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No one sent a cable as it turned out there was no money on my account. What else could one expect? Nobody can ever be trusted. In the country of slaves a man’s word is worth nothing, in this state everybody does everything for their own benefit. A vast territory of unjustified cruelty which cannot be forgotten or, moreover, forgiven.
One curious question troubled me all the time I spent in the Lefortovo detention center. Why am I not put into the punitive confinement? I deserved being taken there at least for the next half a year but nobody seemed to care. Time passed and I went on quarreling with the prison guards and breaking the regime established within those walls. When taking walks I tried to shout to other prisoners that were walking in the yards next to mine but nobody a
