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...special group in the camps are the Veruyushchie (believers), prisoners who refuse to work for the state on the grounds of conscience. Among them are the monashki, devoted religious women who normally might have been nuns. Dr. Joseph Scholmer, a German M.D. who spent 3½ years in the camp, attended a religious service in one of the mine pits worked by Lithuanians: "We walked down passages that were full of people and eventually came to a disused gallery which ended in a little crypt. About 20 men had collected there. All were standing in silence: they were sunk...
...Vagrants. Strangest of all the groups in the camps are the blatnye, the criminals, who take the best bunks, get the best food. "They belonged," wrote Dr. Scholmer, "to a tightly knit organization with rigid laws of its own which is to be found in every camp in Vorkuta. The organization is made up to a large extent of former besprizornye, the vagrant children who have been characteristic of the Soviet Union. I never once saw one so much as lay hands on a shovel. His companions would murder him if he did. The camp authorities put them officially into...
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