Word: kolyma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story's narrator purports to be a ditchdigger in the Kolyma River forced-labor camp, which has been almost empty since a recent amnesty-"only some 10,000 of us, dangerous criminals, were left." With bitter irony, he professes to have flushed the torn-up manuscript of his book down the toilet. It was recovered and pieced together only through the diligence and ingenuity of Tolya and Vitya, two secret policemen, members of "the dread invisible army," who have invented a special sewer-searching technique for screening the citizenry's most private acts...
...figure. Mad with rage when his wife brutally tells him of this, Globov smashes everything in their apartment-only one birthday present, a bust of "The One." "The Master" (i.e., Stalin), being miraculously preserved. In revenge, Globov sends a doctor he suspects of having performed the abortion to the Kolyma River forced-labor camp. Actually, in a satirical parallel to the "Doctors' Plot," Rabinovich is innocent...