““But in that grim world where everyone gnawed up whomever he could, where a human's life and conscience were bought for a ration of soggy bread - in that world who and where were the politicals, bearers of the honor and the torch of all the prison populations of history? We have already traced how the original "politicals" were divided, stifled, and exterminated. And in their place? Well - what did take their place? Since then we have had no politicals. And we could not possibly have any. What kind of "politicals" could we have if universal justice had been established? Once upon a time in the Tsarist prisons we put to good use the special privileges of the politicals, and, as a result, came to realize all the more clearly that had to be abolished. They simply . . . abolished the politicals. There are none, and there won't be any.””
