thierry-facon:Tokyo« Elena Melodze, a Georgian, was another “member of the family”: her husband had
thierry-facon:Tokyo« Elena Melodze, a Georgian, was another “member of the family”: her husband had been executed. Deeply disturbed by his arrest, she naïvely thought that he must have been guilty of something, and only calmed down when she herself ended up in prison. It all became clear, logical and simple: there were tens of thousands in her position. » ( Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories ) -- source link