The man on duty today was one of the good ones . . . They don’t accept tinned food in the Butyrka . . . You really must bring onion and garlic, they’re good for scurvy . . . There was a man here last Wednesday who’d come to pick up his documents, he’d been three years in the Butyrka without once being interrogated and had then been released . . . Usually people are sent to a camp about a year after they’ve been arrested . . . You mustn’t bring anything too good – at the transit prison in Krasnaya Presnaya the ‘politicals’ are put together with the common criminals and everything gets stolen .
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