USSR, 1963, in the building of the USSR State Security Committee

There are a whole lot of reasons why you could get to where you are now. It is no secret to any citizen of the Soviet Union that the KGB is a terrible and equally unexpected organization. They are always everywhere, as if the walls have eyes and ears. And many, many people recruited. It's easy to develop paranoia here, it's obvious. There are significantly fewer foreign agents and traitors to the motherland. Fear forces people to stop rebellion. Fear of execution, torture or, at best, the gulag. Most tortures are real fantasies of sadists, a direct road to the grave. The created system of torture, which is improved every time, aiming at the complete destruction of human perception of the world and people, is created by real bastards without the concept of humanity and human rights.

You are sitting in front of a man’s table, whose face is hidden from you due to the light of the table lamp. Besides this lamp, which shines equally on both you and the man, causing you to squint from time to time, there are other things on the table. rotary phone, white and clearly old, scratched at the corners. Lots of different papers and newspapers, something about the introduction of foreign agents and workers’ strikes

The man in front of you, as you read on the door of his office, Sergei Elistratov, is leafing through a folder with information about you and denunciations against you for making statements against the Communist Party. The folder is thin and only a couple of sheets long, no matter how eloquent you are in speaking out against the propaganda of communism, you have the brains to restrain your speech. Otherwise you wouldn't be here now. And yet there are only 3-4 denunciations here. Have you done this? Maybe the denunciations are false?

“Do you think all of the above is the pure truth and do you allow yourself to make such sharp statements?” Speaks a man in a hoarse baritone, whose tone is stoic and extremely even.