Grossman's EVERYTHING FLOWS: camps for women?

[Marina Brodskaya]

Thanks all. I'll call to see if the Oaxacan Kitchen can let us in 15  
min early on the 31.

Please forgive the misspellings. Sent from my iPhone.

May 20, 2009, в 10:36 PM, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM>  
написал(а):

> Dear all,
>
> Grossman is, for the main part uncommonly level-headed.  But there  
> is one
> part of his chapter about women in the GULAG where his tone seems
> hysterical:
>
> “ Between the camps for male and female common criminals there alway 
> s lay a
> strip of bare earth, known as the ‘shooting zone’.  [...]
>  In some strict-regime camps the women had not seen a man’s face or  
> heard a
> man’s voice for many years.  There were occasions when carpenters,
> metalworkers and drivers were sent into these sinister places – and  
> torn
> apart, tortured to death.  Even the male criminals were terrified of  
> these
> camps – camps where it was considered a joy merely to touch the shou 
> lder of
> a dead man with one hand.  The criminals were scared to go there  
> even under
> armed guard.”
>
>  “ ...Между  уголовным  женским  и  уголовным  мужским лагерем лежала
> полоса
> пустынной  земли  -  ее называли огнестрельной зоной, [...]
>   Когда  в зловещие, режимные лагеря к женщинам, долгими годами не в 
> идевшим
> лица  мужчин,  не слышавшим  мужского  голоса,  попадали по наряду с 
> лесаря,
> плотники,  их  терзали,  умучивали,  убивали  до  смерти. Мужчины-уг 
> оловники
> боялись  этих лагерей, где счастьем считалось коснуться рукой плеча  
> мертвого
> мужика, боялись идти туда и под охраной огнестрельного оружия.
>   Угрюмая, темная беда коверкала каторжных людей, превращала их в не 
> людей.”
>
> WERE THERE REALLY STRICT-REGIME CAMPS WHERE MEN NEVER SET FOOT?  I  
> HAVE NOT
> SEEN THEM MENTIONED ELSEWHERE.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Robert
>
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