜，人们便用铁蒺藜绕成布鲁诺蛇腹形铁丝网，布置在几个易受威胁的方向。也没有忘记在某些地方挂出些写着"小心！布雷区！"的小木牌。 这是技术部想出来的妙法之一。围绕着技术部的工作形成了某种极其神秘的气氛。这个部在总务科大院里开辟了几个秘密房间，入口处画着骷髅和交叉的肱骨，写着："高压十万伏！"的字样。这里只准许几个技术部的工作人员出入，所以别的囚犯都不知道技术部里干些什么。很快就传开了一个消息：技术部正在制造某种秘密化学武器。囚犯和主子们都知道劳改犯中有一些非常高明的工程技术人员，所以一种盲目的信念很轻易地就进入了大家的头脑：这些人什么都能干，甚至会发明一种连莫斯科都没有人知道的武器。总务科仓库里有各种化学试剂，要制造简单的地雷还不是易如反掌吗？所以人们对于写着"布雷区"字样的小牌子是认真看待的。 还制造了另外一种武器：把一些装满碎玻璃屑的小盒子放在每个工棚的入口处（可以用它往冲锋枪手的眼睛上打）。 原来的作业班编制不动，改称排，每个工棚编成一个中队，任命了中队长，归军事部领导。由米哈伊尔?凯列尔担任警卫队长。几个易受威胁的地方都派纠察队员值班，按固定时间交接班，夜间加强戒备。考虑到男子的心理特点--他们当着妇女的面不会逃跑，而且一般地说表现得比较勇敢--纠察队由男女囚犯混合编组。肯吉尔劳改营的许多妇女不仅嗓门高，而且很勇敢，尤其是占妇女大半数的乌克兰姑娘。 现在人们不再期待老爷发善心了。他们自己动手拆除了窗上的铁栅栏。最初两天主子们还没有想到切断营区的电源，所以总务科大院里的机床还可以开动，人们便把拆铁栅栏下来的铁条磨尖磨光，制作了大量镖枪头。这两天锻造车间的机床工一直不停地制造武器：刀子、长柄宽刃斧头和刑事犯们特别喜欢的马刀。（他们还喜欢往刀柄上挂两个用彩色皮革做的小铃铛！）有些人甚至拿起了古代用的链子锤。 纠察队员们扛起镖枪去值夜班。夜间派往男子区指定地段值班的妇女排揣着梭镖雄赳赳地前进，随时准备迎着进攻者冲上去。（当时还天真地认为刽子手们会不好意思镇压妇女呢！） 如果不是有严峻而洁净的暴动气氛笼罩，这一切都是不可能的，它早已由于人们的嘲讽或淫欲而涣散瓦解了。对于我们这个时代来说，梭镖和马刀只不过是拿来玩耍的。但对于这些囚犯来说，过去的监狱和未来的监狱却不是开玩笑的。梭镖确实像玩具，但它总算是命运赐给我们维护自身自由的第一个机会呀。在革命早期的清教徒气氛中，妇女在壁垒上出现本身就是某种武器。而此时此地，这些男子和妇女的所作所为也都无愧于这种革命气氛，他（她）们庄重严肃地紧握着梭镖，矛头指向黑暗的天空。 如果说这些日子里也有人产生过低级的、淫欲的念头，那就只是那些呆在劳改营区之外的、佩带肩章的统治者们。他们的推测是：一星期听其自由活动而无人过问的囚犯，必将在营区内淫乱纵欲，为所欲为。主子们也正是这样向镇上的自由居民们描述的，说囚犯们就是为了淫乱目的才暴动的。（当然罗，过着酒足饭饱、无忧无虑的生活的囚犯们除了淫欲之外还可能有什么不满足之处呢？！） 劳改营当局的主要推测是：刑事犯必将开始强奸妇女，政治犯就会起来维护妇女，这样，必然会开始一场互相残杀。但是，内务部的心理学家们这次又错了。这也同样值得我们惊讶。一切都证明，小偷们这期间的所作所为也像人们一样，不过不是他们使用这个词的传统含义，而是我们所理解的人们。为了酬答他们的这种态度，政治犯和妇女们自己对待他们也特别友善，充满信任。至于在这背后是否还隐藏着别的什么原因，那就不是我们所能了解的了。也许小偷们仍然想着第一个星期天流血牺牲的同伴们吧。 如果要向肯吉尔暴动的力量来自何处，那么，应该说，来自团结一致。 小偷们并没有触动粮食仓库。对于了解他们本性的人来说，这一点同样令人惊讶。虽然仓库里的食品够用好多个月，但是罢工委员会商定：粮食及其他食品仍旧要按原标准发放。这是由于不敢吃得超过官方规定的伙食标准，怕将来追究浪费责任。奴性十足的恐惧感！好像在这许多饥饿的年代里国家没有欠下囚犯的债似的！相反，简直笑人：留在营区外面的劳改营首长们还必需从总务大院领供给，那有什么！--委员会根据他们的请求让波尔图什金上尉（此人不坏，在前方打过仗的）进入大院，他按自由人的供给标准，把食品，如干果之类，定期给首长们运出去。囚犯们一概放行。 劳改营的财务科按原标准发放食物，伙房领来做饭。不过，在新的革命气氛中，炊事员不再偷窃，不再有刑事犯的使者奉命到伙房来替别人领取伙食，也不再给那些杂役们多盛几勺了。因此，尽管供应量并未增加，伙食量却明显地比以前增加了！ 这时期也有个别刑事犯卖一些东西给别人（这是他们从前在别处抢来的），但是现在他们不像过去那样卖后立即又把东西强要回去了。用他们自己的话说："现在不是那个时候了！" 甚至地方供销部门开办的小商亭也照旧在营区内营业，指挥部答应保障自由公民女收款员的人身安全。她在没有看守护送的情况下可以进出营区，在营区内由两名女青年护送到各个小商亭向售货员收缴贷款--内部流通券。（但是，囚犯手里的内部流通券很快就用完了，而且统治者不允许继续向营区进货。） 统治者手里还剩下三样可向营区供应的东西--电、水、药品。众所周知，空气是不由他们支配的。至于药品，在整整四十天的时间里他们没有供给营区一片药，一滴碘酒。罢工开始两三天后他们切断了电源，停止了供水。 技术部开始为光明而斗争。最初想出的办法是：在细电线上绑两个钩子，把它甩到劳改营墙外，挂住墙外的电线。这样偷了几天电，后来这些"触须"被切断了。这期间技术部实验过风力发电机，但又放弃了。后来又在总务科大院选了个从了望塔上和低飞的"U－2"型飞机上看不见的地方，组装起一座小型"水力发电站"，利用……自来水管的水发电！把总务科大院里原有的一台发动机改装成了发电站。发出的电力只能供营区的电话网、指挥部照明补……无线电发报机使用！各工棚只好点燃松明……这个举世无双的"水力发电站"一直工作到暴动的最后一天。 暴动刚刚开始时，将军们还像主人一样到营区里来走走。而且，那个叫库兹涅佐夫的代表果然手段高明--第一次谈判时他就首先命令从停尸房把死尸抬出来，而后大声下命令："脱帽！"囚犯们都把帽子摘下来了，于是将军们也不得不在自己造成的牺牲品面前脱下他们的军帽。但是，总的主动权还是掌握在古拉格的将军博奇科夫手里。他赞同选出一个委员会（"总不能同时跟大家一起谈话呀！"），他要求谈判代表们发言时首先讲明自己的案情（于是库兹涅佐夫就滔滔不绝地、也许还是很乐意地讲述起自己的案情来）。博奇科夫还要求囚犯发言时一定要站起来。当有个代表刚说出一句："囚犯们要求……"时，博奇科夫立即敏感地反驳说："囚犯们只能请求，而不能要求！"这样，"囚犯们请求……"这种表达方式也就规定下来了。 对于囚犯们的请求，博奇科夫的回答是大讲社会主义建设、国民经济的空前高涨、中国革命的胜利成就。这种盲目自负的间接洗脑办法总是使我们变得意志薄弱、无话可说……他来到营区的目的是想解释他们开枪射击是正确的，（他们很快便要宣布，根本没有向营区开枪，那都是匪徒们的造谣。也根本没有殴打犯人！）而有的囚犯代表竟敢请求他违反"关于分别关押囚犯的指令"，这简直使他大为惊奇。（在他们看来，他们的"指令"就像某种永世长存、天经地义的法律一样。） 很快又有一些新的、更显要的将军们乘"道格拉斯"飞来了：这是多尔吉赫（似乎当时是劳改营总管理局的局长）和叶戈罗夫（苏联内务部副部长）。他们在食堂召开大会，将近两千名囚犯去参加了。又是库兹涅佐夫下令："注意！起立！立正！"他敬了礼，把将军们让到主席团就座，他自己则由于官级较低而站在一旁。（斯鲁钦科夫的表现则不同。当某个将军在讲话中提到人民的敌人时，斯鲁钦科夫立即以响亮的声音反问他："你们中间谁不是敌人？雅戈达是敌人！叶若夫是敌人！阿巴库莫夫是敌人！贝利亚是敌人！谁能保证现在的克鲁格洛夫就不是敌人呢？"） 马克耶夫在笔记里写道，他曾拟了一个协议草案，规定劳改营当局保证不把任何囚犯转押到别处去，不实行镇压，开始复查案件，囚犯们则同意立即复工。但是当他和他的支持者们拿这个方案到各工棚去征求意见时，囚犯们却报之以奚落，称他们为"完了头的共青团员"，"特派推销员"和"契卡的奴才"。他们在妇女劳改点看到的反对情绪尤为激烈。人们现在特别不能接受的是划分男区和女区。（马克耶夫也在盛怒之下冲着反对者叫喊："你小子刚刚在娘儿们那里得了一点便宜，就以为苏维埃政权完蛋了吗？告诉你，苏维埃政权会坚持照自己的意见办事的！"） 一天天过去了。将军们通过了望塔上的士兵的眼睛，通过现在呆在了望塔上的看守们的眼睛（看守们认得囚犯，因此便让他们从那里观察并记住囚犯们在干些什么），甚至通过（也许是携带照像机的）飞行员的眼睛，一刻也没有停止对营区活动的观察。但是，将军们不得不遗憾地得出结论：营区内没有互相残杀，没有暴行和摧残，没有强奸，营区自己不会垮台，也