My interrogator was an educated man, he’d graduated from the same university as me. It turned out that we even liked the same books: Akunin, Umberto Eco…‘Why,’ he said, ‘did you have to become one of my problems? I’m used to dealing with corrupt officials. It’s nice! You know exactly where you stand with them. But you guys…’ He was doing his job reluctantly, he was ashamed, but still, it didn’t stop him. There are thousands of people like him—officials, detectives, judges. Some do the beating, others spread lies in the press. Others arrest people, pass sentences. You need so little to start up
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