“...your name will remain forever in the memory of people. However, it will not be a good memory. Your name will become a household name in all languages, and it will only cause bad associations in humans.”
After the war, he didn’t get authorization to return to his native Crimea. He tried to find his family but could not. Later he learned that his wife and five-year-old son had perished on the road, from bloody flux, while departing for Kazakhstan along with the entire Crimean Tatar nation.
Industrial schools in the Soviet Union were specialized schools for teaching blue-collar workers certain skills so they could be a blacksmith, a turner, a milling machine operator, an electrician, and other similar types of workers.
I don’t know if the investigator understood that I had learned a good deal about Schweik, the famous character of the Czech writer Gashek. I didn’t care if he understood or not, but my mother scolded me when she learned that I had pretended to be a fool in front of the investigator.