A Knock in the Night

The year is 1937. There are mass arrests in the Soviet Union. People live in fear, every night expecting to be carted away...

One night there is a loud knock at the door of a certain house.

The tenants cower in silence, afraid to answer it. The knocking continues, getting louder and louder.

The tenants go on pretending to be asleep. Finally someone begins to break the door down.

At this, one tenant thinks to himself: Tm an old man, I've got to die soon anyway.

What am I afraid of?

I'll open up to them.' He gets out of bed and goes to the door. A minute later he rushes back shouting for joy.

'Comrades, comrades, get up! It's only a fire . . .'

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