The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung wrote : “He who has achieved a perception of reality is inevitably solitary” [This is a translation of the Russian version of Jung’s essay “The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man”. The standard English version reads somewhat differently: “The man whom we can with justice call ‘modern’ is solitary”–Trans.].  

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I first read these lines sitting in jail as a political prisoner of the Russian state.  In the gulag reality is somehow quickly perceived, literally with the skin. And also – by the state of health. I did not meet people who after jail would remain healthy for a more or less long-lasting period. My jail term ended with a cancerous tumor of the kidney. Luckily, German doctors removed it in time, and for now I survive.

But I well remember those conditions in which this and other aches and pains were acquired. And the fact that such incidents take place daily in Russian jails makes it impossible to forget.  It’s a shame that these incidences do not often become public knowledge nor rouse such interest in society as did the incident with the lawyer Sergey Magnitsky.