BEg2 chapter 13 Misha and Grisha

[Michael Bailey]

...prefer to be called Deimos and Phobos, one of them says.

stainless-steel jailhouse choppers - was hoping to find a bunch of images
but it's rather slim pickings other than Richard Kiel and Konstantin
Rokossovsky, who's more of a WWII person.


However, there is a recent quote from Viktor Navalny -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/26/alexei-navalny-russia-prison-state-tv-china-labour-camp-psychological-violence

“You might imagine tattooed muscle men with steel teeth carrying on with
knife fights to take the best cot by the window,” Navalny was quoted as
saying. “You need to imagine something like a Chinese labor camp, where
everybody marches in a line and where video cameras are hung everywhere.
There is constant control and a culture of snitching.”

He said guards monitored them as they watched hours of state propaganda,
not allowing them to read or write, and waking inmates up if they fell
asleep.

But Navalny remained upbeat about the future of the regime of Vladimir Putin
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin>, insisting that one day
it would end.



Igor contextualizes them, after a fashion. "Just out of zona, distant
relatives, now not so distant. Brighton Beach, it's heaven for them. I
bring them over to Manhattan so they can have look [again, article-free] at
hell."

zona - Russian jail

Brighton Beach - has changed since Brighton Beach Memoirs.