About the book: 1975 / ...Another testimony. Without pretensions, direct, sometimes naive, but it is the innocence and directness of presentation that gives it the strength of a genuine human document. A talented ballerina, actress, and then, during the war years, a translator at the American Embassy in Moscow, Lyubov Bershadskaya spent ten years in Soviet concentration camps and prisons, after which she was rehabilitated “for lack of corpus delicti.” She experienced a lot during this time and saw a lot - including, for example, the strike in the Dzhezkazgan camps, when (after the death of Stalin and the fall of Beria) the same practice of mass extermination of innocent people continued, and prisoners were shot and crushed by tanks in zone. Eyewitnesses who visited this camp zone many years later say that the soil of Dzhezkazgan, twenty centimeters deep, was soaked in the blood of men and women crushed by tanks... Lyubov Bershadskaya was very far from any politics. She was forcibly turned into a political figure: she became one of the leaders of the camp rebellion, a courageous participant in the resistance, and, finally, the author of a book in which she ingenuously and modestly talks about what she turned out to be a living (and accidentally surviving) witness. The modesty of her story is especially impressive. A quiet, confidential voice, almost a whisper, is often better heard by people than a loud, pathetic declamation.