An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North
S.A. Malsagoff
Language: English
Pages: 213
ISBN: 2:00297396
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A classic on the early gulags, recommended by Solzhenitzyn. Worthwhile reading.
Took some time to clean up a dirty PDF that was lying around.
in t h e mos t cruel man ner. Nowhere is the pri nci ple " one for all and all for one " put i nto application in so high a degree as among the common cri m i nals of the Solov ky. In the middle of had for a I 924 a gang long ti me evaded all at tempts to c apture t hem , were arrested i n M oscow. a of footpa ds, who Thei r leader wa s b and i t named M oiseiko ; h i s fellow-ro bbers n ick named h i m Petlura, for which reason the members of the band were called " Petluri sts. "
For example, among the p r i so n e r s th ere i s the aged C oun tess Frederi k s . During t h e war, as a Red Cross nurse, t h e old lady p e r form e d adm i rable s e rv ic e in ten d i ng wounded officers and men . now, And in t h e camp, she recei ves n o p arcels from t h e Red C ross, g i ves wha t h el p s h e c a n t o the s i ck, and lives in a state of permanen t semi-starvation, subj ected ceaselessly t o j eers and i nsults. She was transported for no other
have the world believe, are i n tended to make the pri soners mend their ways and become useful c i t i zens o f the Sov i et Republ i c . I n real i ty, t h e camp puni shments, l i ke t h e camp m ed i cal arrangeme n t s, are based upon no other cal cula tion than that of send i ng the largest possible n umber of pri soners, more or less swi ftly, to " the o ther side . " Refusal t o work, i nsubordi nation towards the a u t hori ties, " counter-revolutionary propaganda," insulting w o
I gave the Red soldier a blow in the side, and he fell . I was for shooti ng the two soldiers ; they were both Communists and belonged to the G p u troop s. But Bezson off p e rsu ad e d me n ot to do so, argui ng that an act o f vengeance a t s u c h a m o m e nt was useless, and th a t no o n e would gai n anyth i ng by it. A t tha t momen t the K u b a n Cos s ac k , w h o had flung h i n1 sel f on the ground i n surpri se, stretched ou t h i s h a n d s to u s , and cri ed : " L
motor l au n ch , wi th six soldiers on board, came up to the bank from the direction of the mouth of the Shomba, of the Kem . a tributary The Red soldi ers in the house leapt out of the windows on the opposi te side, faci ng the river. I d i d not see any use in firi ng . Bezsonoff, however, fired at the launch . The Tchekists leap t ashore and flung themselves into the woods. Y/eep ing and loaded wi th waili ng aro s e from another boat, women Karelian fishermen. woods. and