Thursday
Soon I found out that in this detention center there was a special day, a date when there were no meetings with lawyers, relatives and there were virtually no investigatory proceedings. Twenty-four hours were devoted to one thing only — a visit to a bath. Indeed, Thursday was a long-awaited holiday, not less important than Sunday for Christians or Saturday for the Jews.
From the very morning there started the process of taking prisoners out, cell by cell. This was accompanied by endless shouts of the security corridor guards: “Should the first go? The first goes! Receive! Halt! Wait! Go!” and clicks of fingers. At a certain moment there was a bang of keys on our door and the corridor guard said: “Five minutes to get ready for the bath!” Having heard the joyful signal, meaning th
