“The Dignity of Learning And they’ll ask: what helped us live, without letters or news—just walls and coldness in the cell, stupidity of official lies, nauseating promises for betrayal. And I’ll tell about the first beauty which I saw in this captivity: window in the frost! No spy holes, nor walls, nor grating—no long suffering— only bluish light in the smallest glass. —IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA, “I’ll live through this … ,” TRANS. F. P. BRENT AND C. J. EVANS”