“The foreman matters more than anything else in a prison camp: a new one gives you a new lease of life, a bad one can land you six feet under. Shukov had known Andrei Profofyevich Tyurin back in Ust-Izhma. He hadn’t worked under him there, but when all the “traitors” had been shunted from the ordinary penal camp to hard labor, Tyurin had singled him out. Shukov had no dealings with the camp commander, the Production Planning Section, the site managers, or the engineers: his foreman was always there standing up for him: a chest of steel, Tyurin had. But if he twitched an eyebrow or lifted a finger-you ran and did whatever he wanted. Cheat anyone you liked as long as you didn’t cheat Tyurin, and you’d get by.”
“One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1962.
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