Many of the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik leaders who were deported to Siberia by the Tsarist police, often managed to escape, even more than once, from their prisons. Sign that the surveillance was not so close. And 'anyone ever managed to escape from the Soviet gulag? The only episode that comes to mind is this, as told by Evfrosinija Kersnovskaja in his book 'How much is a man'. Two deportees fled, taking with him, with the allurements, a chubby fellow who still want to eat to survive. The ferocity of this inhuman act I think that it can represent well the hellish conditions of the gulag.
The deportation at the time of the czars was not anywhere near as fierce as the Soviet prison camps. Here the prisoners were working in inhumane conditions until they are exhausted and death. Dostoevsky, as told in 'Memoirs of a House of the Dead' her experience of exile from 1849 to 1853, writes that prisoners, in addition to forced labor, all had a personal work, without which they could not survive. The personal work was not prohibited in prison, but the tools were strictly prohibited. However, close one eye. "Frequently, prisoners who did not know any profession, but were not slow to learn from someone mates, so that his sentence, came out of good craftsmen. There were shoemakers, tailors, carpenters, blacksmiths, engravers and decorators. "
Solženicyin Alexander wrote that Bolshevism has changed the character of the Russian people, destroying its natural goodness and piety of heart. The French writer Xavier de Maistre ( 1763-1852), who spent many years in Russia, where he became even army general, told in the novel 'The young Siberian' a true story. A girl of fifteen, Prascovia Lopulov, always lived with their parents into exile, for affection branch supported by a great faith, he left to go from Siberia to St. Petersburg to talk with the Tsar and secure the release of his father. The trip lasted a few years. Only the kindness of the people I met allowed the girl to get to Petersburg, where she, 'the ease of innocence', he managed to come up to the emperor.
When parents, after having secured the release, they met for the first time his daughter, 'fell on his knees before her'. What is left of the popular piety? Would it be possible to imagine a trip like that in Soviet Russia? Even Dostoevsky points out that, among the various sources of income in prison (smuggling, jobs tailor, barber, of a violin player, etc..), There was alms. "The privileged classes have absolutely no idea of \u200b\u200bwhat care prodighino merchants, the petty bourgeoisie and the entire populace to unfortunate [so people were called by the convicts]."
Fülöp-Miller, although it has not yet seen the worst of the thirties, already can be said that 'justice' Bolshevik is far worse than the Tsarist. "As the judicial procedure was inadequate under the old regime, there was still a procedure with the taking of evidence, indictment, witness interviews and speeches of defense officials Bolsheviks but were exempted from all these formalities, establish a kingdom of arbitrariness which the world had not seen for centuries. So the new boss of Russia, 'mass-man', came to bring freedom to the land, he learned quickly to use the media and the arts of tyranny better than the cruelest among the Tsar. "
Fülöp-Miller, although it has not yet seen the worst of the thirties, already can be said that 'justice' Bolshevik is far worse than the Tsarist. "As the judicial procedure was inadequate under the old regime, there was still a procedure with the taking of evidence, indictment, witness interviews and speeches of defense officials Bolsheviks but were exempted from all these formalities, establish a kingdom of arbitrariness which the world had not seen for centuries. So the new boss of Russia, 'mass-man', came to bring freedom to the land, he learned quickly to use the media and the arts of tyranny better than the cruelest among the Tsar. "
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