About the book: 2009 / The stories of the second edition of the collection, as well as the first volume of the trilogy “Ice Breaker” prepared for publication, are united by one central character and chronologically continue the story of his life , this time - in prison and concentration camps, where he was thrown by the will of the slave-owning socialist regime. The author truthfully and frankly, without varnishing or tinting reality with thieves' romance, talks about the difficult, sometimes painful, almost unbearable conditions of existence in captivity, about the struggle for survival and return, as he thought, to a normal free life, about the importance of preserving positive human qualities within oneself. qualities, essentially - about character education. The second volume of stories continues the theme of the previous one - about the author’s wanderings in Soviet concentration camps, about the formation and maturation of his character, about the dangers and difficulties of forced existence and the character’s resistance to the forces of evil and injustice, about his desire to regain freedom . The author truthfully talks about the life and customs of the criminal environment and those who condone it, by whose will or coincidence, or even innocently, people end up in prison, and also talks about those who resist the arbitrariness of power.