Moscow – Spain – Kolyma: From the life of a radio operator and a prisoner

The author of these memoirs, Lev Lazarevich Hurges (1910, Moscow – 1988, Grozny), was a man of his time: a tech, a romantic, an obedient servant of the revolution. At the age of 14, he was struck by the first and all -consuming, for life, “love” – ​​a passion for Radiodel, love, which eventually passed into “legal marriage”, becoming a profession. This love took him far – at first, in 1936, to Spain, where he, a radio operator, bravely fought on the side of the Republicans, and already in 1937 – to the Gulag. He dismissed the lion’s share of his 8-year period on Kolyma. Between the romanticism of Spain and the socialist realism of Kolyma are thousands of connecting threads: mutual surveillance, mutual fear of informing, mutual betrayal, the entire total inhuman Soviet society. Read these memories is interesting and easy: in them the story, and people, and the courageous struggle for the survival and dignity of a person in inhuman conditions, and the mischievous brilliance in forever youthful and in love eyes.

Publisher
Time, 2012
Series
Dialogue