Chapter 74 2

The demands, or requests, of the insurgents, which had already been passed in the first two days of the insurrection, now need only be repeated endlessly, namely: --Punish the murderer who shot and killed the members of the Evangelical Church; --Punish all those responsible for the Sunday night massacre at the General Administration compound; -- punish those who beat women; --Release all comrades who were illegally imprisoned in secret prisons because of the strike; --Remove the number cloth, remove the iron fence on the window of the shed, and do not lock the shed; -- Do not repair the interior walls between the labor camps;

-- Implement the man-hour labor system like free workers; --Increase labor remuneration (did not even dare to propose equal pay for equal work with free workers); -- Free communication with immediate family members is allowed, and visits are sometimes allowed; -- Start reviewing cases immediately. Although none of these demands shake the foundations of the state system and are not unconstitutional (and many items are simply requests to return to the previous state), it is impossible for the rulers to accept even the least important of them, because These fat heads with neatly trimmed hair only at the back of the neck, these bald men covered by military caps, have long been unaccustomed to admitting any mistakes and sins of their own.If the truth is expressed not in the secret instructions of the higher authorities, but from the mouths of the common people, then they will never recognize it as truth, and will feel disgusted with it.

But the long standing still of eight thousand prisoners in the siege would, after all, discredit the generals; it would damage their reputations and possibly ruin their careers.So, they agreed anyway.They promised that almost all of these demands could be complied with, except (for the sake of air) one; that it would be difficult, and even "shouldn't be done," to not separate the women's camps. (As if this hadn't been practiced in ordinary labor camps for the past twenty years!) However, "some other options could be considered", such as establishing fixed meeting days and the like.As for the formation of an investigation committee in the camp to start the investigation (the shooting incident), the generals agreed on the spot. (However, Shruchenkov saw through their ruse and insisted not to mention this: otherwise the informants would "stab" everything in the camp under the pretext of giving testimony to the investigative committee.) Review the case?Of course, the case needs to be reviewed, but it will take a while.The most urgent thing now is to go to work!Go to work!Go to work!

Of course the prisoners saw this very clearly: this was to divide the prisoners into teams, force them to fall to the ground with weapons, and then arrest the leaders. So the representatives replied across the table: No!Some people in the crowd shouted: No!The Steprag management has gone too far!We can't trust the leadership of Steplager!We can't trust the Ministry of the Interior! "You don't even trust the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" The deputy minister present was shocked by this rebellion, and couldn't help touching his forehead. "Who made you hate the Ministry of Internal Affairs so much?"

Can't you understand? "Send the Party Presidium! We want to see the Party Presidium! Then we will believe it!" shouted the prisoners. "Don't regret it! Maybe it will be even more unfavorable to you!" The generals threatened. At this moment Kuznetsov stood up and spoke.He stood proudly at the other party with his head upright, and warned in a relaxed and methodical way: "If you want to get into the camp with weapons, please don't forget that half of them are the men who took Berlin. They can take your weapons too!" This is Kapiton? Kuznetsov!Future historians who write the history of the Kengil uprising will certainly introduce us to this figure.How did he understand and spend his life in prison?How did he understand his arrest?Since Moscow ordered his release (and at the same time rehabilitated him) just in the middle of the uprising, did he ask for a review early on?Was it simply his sense of duty as a professional soldier that he kept the riotous labor camp in such good order?Did he come forward to lead the movement because he felt sympathetic to it? (I don’t think so.) Again, in order to restrain the movement, in order to contain the flood in the embankment (by containing Sluchenkov and prevent mutual killings on both sides), in order to turn the movement into What about subdued docile waves and placed at the feet of the authorities before they come forward to lead it? (I think so.) At a meeting of representatives, in a negotiation, or through a minor character, it is possible for him to convey the message he wants to convey to the crusaders, and to make them say what he wishes to hear. If you arrive.In June, for example, he had sent the shrewd figure of Marko to negotiate outside the camp on behalf of the committee.Did Kuznetsov take advantage of a similar opportunity?Maybe he didn't.Perhaps his attitude is independent, and his conduct may be proud.

Two bodyguards, two Ukrainian burly men, followed Kuznetsov all the time with sabers at their waists, never leaving him. Are they doing it for defense?Or for revenge? (Makeyev also asserts that during the uprising, Kuznetsov had a temporary wife who was also a Bandera.) Gleb Sluchenkov was only thirty years old.In other words, he was only nineteen years old when he was captured by the German army.Now, like Kuznetsov, he put on an old military uniform taken out of the storage room, trying to show a military look.He had a slight limp, but that was belied by his quick movements. During the negotiation, his attitude was clear and fierce.The camp authorities came up with a solution; to take "past juvenile delinquents" (that is, people who were arrested before the age of eighteen and are now twenty-one or twelve years old) outside the camp and released separately.This is probably not necessarily a hoax, because many other places were indeed releasing such people at that time or their sentences had been commuted.But Shrutchenkov replied: "Have you asked the ex-delinquents themselves whether they would leave their comrades here and transfer themselves from one camp to another?" (at a meeting of the Insurrection Committee he He insisted: "These juvenile delinquents are our reliable force, and we cannot let them go!" The main reason why the generals wanted to release these people during the riots was that they were "a reliable force". As for whether they will be taken out again They were locked in confinement rooms outside the camp, so that’s unknown.) However, the law-abiding Makeyev still investigated the former juvenile delinquents who were willing to go through the "release procedures". Of the nine former juvenile delinquents, only thirteen were willing to go out.It is surprising that this proof comes from Makeyev, who tried to please the authorities and was hostile to the uprising; four hundred young people in the prime of life, most of whom were not political prisoners, not only gave up their freedom, but He also gave up his chance of being saved, and voluntarily stayed among the doomed rioters...

In response to the threat of force issued by the generals, Sluchenkov replied: "You send troops! You send more submachine gunners! We will throw glass shards in their eyes and surrender their submachine guns! We will send you Destroy the entire Kengil garrison! Drive your Roin-legged officers all the way to Karaganda, step on your backs into Karaganda! It's all ours there!". The testimony of others about Sluchenkov is also credible.It is said that he once held up the Finnish short knife and said, "Whoever wants to run away, the knife will be stabbed in the chest!" He also announced in the work shed: "Whoever does not go out to participate in self-defense, whoever is ready to kill me!" This is also the inevitable logic of the development of all military regimes and military states...

The nascent camp government, like all governments, ancient and modern, could not survive without an internal security service, which was also headed by Sluchenkov (his "military department" was located in the operatives' offices of the women's camps).Since there was no hope of defeating external forces, Shruchenkov understood that this position meant for him an inevitable death sentence.He told the prisoners in the labor camps in the days of the riots; the rulers once made him a proposal in stern secrecy to provoke ethnic massacres among the prisoners (people with gold epaulettes had great hopes for this) , so as to create a good excuse for the authorities to send troops into the camp.The masters promised that if Sluchenkov could do this, his life would be saved afterwards.But Shruchenkov flatly rejected the deal. (What advice did the master give to other people? Others kept their mouths shut!) Not only that, but when Sluchenkov heard rumors that atrocities against Jews were about to occur in the labor camps, he immediately issued a warning: People who make such rumors should be whipped in public.The rumors were immediately suppressed.

It was inevitable that Shruchenkov would come into conflict with the orthodox.This conflict finally happened.It should be noted that the orthodox in all the camps have condemned the "slaughter" of eyeliners over the years, and they do not even approve of any struggle for the prisoners' rights.Although they have their low-level calculations in doing this (many orthodox elements are lackeys of the "Godfather" of the labor camp), but at the same time, they also have a set of "theoretical" basis: they admit that they come from above, any form adopted by the authorities, even Repression and extermination on a large scale, they regard it as a manifestation of the dictatorship of the proletariat; but the same action, even a sudden, isolated, scattered action, as long as it is launched from below, they regard it as a bandit atrocities of the "Bangeralist" type (none of these orthodox elements have ever recognized the right of Ukraine to secession, because in their view, this recognition is tantamount to bourgeois nationalism).The political convicts refused to engage in slave labor and were outraged by the iron fence and the random shooting of prisoners.All this made the docile Communists in the labor camp sad, distressed, and frightened.

The same is true of Kenjill.At this moment, the orthodox faction came out in full force. (There are Genkin, Apfelzweig, Tara Laevsky; apparently Akoyev, the names of several others are unknown to us. There is also a chronically ill man who Lying in the hospital for many years, saying that he, "the soles of his feet are always spinning", they admit this type of intellectual struggle. And their representative in the riot committee is obviously Makeyev.) They started from the beginning of the struggle Just accused "shouldn't have started", after the gap in the boundary wall was blocked, they accused that the tunnel should not be dug.They believed that all this was instigated by the remaining Bandera elements.Now they advocate early concessions. (Yes, the sixteen people who were killed were not part of their labor camp; as for complaining about that evangelical, it's ridiculous!) The exasperation of their sect is everywhere in Makeyev's notes.They feel that everything around them is stupid, and everyone else is stupid; that there are dangers on every side--the authorities will give them extra sentences;"They wanted to scare everyone with iron and destroy everyone," Makeyev wrote. He called the Kenjill riot a "bloody game" playing "false trump cards" and the Banderas' "amateurs." entertainment", he also often referred to the event as a "wedding ceremony".Makeyev believed that what the leaders of the insurrection were after was all about licentiousness, avoidance of labor, and postponement of punishment (which he believed to be just, of course, given to people).

This view faithfully reflected the attitude of the orthodox towards the freedom movement in the labor camps of the 1950s.However, Makeyev was quite cautious, and he even participated in the leadership of the riot.Another man, Taralayevsky, made these accusations publicly, and the Ministry of Internal Security headed by Shruchenkov put him in prison for "inciting hostile uprisings." Yes, that's it.The inmates who revolted and liberated the prison now run their own prison.This is ridicule, but this ridicule is also ancient.However, a total of only four people were imprisoned for various crimes (someone also tipped off the authorities), and none of them were shot (on the contrary, these people later had evidence that they could prove to the camp leaders that they had not participated in the rebellion). Prisons, in general, were the place to be visited throughout the uprising, especially the dark part of the old prison built in the thirties.There is a single cell with only one entrance and exit on the roof and no windows. There is a "wooden bed" without legs, that is, a bed board is placed directly on the concrete floor for the prisoners to sleep on. The bed board is obviously colder than the cell itself. Damp; on the concrete floor next to the "wooden bed", there is a large bowl made of rough pottery like a dog bowl. The Committee's Propaganda Department organizes tours of these old prisons for prisoners, especially for those who have never lived in such prisons in the past and may not be able to live in them in the future.When the generals came to the camp, they were also shown around. (But they were not surprised by this!) The Propaganda Department also asked the generals to organize a visit here for free workers from the town, because if there were no prisoners working on the construction site, those people would not work anyway.The generals even actually sent some people, not ordinary workers, of course, but selected people, who showed no indignation after their visit. As a reciprocal measure, the generals also suggested that the Propaganda Department organize a group of prisoners to visit the mines (that is, to Steplag's No. 1 and No. 2 branches), because we have rumors that there were also riots there. (Here, by the way, both slaves and slaveholders of the time for their own reasons avoided using the word "riot" and another, worse word, "revolt", and used a shy, less jarring, peaceful Noun "spring break".) The prisoners did choose some to ride in the car, and they saw that the prisoners there were actually working as usual. How much hope is placed in the spread of the strike!And visitors bring back nothing but frustration. (The idea of ​​showing people around was timely! In fact, the prisoners at the mine had already heard some rumors from the free workers about the Kenjill riots, and of course there were fluctuations. June happened to have many applications for review being rejected There was a refusal. A crazy kid was shot and wounded next to the restricted area. So a strike was declared at the mines, and people broke out in the boundary wall between the labor camps and poured out. Machine guns were set up on the watchtowers. Someone put up an anti-Soviet banner with the slogan "Freedom or Death!" However, this banner was quickly removed and replaced with a banner that made reasonable demands and stated : As soon as these demands are met, it is guaranteed to recover the losses caused by the strike. Several trucks came to take flour from the warehouse, which was not given by the prisoners who occupied the warehouse. The strike continued for about a week. However, I have no information about this strike at hand. Accurate materials, these are from third parties, and may be exaggerated.) In short, for a few weeks Kenjill's "war" turned into a propaganda war.The radio outside the camp is non-stop all day long: several loudspeakers are installed around the camp, and the appeals and news (fake news) for all prisoners are broadcast to the camp area in turn, and sometimes one or two old, disgusting, tormenting you record of every nerve; The girl roams the fields, she is my love, I have long fallen in love with her beautiful braided hair. (However, it's worth the uprising even for the slightest right to hear this old record! You know, even this kind of rags isn't for people on their knees.) Playing them also fits Zeitgeist; they acted as broadcast jammers, jamming broadcasts from the camps aimed at guard fighters. The broadcasts outside the camp consisted of the following: slandering our entire movement, asserting that its only purpose was rape and robbery (although the prisoners in the labor camp listened to it, but it was for the free residents of the villages and towns! Originally The slave owners are not at such a high level to give any more noble explanations! As for admitting that we foolish people can still pursue justice and axioms, this level of thinking is simply beyond their reach); "Private scandal" (they even go so far as to say that a certain chieftain dug a hole in the bottom of the boat while being escorted across the Kolyma River, the barge sank and three hundred prisoners drowned. The broadcast also emphasized that the drowned They were all poor prisoners, and almost all of them violated Article 58, and they didn't drown the escort soldiers. I don't know how he didn't drown himself); a war of nerves against Kuznetsov—say It had been approved to release him, but now it has been withdrawn; it kept calling: go to work!Go to work!Why should the motherland feed you for nothing?If you don't work, it will cause huge losses to the country! (Are you expecting to use these words to touch those who are destined to live here forever?!) The entire coal train is parked there and no one is unloading it! (The prisoners laughed: "Let it stop! You will give in earlier!" However, the prisoners did not remember: since the loss hurt them so much, why didn't the men with gold epaulets be mobilized to unload the truck?) However, Riot's technology department is not showing signs of weakness.They found two movie projectors in the General Affairs Division compound, and used the amplifiers on them instead of speakers.Of course, not much power.Power is supplied by a secret hydroelectric power station! (The insurrectionary prisoners had electricity and radios, which surprised and disturbed the rulers. They feared that the insurgents would assemble a transmitter and send news of the uprising abroad. Rumors of this kind were also spread within the camps.) The labor camp also had its own announcer (among them Slava Yarimovskaya the most famous).Breaking news, broadcast news (plus daily posters and comics).There is also a program called "Crocodile Tears", which mocks the guards: "They used to beat women cruelly, but now they pretend to worry about women's fate." There are also programs broadcast exclusively for guards.In addition, prisoners approached the watchtower at night and shouted at the guards with microphones. But the stations were not powerful enough to reach the free inhabitants of the villages and towns; and these were the only possible sympathizers to be found in Kengil, and most of them had been exiled here.The village and town authorities, not by broadcasting, but by some means beyond the reach of the prisoners, spread a mass of rumors to confuse the minds of these people: that bloodthirsty gangsters now control the labor camps and lascivious whores (this statement worked particularly on women in villages and towns); that honest people were being tortured and killed in the labor camps, and were being thrown into the furnace and burned alive (but I don't understand why the authorities didn't intervene !…). One kilometer, two kilometers, three kilometers away, how do we get these people outside the walls to hear us?They have to be told, "Brothers! We only want justice! They kill us without reason! They treat us like dogs! We ask nothing else..." But how to tell them?People in a technical department know that they are no match for modern science and technology, so they have to turn their minds backwards and turn to technology from before the century.The General Affairs Division compound has everything, as already mentioned.For many years, for the officers of Zhezkazgan, this place can not only manage the capital's fashion stores, but also replace various field supplies and repair factories. The French brother Montgolfier proudly made a balloon, or made a huge balloon.A bundle of leaflets is tied to the balloon, a brazier is hung under the balloon, and burning charcoal is installed, which can let hot air enter the balloon through the opening in the lower part of the balloon.Make the balloon go up.The prisoners gathered in the courtyard with glee (the prisoners were as happy as children) to watch this strange anti-aircraft device rise and fly towards the wall!But woohoo!The wind speed that day exceeded the speed of the balloon's ascent, and the ball flew over the wall, and the brazier below was caught by the wires outside the wall. The balloon, which lost its thermal supply, fell down and burned together with the leaflets. After this failure.They filled the balloon again with smoke.These balloons fly well with a favorable wind, and enable the townspeople to see the slogan hung on it in large letters: "Save the beaten women and the elderly!" "Demand to send members of the Presidium of the Party Central Committee!" The guard soldiers shot the balloons with their guns. At this time, several Chechen prisoners suggested to the technical department to make kites (they are good at making kites).Soon a lot of kites were made out, and they could be put into the sky over villages and towns far away.There is a small mechanism tied to the kite, which can be opened when the kite flies above the predetermined position, and a bunch of leaflets hanging on it will fall down.The kite-flyers sat on the roofs of the sheds and watched the developments.Sometimes the leaflets fell not far from the camp, so the guards ran to pick them up; if they were far away, they sent motorcyclists or cavalry to pick them up.In short, try to keep this independent truth from being seen by free residents (the last sentence of the leaflet is to ask everyone who reads it to try to send it to the Party Central Committee). Soldiers also shoot kites, but kites are not as easily damaged as balloons.But the other party quickly came up with a countermeasure that ViewSonic sent out a large number of guards, which was much cheaper.They also used kites to catch and wrap around our kites. Kite battles in the second half of the twentieth century!This is to silence the voice of truth... (In order to explain the epochal background of the Kenjill incident, we may wish to ask the reader to recall some events that took place in the free outside world at the time of this riot. At that time: the Geneva Conference on the Indian Section was in session. The French Pierre Go Received the Stalin Peace Prize: Another progressive French writer, Sartre, came to Moscow. In order to participate in the progressive life of our society; celebrated with great fanfare the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia. May 31st in Red Square A grand military parade or parade was held on. The Markland SSR and the Russian SFSR were awarded the Order of Lenin. In June June, the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky was unveiled in Moscow. The National Congress of Trade Unions Since the official inauguration on June 8 (though, of course, nothing was said about Kenjill at the convention). On June 10 the government issued a bond. On June 20 Air Force Day, a spectacular parade was held at Tuhino. Another thing that stood out during the two months of 1954 was the powerful offensive launched on the so-called literary and artistic front: Surkov, Kochetov and Ermilov published aggressive articles, posing Kochetov even asked: "What era is this?" However, no one said to him: "This is the era of labor camp uprising!" Many erroneous plays and novels of this period were criticized. Criticism. And in Guatemala, imperialist America got a well-deserved blowback.) There were also exiled Chechens in the town of Kengil, but it is unlikely that the guards' kites were made by Chechens.We cannot say that the Chechens ever helped the oppressors.They understood the significance of the Kengil uprising very clearly, and once sent a carload of bread to the camp, but of course, they were immediately driven away by the army. (Just about these Chechens by the way. As far as Kazakhstan is concerned, Chechens are really not popular with people around: they are rude, fierce, openly hate Russians. However, as long as the Kengils show a little independence Spirit and bravery, you will immediately win the favor of Chechens! So, when we feel that people do not respect us very much, we should check our attitude towards life.) During this period, the Technology Department was making the long-rumored "secret" weapon.It's actually quite simple: just fill a kind of aluminum curved tube with match heads doped with calcium and sulfur compounds. (At this time, all the matchboxes were moved into the hut with the sign of "100,000 volts!"; the aluminum curved pipes were leftovers from the production of cattle drinking devices in the past, and there were many left in the warehouse.) Put the inside The match tip was lit with sulfur, and the curved pipe was thrown out, and it exploded with a hissing sound. But when, where, and how to strike with this weapon is up to these hapless smarts and the field headquarters in the bathroom.About two weeks after the start of the uprising, on a dark night without any lights, a heavy, dull crash was suddenly heard simultaneously from many places on the camp wall.But this time, it wasn't the escapees or the rioters who cut the wall, but the guards!The labor camp immediately became a mess, people were running back and forth with spears and sabers, and no one could figure out what was going on.The prisoners waited for the army to attack, but the army did not attack. It was only after dawn the next day that we found out that in addition to the few gaps that had already been opened in the wall of the camp, the external enemy had dug a dozen gaps (machine gunners were deployed outside the gaps to prevent prisoners from pouring out of the gaps). It is to prepare to attack the camp.So tense defense preparations were launched in the camp.The headquarters decided: demolish the inner wall and adobe wall of the camp, and build a second wall on the inner line of each gap, especially use adobe to strengthen the place facing the gap to protect against machine gun shooting. Everything is reversed!Now the guards are destroying the wall, but the prisoners are building it!Including the thieves are also seriously building the wall, thinking that this does not violate their rules. It was also necessary to assign new duty officers at each gap, and to designate a certain platoon to be responsible for a certain place.At night, when you hear the alarm, you must run to the designated defensive location in strict accordance with the regulations.The prescribed alarm signal was a bang on a bumper that had been removed from a van, and that extra loud whistle. The prisoners were seriously preparing to charge forward at the machine guns with spears in hand.Those who didn't have such determination were at first worried, and gradually got used to the idea. As long as you pass this level, a flat road is in front of you! At one point, the soldiers attacked during the day.There was a gap facing the balcony in front of the Steppe Battalion Administration Building.At that time the balcony was crowded with officers, flashing epaulets of various widths and narrows.They hold movie cameras and video cameras.Soldiers with submachine guns drove towards the gap.But they are not moving fast.They advanced only so far as to induce the camp to sound the alarm.As soon as the alarm sounded, the platoons of prisoners ran towards the designated openings, waving school badges and carrying stones and adobes into the defenses.barrier.At this time, the movie cameras and cameras on the balcony rang one after another (of course the submachine gunners would not be photographed).Then the camp officers, prosecutors, political instructors, and everyone present, all party members, of course, burst into gleeful laughter at the grotesque spectacle performed by these fanatical primitives armed with pikes!These well-fed, unscrupulous high-ranking figures are teasing and laughing at their starving, deluded fellow countrymen from their balconies.They thought it was very ridiculous. Afterwards, from time to time guards sneaked up to the opening, trying to throw a noose with a hook in order to trap one or two "tongues" away like wild animals and snowmen. Their best hope, however, rests on the escape of the wavering elements.The loudspeaker keeps calling: Wake up, wake up!Run out of the gap!Come out of here we don't shoot!Anyone who runs over will not be held accountable for rioting! The Riot Committee responded via its own broadcast: "Whoever wants to flee for his life, let him go! You can also go through the front watchtower! We will not stop anyone!" Someone did exactly that, and that was... ex-Major Makeyev, a member of the Insurrection Committee.He pretended to be doing something, approached the front watchtower, and passed. (He feigned it, not because others would stop him or possibly shoot him in the back, but because it was almost impossible to be a traitor in front of openly laughing comrades!) He had been faking it for three full weeks, and now he could Feel free to vent his desire for the defeat of the movement and his hatred of the uprising, because he, Makeyev, does not need the kind of freedom that the insurgents demand.Now he can make meritorious deeds and atone for his crimes in front of his master, calling on the prisoners to surrender early through the radio and attacking all those who insist on fighting.Let us read his own account of that broadcast talk: "It was just that some one decided that freedom could be achieved with saber and pike... They wanted to put those who would not take up arms under the fire of bullets... ...the leadership has promised to review our case. The generals are patiently negotiating with us, but Shruchenkov regards this attitude as weakness. The riot committee has actually become a talisman for the rampant bandits...you Negotiations worthy of being a political prisoner should take place instead of (!!) pointless fortifications!" The gap in the wall remained open and remained open for most of the entire riot.However, a total of eleven or two people escaped through the gap in a few weeks. Why?Do people really believe in victory?No.Don't you really worry about the punishment you will receive?Of course distressed.Don't you really want to save your life for your family?Want to save!At that time, there may have been a lot of people who were struggling with these problems and seriously thinking secretly about the possibility of survival.As for those former juvenile delinquents, they had perfectly legitimate reasons to go out.But the temperature of society in this small patch of land had risen to such an extent that, if not the complete remelting of the souls, at least its surface had been remelted.Therefore, those too low-level laws - "Life is only once", existence determines consciousness, greed for life and fear of death will make people cowardly, etc., in this short period of time, in this limited land, all are lost. played a role.The law of survival and sanity points out the way for people: surrender together or flee separately.However, they neither surrendered nor fled!They have risen to a new spiritual height, and from there they proclaim to the executioners: "Do what you want, damn it! You kill it, you kill it! You bite it!" In this way, a well-planned campaign by the authorities failed.It had been hoped that the prisoners would scatter like rats through the gaps, and that the most recalcitrant elements left in the camp would then be freed.This move failed.It failed because it was invented by some people who were greedy for life and afraid of death. There used to be a picture on the wall newspaper run by the prisoners. It showed a woman pointing to the handcuffs under the glass cover and saying to her child: "This is what they used to handcuff your father!" A cartoon, entitled: "The Last Collaborators," shows a black cat running through a gap. Caricatures are always laughing; but the prisoners in the camp had nothing to laugh about.The second, third, and fourth weeks after the riots have passed, and we have entered the fifth week.What should not have existed even for an hour under the laws of the Gulag now exists for an unbelievable, even embarrassingly long period: since the second half of May, now the entire month of June is almost over .At first, people were excited and even a little ecstatic because of victory, freedom, meetings and various clever ways of fighting that they thought up.Later, I believed the rumors that there was an uprising in the mines, and perhaps Churbainura, Spassk, and the entire Steppe Battalion would follow suit!Maybe even Karaganda!The whole Gulag archipelago might explode, blow it to pieces!But the prisoners in the mines didn't revolt, they still had their hands clipped upside down, their heads bowed, they worked twelve hours a day and they were infected with silicosis, and they didn't care about Kenjill or even themselves. There is no one to support the isolated island of Kenjill.Now it was impossible to escape to the steppe: some troops were brought in, and they lived in tents on the steppe.A new layer of barbed wire was added outside the entire labor camp.It was hoped that the master would come (at that time Urinkov was expected to come), he would know right from wrong, and everything would be settled.But it's just a tiny dot of rosy hope.Originally hoped that a great benevolent person would come, he clapped his hands together and said, "Alas!See what life they lead here!How do you treat them?The murderer must be punished!Shoot Chechev and Belyaev!Demote everyone else! ...However, this "point of hope" is too small, and its rose color is too pretty.In fact, what will come will be far from mercy or grace.People were living out their last few days of freedom and joy before being at the mercy of the Steppe Battalion Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.At any time, some people cannot stand the tension.Some people have already been crushed inside, and they are just distressed by the fact that the suppression of reality has not come.Some people are already thinking secretly: I am not involved in anything, if I do it carefully in the future.也许不会遭殃。也有个别的新婚夫妇（他们甚至是按照真正的教堂仪式结婚的，否则面都马克兰姑娘是不会出嫁的呀。多亏古拉格的照顾，使得劳改营里现在有各种教派的神职人员可以帮助举行仪式），他们的痛苦和甜蜜极为复杂地交织在一起，这是那些过着慢悠悠的生活的人所永远不可能理解的。这些新婚夫妇把每一天都当作生命的最后一天而度过，只要昨夜镇压没有来临，他们便把今天的早晨看作天赐之福。 宗教信徒们则不住地祈祷，他们把肯吉尔营中的惶惶不安放到神的肩上，因此，他们一如既往是营区最平静的人。大食堂里按照时间表轮流进行各种教派的宗教祈祷仪式。犹太教派的人们坚持自己的教旨：不拿武器，不参加修筑壁垒，不参加站岗放哨。他们长时间地静坐，微低着头，一言不发。 （分派给他们的工作是洗碗。）营里还出现了一位预言家，他在人们的床头煞有介事地画十字，预告世界末日的到来。恰巧这时来了一股寒流，气温骤然下降（哈萨克斯坦夏天偶尔也有寒流）。他召集起的一些老太婆穿着单薄的衣服坐在冰冷的土地上，把颤抖的双手伸向空中。是啊，还能伸向什么人呢？ ... 有些人清楚地知道自己已经无可挽回地牵连进去，只有军队攻进之前这几天可以活了，但他们认为，那也得尽量坚持到底，该做的事还得做。因此，这些人还不算是最不幸的。（最不幸的是那些本来没有牵连进去，但却祈求末日早些来临的人。） 但是，当所有这些人聚在一起开会讨论投降还是坚持下去的时候，他们便又都回到那样一种社会温度中了，这种温度能使他们的个人意见完全熔化，甚至根本不复存在、也许是他们害怕别人的嘲笑甚于害怕即将到来的死亡吧。 "同志们！我们也有火力防御手段。敌人如果攻进来，他们的损失至少会有我们的一半！"仪表党党的库兹涅佐夫对大家这样说，仿佛他掌摸着许多秘密，所有秘密部对囚犯有利似的。他还不止一次地说： "即使我们死掉，我们的死也绝不会是毫无意义的！" （这一点他说得完全正确。同所有的人一样，那种总的温度对他也起了作用。） 所以，当大家表决是否坚持下去的时候，大多数人赞成坚持。 这时，斯鲁钦科夫意味深长地威胁说。 "可当心点儿！谁要是留在我们队伍里而又想着投降，我们可要在投降前五分钟先处决他！" 有一天，营外的广播宣布了一项"劳改营总管理局命令"；鉴于斯捷普特种劳改营肯吉尔分部的囚犯拒绝劳动，鉴于该分部怠工，鉴于……鉴于……鉴于……唯命令解散肯吉尔分部并将其全体囚犯送往马加丹。（看来，古拉格当局还觉得我们这颗行星太小了。试问。那些没有闹事而早就被送去马加丹的人，他们是"鉴于u什么被送去的呢？）限令复工的最后日期是…… but.这个"最后日期"也过去了。一切仍然照旧。 一切仍然照旧。只是八千人的这种显然不可能的、前所未有的、悬在空中似的生活所具有的全部离奇性和梦幻性却在按部就班的劳改营日常活动的背景上显得更加突出了：这里一日三餐照常开饭。按规定的日期洗澡；洗衣房照常洗衣服，内衣按规定时间换；理发定按期理发；缝纫组和修鞋组照旧收活。这里甚至成立了调解纠纷的调解法庭。甚至还……释放人！ Yes.营外时而广播一些人的名单，招呼他们出去予以释放；有时这是某个国家的外国人，因为他们的政府已闹得清任可以把自己人召集到一起了。有时则是（或者似乎是）服刑期满的人……说不定劳改召当局正是利用这种办法叫出一些人去当"舌头"的--这样繁不必让看守用带钩的绳索套"舌头"了。暴动委员会也开会讨论营外广播的名单，但是因为无法核实，只好按名单全部放出去。 为什么这个时期拖得这么长？统治者们在等待什么？等待营里断粮？但他们理应知道粮食还能维持很久。是在考虑镇上居民的反应？这是根本无须担心的。是在制定镇压计划？那也可以快些呀。（不错，后来我们得知：这期间从古比雪夫附近调来一团"特种兵"，即讨伐团。要知道，并不是随便什么兵种都能够胜任讨伐工作的。）是在上商讨论镇压方案？那么是在哪一级讨论呢？哪一天哪一级作出了决定，这是我们无法知道的。 有几次，总务科大院的外大门突然打开了。也许是要检查防御者的准备程度吧？值班纠查队员立即发出警报，各排马上奔向指定地点。但是，却没有人向营区进攻。 营区防御体系的全部侦察工作是由坐在工棚屋顶上的观察哨担任的，从屋顶可以看到的一切便是进行预测和判断情况的全部根据。 六月中旬，镇上开来了许多拖拉机。拖拉机在营区附近工作或者像是在牵引什么，后来甚至夜里也不停止工作。这种夜间工作是我们不能理解的。于是我们开始在各个豁口的里面挖大坑以防万一（其实，这些都被"U-2型"飞机拍了照片或者画了图形）。 拖拉机的这种不祥的吼叫声似乎使人们心中的暗影变得更浓了。 突然，所有的怀疑论者全丢脸了I悲观锅里的人们丢脸了！凡是说过不会有宽恕、因而也无须请求什么的人们全丢脸了！"只有正统派可以庆祝胜利。六月二十二日统治者的广播宣布：接受囚犯们的全部要求！党中央主席团的一位成员已启程来肯吉尔； 原先那个玫瑰色希望的小点点如今变成了玫瑰色的太阳，变成玫瑰色的天空了！那就是说，我们能够达到目的！那就是说，我们国内还是有正义的！上面会对我们作些让步，我们也要有所让步。其实，带着号码生活也没有关系，窗上的铁栅栏也并不碍事，我们反正不想跳窗户跑嘛。又是在欺骗我们吗？可是并没有要求我们在这之前复工劳动呀． 就像用小棒一触切断了验电器的电荷，它那金属箔片便轻轻落下来一样，外部广播宣布的这条消息卸下了人们思想上最近一周来的沉重负担。 甚至那讨厌的拖拉机六月二十四日晚上喧闹了一阵之后也沉默下来了。 暴动开始后的第四十个夜晚的睡眠是十分宁静的。肯定明天那位主席团成员就会到达肯吉尔，说不定现在已经到了……这是短暂的六月的夜晚，是那种总也睡不够的六月的夜晚，因而人们在黎明前睡得特别香，就像十三年前"的六月一样。 六月二十五日，星期五，破晓之前的天空中突然亮起一颗颗 带降落伞的照明弹，四处的了望塔上也升起了照明弹。可是，各 工棚屋顶上的观察哨却都一声不吭，原来他们已经被狙击兵的子 弹消灭了。响起了隆隆的炮声。飞机在劳改营上空作超低空飞行。 气氛十分恐怖。久负盛名的T－34型坦克早已在拖拉机轰鸣声掩 蔽下进入阵地，这时一齐向各个豁口冲来。（其中一辆还是掉进坑 里了。）有的坦克后面拖着已经打好的叉形铁丝网支架，以便立即 用铁丝网把营区分开。另一些坦克后面则跟着头戴钢盔、手持冲 锋枪的突击队员。（在进攻开始之前，冲锋枪手和坦克手们都领了 伏特加河。不管是什么样的特种部队，要想让他们去镇压手无寸 铁、正在睡眠的人们的话，最好还是先让他们喝得醉醺醺的。）跟 随进攻部队前进的还有携带电台的通讯兵。照明弹使营区一带亮 如白昼，将军们登上了射手的了望塔，从那里指挥战斗："夺取那 个工棚！……库兹涅佐夫就在那儿！"（有一座了望塔被囚犯奶的 爆破管炸中，烧起来了。）这一次将军们并不像往常那样躲在观察 点后面，因为他们知道现在不会有中弹的危险。 镇上的自由工人们则从远处，从建筑工地的脚手架上观看这 场镇压。 劳改营惊醒了十乱成一团。有些人留在工棚里，趴在地上不 动，指望这样或许能保住性命，看不到抵抗有什么意义。另一些 人则想把他们拖起来去抵抗。还有一些人冒着弹雨冲了出去，冲 去战斗或者去寻求快死。 第三劳改点，也就是发起暴动的劳改点，顽强地进行抵抗（这里大部分是刑期二十五年的人，班杰拉分子占很大比重）。他们……朝着冲锋枪手和看守们扔石头，也可能还朝坦克扔了些装着硫磺的铝管……竟然没人想到那些装着碎玻璃的小盒子。有一个工棚的人曾两次喊着"乌拉！"发起反攻…… 坦克横冲直撞，一路上只管轧下去（坦克的履带从一个基辅妇女阿拉?普列斯曼的肚子上直轧过去）。坦克冲上工棚的台阶，一直轧过去（两名爱沙尼亚妇女英格丽德?基维和马赫拉曾被轧死了）。坦克紧贴着工棚的墙边轧过去，把那些贴在墙上躲避坦克履带的人轧死。谢苗?拉克和自己心爱的姑娘拥抱在一起冲到坦克下面结束了他们的一生。坦克轧倒工棚的板墙，甚至在工棚里面还继续放空炮。据法依娜?爱泼斯坦回忆说：就像在梦中似的，工棚的一角突然倒塌了，只见一辆坦克在工棚里从活人们身上斜着轧过来。没有被压着的妇女们从床上跳起来。到处乱窜。坦克后面紧跟着一辆卡车，士兵们把没有来得及穿好衣服的妇女们捉住扔进车厢。 他是空炮，但是自动步枪和刺刀却是实战用的。有的妇女用自己的身体掩护男人们，这些妇女同样被当场刺死！行动人员别利亚耶夫这一天早晨亲手杀死了二十多个人。在战斗结束之后，有人看见他把刀子放人被击毙者手中，让摄影师赶紧拍下这个被击毙的匪徒的照片。暴动委员会委员，白发苍苍的苏普伦肺部被打伤牺牲了。有些人躲进了厕所，他们被机枪打死在那里严 库兹涅佐夫在浴室，在他的指挥部里被抓住。强迫他跪在那里。斯鲁钦科夫被绑住双手抛向空中，摔到地上（刑事犯们常用的办法）。 在此之后，射击停止了。士兵们开始喊话："快从工棚里出来！ 不再开枪啦！"的确没有再开枪，只不过是用枪托打。 每捉住一批俘虏，就从大墙豁口带出去，穿过外围的肯吉尔 警卫部队包围困送进草原，搜身之后迫使他们趴伏在地上，两只 手伸到头上来。然后，内务部的飞行员和看守们便在这群伸着手 伏在地上的人群中走来走去，认出他们早在空中和了望塔上就已 经记住的人，把这些人揪出去。 （人们都在忙于这些事，所以谁都没有时间去翻翻当天的《真 理报》。而这一天的《真理报》上是有专题报道的--题为：《祖 国的一日》，内容是：冶金工人取得卓越成就；进一步扩大农业的 机械化收割面积！我们祖国的这一天到底是个什么样子，历史学 家们参考了这张报纸之后是不难综述的。 ) 好奇的军官们现在可以去看看总务科大院里的秘密了：用什 么办法发的电？"秘密武器"是怎么回事？ 胜利的将军们从了望塔上走下来，去用早餐。我不认识他们 中间的任何人，但我敢断言：在这个六月的早晨，他们的食欲是 不会差的，而且一定还喝了酒。喝几杯酒，热闹一下，这并不会 丝毫损害他们头脑中井然有序的正统思想。至于他们内心里想些 什么，那从外面是封得很严的。 据人们说，死伤人数是六百左右，而据我们几个月之后所看 到的肯吉尔劳改营分部生产计划科的材料，则是七百多。受伤的 人挤满了劳改营医院，不得不往城市医院里运送。（对自由居民宣 讲的是：士兵们放的都是空枪空炮，那是囚犯们自己互相残杀的 result. ) 本想让那些活下来的囚犯去挖坑埋死人的，但是为了避免把真相声张出去，还是把这项任务交给部队了。大约三百具尸体就埋在营区旁边，其余的理到草原上了。 六月二十五日，囚犯们整天都在烈日下伏在草原上（这些日子天气一直炎热），而营区内部则在进行彻底大搜查，全部东西都要拆开看看，抖抖。傍晚给草原上送来了面包和水。军官们已经编好了名单。他们按名单叫人，答应的就划上个记号，说明活着，发给一份口粮，并立即把他们按名单分开。 暴动委员会的委员们及其他受到怀疑的人关进了劳改营监狱。监狱不再是参观场所了。一千多人被挑出来，有的送进秘密监狱，有的押往科雷马河沿岸。（像往常一样，这些名单是胡乱编制的，许多什么都没干的人也上了名单。） Yes.这种平息叛乱的景象会使那些厌恶本书这几章的人感到心情舒畅的。他们想：这回我们保险了！谁也不必再躲进"储藏室"去，对讨伐者的报应是永远不会到来的！ 六月二十六日一整天强迫囚犯们拆除壁垒，堵住大墙豁口。 六月二十七日便带囚犯主劳动了。这时那等待已久的一列列货车才终于有人卸车了！ 镇压肯吉尔的坦克又开到矿山去，在那里的囚犯们面前绕了一阵子，以表示：你们也应该得出应有的结论！ ... 一九五五年秋季对暴动的领导者们进行了审判。当然，是秘密审判，我们对此很少了解……据说，库兹涅佐夫在法庭上态度坦然，他极力证明在当时情况下他的所作所为无可指责，不可能想出比他更好的办法了。我们不知道对他怎么判决的。斯鲁钦科夫、米哈伊尔?凯列尔、克诺普库斯三人想必是处决了，我的意思是说，一般地说一定是会枪决的，不过，也许一九五五年这个年头本身帮助减缓了他们的判决？ 在肯吉尔营又组织起了诚实认真的劳动生活。免不了要把不久前的暴乱者组织成突击作业班。全面地实行了经济核算制。售货亭开始售货。又弄来一些旧影片放映。看守和军官们又开始到总务科大院里为自己的小家庭制做点什么了；做一根钓鱼用的绞竿，钉个小匣子，修修女式手提包的拉锁之类。暴动过的鞋匠和裁缝（大多是立陶宛人和西部乌克兰人）如今又在替军官们缝制较软的高筒靴，替他们的妻子做衣服。照旧把犯人带到选矿场去替军官们剥下电缆上的铅皮，然后拿回营来铸成猎枪用的霰弹，军官们要去打羚羊嘛！ 不过，这时笼罩整个古拉格群岛的惊慌不安的情绪也感染了肯吉尔。所以，没有重新往窗上装铁栅栏，晚间工棚不再上锁了。开始实行"三分之二"提前假释的办法。甚至空前地对第五十八条囚犯采取了一个"撤消判决"的行动--释放了一批垂死的人。 墓地上的青草往往长得特别浓密，茁壮。 到了一九五六年便取消了那个营区。这时，留居当地的从前的流放犯才终于寻找到埋葬那些人的地方，并且把草原上采来的郁金香花奉献到这里。 "暴乱不可能取得成功。 因为，它一旦胜利，人们就不再用这个名称……" （罗伯特?彭斯） 每当您在莫斯科走过多尔戈鲁基的纪念碑前时，请您想一想吧；这座纪念碑是在肯吉尔暴乱的日子里揭幕的。这样，它似乎就成了为肯吉尔建立的纪念碑。