KUIBYSHEV, KUIBYSHEVA
Witness A: Volodya easily captivated people, especially people from a lower social group, who were supposed to be easily captivated.
Witness B: I used to be taken to spend time with Shakhurin like I was his toy. I knew that my job was to go to his dacha at the drop of a hat. We were in the same grade at school. My father served as a Commissar’s deputy, but my math teacher Mr. Gurvits once looked at me in a certain way and said in Latin: “What is permitted to Jupiter is not permitted to a bull,” and I understood my place. I went to apprentice at the aircraft factory, and didn’t ever speak to my parents about having my own motorcycle. When Volodya and Vano Mikoyan got Harleys, my father could also have gotten me a motorcycle, but with a peasant’s instinct he realized
