«... you, Pavel Vasilyevich, is wrong. Three times wrong. First, as a foreman: you «called the situation» without checking faces. Otherwise you would see this woman working there. And you did not call a powder man to the face and lost a cycle. You are wrong as a man: you insulted an honest daughter of toil by word. And finally, you are wrong as a miner: a miner should be, above all, a good friend. Even though you and I are civilian, under the ground we have one destiny, in the teeth of death we are all equal.»
I should admit that the words of the mine chief NKVD Major Kovalenko bought me, the concept of the underground equality made me fall in love with the place where I did not feel humiliated even though in the teeth of death. The faith in that myth had lived in my mind for 13 years until it was shattered by KGB Colonel Koshkin.