Nina

 Nina

There was another story in the Gulag Archipelago from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that described a girl that was taken to gulag after her father was taken to gulag. We learn that the girl's father was envied and the Soviet Bolsheviks went into the house to take the individual to gulag. Nina (another Nina not the one from Bazbei and Zhenya's story) wrote a humorous poem in school about how the socialist nazis had bombed specific areas of Soviet Russia including a church.

Nina had humorously written in a piece of paper that she wished that instead of bombing the church, that her school was destroyed instead because they were tired of Soviet studies (this was with humor and no negative intention being that they were being attacked by the nazi socialists). Nina went to retrieve the piece of paper that she had hidden knowing that the Soviet Bolshevik socialists would accuse her based on the humorous rhyme. Nina went to find the piece of paper and while attempting to rip it apart, the Bolsheviks took the paper and asked her questions. Nina was taken to gulag and given five years.

We learn that Nina had done nothing wrong and was envied for being the daughter of an individual who was also envied. We learn that in the Soviet Union, individuals did not have freedom to speak truth because the envious Soviet Bolshevik socialists did not want individuals to improve upon themselves. This was the main reason why Christianity was hated and envied by Soviet socialists. We learn that socialists did not take constructive criticism very positively and instead criticized negatively without motive or reason.

We learn that Nina wrote a humorous rhyme or joke in response to the difficulties that were happening. We learn that any criticism of the Soviet Bolshevik system resulted in envy and censorship. The Soviet Bolshevik socialists did not want individuals to speak truth or criticize the socialist Soviet system. We learned about Boris Vinogradov who was an engineer that did not flee when the Soviet bureaucrats fled to safer cities, and for saying that the bureaucrats had fled, the Soviet Bolshevik bureaucrats falsely accused Boris of sedition.