BEg2 chapter 13 Misha and Grisha

[Neal Fultz]

Whenever I read the word 'zona' I think of Tarkovsky’s Stalker. I wonder if
this usage is part of russian prison slang?

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 8:31 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...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.
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