19/ "They will leave you alone only when you turn into a sissy [i.e. are raped and become untouchable, other than for further sexual abuse] or decide to commit suicide. Vagrants, thieves, A.U.E. [youth gang members] are taken to Omsk to simply break them. As they say, if you are 'sharpened' [come to the attention of the authorities], then they will send you to Omsk to the meat grinder."
20/ According to prisoner rights campaigner Olga Romanova, prisoners who have served time in Omsk say that "the entire system in Omsk is aimed specifically at restructuring the human psyche. This is not re-education, but the destruction of human dignity."