It is difficult for a human being even to imagine such terror, tyranny, violence, and lawlessness. When we went there, we could not conceive of such a horror, and now we, crippled ourselves, together with several thousands who are still there, appeal to the ruling center of the Soviet state to curb the terror that reigns there. Now because of their past, for whose crime they have already paid, they are fired from their jobs. They line us up naked and barefoot at 22 degrees below zero and keep us outside for up to an hour. It is difficult to describe all the chaos and terror that is going on in Kemi, Solovky, and the other sections of the concentrations camp.
All annual inspections uncover a lot of abuses.
But what they discover in comparison to what actually exists is only a part of the horror and abuse of power, which the inspection accidently uncovers. We repeat, and will repeat 100 times, that yes, indeed there are some guilty people, but the majority suffer innocently, as is described above. The letter is written in very poor Russian. For the sake of clarity, the translator corrected the grammar and substituted a few words. He was educated in Odessa and in Mykolayiv and was a star pupil with enormous intellectual capabilities.