Originally, Manturov thought that Dubov would take him to the best restaurant for lunch. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 But when he was at the train station, Dubov saw that Manturov was so close to the people, and he actually took the ordinary train frequency, and suddenly changed his mind and changed the lunch place to the cadre canteen.

In fact, Manturov also knew that Dubov was playing tricks. He had a friend who worked at the best restaurant in the area, and just a few days ago he had learned that Dubov had reserved a place in that restaurant and told the restaurant staff about Manturov's visit.

"Comrade Manturov, how is our canteen? You alright. ”

Manturov lifted Erlang's legs, put down his glasses, scanned the surroundings, and then put on the shelf of the secretary of the state party committee and said, "Yes, but I came as if I didn't come." ”

"Why?"

"The food, as well as the environment, is similar to the cadre canteen in the Centranny district (central district) of Novosibirsk. Can't find the feeling of Tomsk. ”

"Oh, that's it. This is how the canteens of the whole Soviet Union look, and the food they eat is similar. Otherwise, in the evening, I will take you to the Tomsk Hostel, which is the hotel where you will stay tonight, where the restaurant is well cooked. ”

"Then let's try it tonight."

After the meal, Manturov, under Dubov's guidance, inspected the work of the local party organization and went to inspect the newly established state oil company.

Why is it okay? Because the inspected sites were ready for inspection, when Manturov arrived, the people always pretended to be serious about their work, and quoted Stalin's words in front of him, as well as the good quotes published in Pravda.

Actually, this is the problem, and it is the common denominator of most of the new bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.

On average, they have received only seven years of education, and are seldom able to think independently about politics, only borrowing from the speeches of party leaders in the press, parroting their rhetoric and repeating their propaganda slogans and political jargon.

Their actual understanding of Marxism-Leninism is very shallow, and they rely entirely on the remarks of the official media, but they have not seriously studied the ideas of Marx and Lenin, nor have they seriously studied the remarks and writings of Marx and Lenin.

They only know how to carry out the orders of their superiors and blindly praise their superiors in order to promote their careers. They seldom bring up the mistakes of their superiors, firstly, to please their superiors, and secondly, they may think that what their superiors say is right, and their brains will automatically adjust until their thoughts are consistent with their superiors.

In Manturov's opinion, these people are no different from machines.

On the other side, Suyev and Maria, accompanied by Yakov, came to the Tomskgula camp.

Tomsk has been a "place of exile" since the days of the tsars, and by the time of the Soviet Union, although Tomsk had developed into an industrial city, its status as a "place of exile" remained unchanged.

As soon as the purge began, a number of Gula battalions were set up near Tomsk to continue to house prisoners. These prisoners are subjected to long hours of physical labor, as well as inadequate food supplies, lack of warm clothing, overcrowding, and lack of medical care.

Many people died because they did not get enough nutrition due to overwork, and some were beaten to death by prison guards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Most of the female prisoners in the Gula camp had to face the fate of being forced by male prisoners or Internal Guard officers, and some female prisoners took the initiative to provide entertainment to Internal Guard officers or even "senior prisoners" in order to obtain privileges.

Wait! Prisoners are also divided into high and low ranks?

That's right, in the system of Gula Battalion, prisoners are also divided into ranks. In addition to the ordinary prisoners, there were two types of high-ranking prisoners in the Gula camp.

The first type is those prisoners who work hard, are productive, and make outstanding contributions. They are rewarded by the re-education through labor department, receive "vouchers" issued by the department, and enjoy some privileges due to their relatively superior living conditions.

The other is the specialists who were imprisoned in the Gula camp. Some of them are engineers, some are geologists. They use their expertise to plan and even direct the work of other prisoners, taking on the role of leader. There are also some who are doctors.

They were given good food and lodging, and their working conditions were good, similar to before their arrest. They don't need to do physically demanding work, and they don't have too much mental work. At the same time, I want to have a lot of privileges.

In addition to this, these professionals are able to bring their families in and lead a normal family life. Of course, innocent family members do not need to engage in manual labor.

These high-ranking prisoners, who generally have a good relationship with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, act as collaborators, supervisors, and some even act as commanders to direct the prisoners' work.

Some prisoners, after being released, even continued to work for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There was an accountant named Pavel Drozdov, a former prisoner of the Gula camp, and was even promoted to lieutenant general in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. (Real Case)

Of course, this is only an extreme example. Ordinary specialist prisoners, such as Dalia Suevna, Suyev's wife and Maria's mother, were also just ordinary professionals, silently serving the Soviets in the camp.

As a doctor, she spends her days in the clinic seeing prisoners, moving between the clinic, the dormitory, and the canteen.

She is quite good-looking, and even at the age of 44, she still has not "evolved" into an aunt like other Russian women, and still retains a slender figure and delicate facial features. This is probably due to the lack of food supply in the Gula camp and the long hours of labor.

Although she was a female prisoner and was quite good-looking, the lucky Daria was never harassed by the internal guards and male prisoners. This is because the deputy commander of the Gula battalion has a relatively deep friendship with Suyev, and uses his authority to act as Daria's umbrella and does not let her be harassed at all.

But on the other side, he didn't let Dalia write letters to the outside, and he didn't let her receive any letters. Because he didn't want Daria to know the news that Suyev was also imprisoned, and he didn't want her to know about his daughter's rough situation, and at the same time, it was also to cooperate with the commander's secrecy policy to ensure that no one would leak the hardships in the camp.

Maria and Suev, led by Yakov, trembled to the gates of the Gula camp. Looking at the fierce police dog in front of the door and listening to the screams coming from inside, Maria felt creepy, and it also reminded Suev of the horrors in the Gula camp.

Yakov had a different feeling, he wore the uniform of a colonel of the Internal Guard, raised his head and chest, boldly walked to the door, and said to the officer of the Internal Guard: "Comrade, I am Yakov, the new head of the Tomsk City Bureau, and I am coming to release a prisoner. ”

"Comrade Director, can you hand me the certificate?"

Comrade Yakov took out the documents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and handed them to the guards. When the guard saw this, he immediately stood up and gave a neat military salute, and then said: "Comrade Yakov, which prisoner do you want to release?" ”

Yakov waved at Maria and Suev and motioned for them to come. "Comrade Suyev, what is the name of your wife?"

Suev walked up to the guard and said, "Her name is Daria Suyevna. ”

"Comrade Suevna? She's still seeing people in the clinic. He had previously signed a contract with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and volunteered to stay in the camp to work. ”

"Voluntarily stay?" Suyev was surprised by his wife's decision, why did she stay and work in this place? Aren't you afraid of being walled between them?

"I didn't listen, did I? Dalia She ...... Do you really want to stay voluntarily? ”

"That's right, I don't believe you went in and went to her."

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