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* [[Bad Boss]]: too many Gulag camp managers to count. In many cases they were responsible to no one and had total control over the ''zek''s' lives, with predictable results.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: ...but there were a few, very few, managers and guards who kept their human decency.
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* [[Holier Than Thou|More Communist Than Thou]]: many of the Communist prisoners being purged still think themselves loyal to Stalin's regime, convinced that it was all a mistake that they were arrested, whereas everybody around them are of course scum and deserve every moment of their sentence. Solzhenitsyn distinguishes between them and the true socialists who carried their beliefs in their hearts and not on their sleeves--and were arrested because of it.
* [[The Informant]]: ''stoolies'', as they were called, were universally despised by prisoners and the security services alike. In many cases they didn't have a choice when they were recruited; Solzhenitsyn himself was forced to become an informant. He considered himself very fortunate to have been transferred out to a ''sharashka'' before internal security could really pressure him into snitching on overheard conversations.
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