Danzig Baldaev born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, in east-central Russia, Baldaev was the son of an ethnographer who was arrested as an "enemy of the people". He grew up in an orphanage for the children of "enemies" and following his service in the second world war was "forced", as he described it, by the NKVD (a forerunner of the KGB) to work as a warder at Kresty prison in Leningrad, now St Petersburg. His employment in the Soviet penal system took him all over the USSR, but in private, he poured the psychological detritus of his profession into a terrifying work of sadistic pornography, which he dedicated, in 1988, to Alexander Solzhenitsyn. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/17/drawings-gulag-danzig-baldaev-review http://www.amazon.com/Danzig-Baldaev-Drawings-Damon-Murray/dp/0956356249 From "Gulag" (1999)