Are you afraid of being hit by a train? Seemed to be a quick death ... and got a better answer

Answer from Lisa AliSа [guru]
You know ... I saw it ... before my eyes ... it still stands before my eyes ... It's ... SCARY ...

Answer from Miss Justice[guru]
At one thought. ... that cuts me - it gets sick.
I still love life))

Answer from Cat Baiyun[guru]
She's not always fast, depending on what she cuts. But it cuts off instantly. I'm not afraid of death, whatever it may be)

Answer from Alex erokhin[guru]
Well, well, quick death ... And what if your legs are cut off with the wheels and you will be wallowing? And the driver, suspecting nothing, will continue on his way. I saw such a picture on the news, but only the peasant was taken out of there, and with all this he also smoked Prima cigarettes =)

Answer from Mmmmmm ... yeah[newbie]
No I'm not afraid. It's just too early to die.

Answer from ?”*° .?. °*”? [guru]
prepared a presentation and read by OWN on safety precautions,
very long and insinuatingly, I hope that I have reached CONSCIOUSNESS

Answer from Aameya Akamatsu[guru]
as a child, we went from show-offs under the trains,
well across the sleepers, not the rails,
it was creepy, a roar from everywhere and shakes from all sides,
in general, I won't call death from a train easy

Answer from Ђatiana Vorobyova[guru]
Why think about it, let alone be afraid. A person KNOWS that it is dangerous to cross the railway CAREFULLY. And that's enough if you follow the safety rules. Sitting constantly in fear, a person prepares for himself a not joyful future, because with his mental images he launches the mechanism of embodiment into reality.

Answer from Evgeniya[guru]
well, if posthumously, then I'm not afraid ...
but still this is not the best way to commit suicide
an acquaintance said that it is difficult to control yourself when a train rushes at you and the driver still gives a signal like get out of the way ...

Answer from Zigzag[guru]
Nope, I'm not afraid ... but from an airplane without a parachute it's cooler))

Answer from Yovetlana Pukhova[guru]
yes, I'm afraid ... depending on how you fall under it .... if "successful", then fast .... if not ... feel the whole range of sensations

Answer from Barbarizzz[guru]
I'm afraid to discuss it.

Answer from Masks, masks, masquerade[guru]
why think? wanted to jump from the 3rd floor, they said - go up to the 12th floor, so that for sure

Answer from Bird[guru]
And a friend's leg was cut off. So the train is not a guarantee of "quick death".

Answer from Olga ******[guru]
Just imagine for a second how you will look, well ... not.

Answer from ~? i? Rim? ~[guru]
Well, I'm not Anna Karenina ...
but she would like to deserve a quick death, but not under the train.
I would not want to live beautiful, but die crippled.
besides, it's too early for me to die - I haven't earned it yet.

Answer from Klepa[guru]
Firstly, not the fact that it is fast.
Secondly, although I am a supporter of cremation, but theoretically I would like to go to cremation as a whole, and not piece by piece ...
More aesthetic or something ...)))
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An extremely unpleasant story happened on the train from Moscow to Volgograd on August 1. According to media reports, an elderly man died in a reserved seat carriage, who became ill due to the stuffiness. According to eyewitnesses, neither the head of the train, nor the conductors provided assistance to him. Moreover, when the man died, his body was left among the rest of the passengers.

The tragedy happened at about six in the morning. The man began to choke, tried to get up and fell. Train passengers tried to help the victim. The author of the video tried to find guides, but found the first only after seven cars. An employee of the train crew sent the woman back and promised to come. However, he was gone for about 15 minutes.

The woman said that when the heart was massaged, the man wheezed. In her opinion, the victim could still be saved. When the man died, neither the conductors nor the head of the train reported his death through their communication channels. The body was simply left in the aisle. The video shows that the passengers themselves put it on the shelf.

"360" tried to figure out if there are any job descriptions for personnel serving passenger trains. What should they do in an emergency, and what the risk of violation of the regulations. It turned out that there are clear instructions in this regard. And now the conductors and the head of the train will most likely say goodbye to work at Russian Railways forever.

Trouble, but you smile

The conductor of the Nevsky Express train, Svetlana Matyushina, who once rescued people during a crash, spoke about instructions for conductors during emergency situations. If a person becomes ill, the train staff must provide him with first aid and notify the head of the train about what is happening.

“Depending on what happened - fracture, dislocation, fever. We help, we give all the pills, ”explained Matyushina.

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The conductor said that she had to deal with a sad situation - the death of a passenger on the train.

“Grandma felt bad. She fell and did not wake up, ”she recalled.

In such situations, according to Matyushina, the first compartment or compartment of the conductors is vacated. The body is transferred there. The incident is immediately reported to the head of the train, and at the nearest station the police and an ambulance drive up to the train.

“We won't let any of the passengers. You can't even say that something happened in the car. So that other passengers did not know this, and drove on. Trouble is trouble. But you smile at them and also communicate with them, ”said Matyushina.

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In such situations, even the type of train is not important - whether it is high-speed or ordinary, the conductor explained. Even if the stop is not scheduled, any convoy stops at the nearest station to hand over the body to the police and ambulance doctors. All documents are drawn up there.

“We have no right to carry not only the body for a very long time and far. Even if a living person feels bad, it will be a sick person, an elderly person, a child - we go only to the first station. There is a stop, no, but it will be, ”explained Matyushina.

According to the conductor, the conductors and the head of the train will be fired for violating job descriptions.

“Dismissal. I think that they will not even return to the Russian Railways, if it happened so, ”summed up Matyushina.

Just to the nearest station

Lawyer and international lawyer Timur Marshani explained that in this situation, the conductors and the head of the train were simply obliged to act in accordance with the existing instructions. According to them, the body is transported to the nearest station, where a police squad and an ambulance are called.

“In the course of the train it is necessary to convey this information to the police officers. And call an ambulance to the nearest station, ”Marshani said.

Further, the police, with the help of ambulance representatives, must certify the fact of biological death in order to remove a person from the train. After that, the body is evacuated to the nearest morgue in order to establish the causes of the incident.

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“Police officers draw up an act stating the fact of death in a specific place - in this case, we are talking about a compartment of a passenger train. The conductors have specific instructions according to which they had to act, ”the lawyer emphasized.

According to him, if there is no proven fact of leaving in danger, if the lack of action on the part of officials is not the cause of the death of a specific passenger, then the maximum that threatens the conductors and the head of the train is disciplinary liability, followed by a decision on the issue of dismissal from work due to non-compliance job description.

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Death Train

(Notes by American Red Cross Officer Rudolph Buckley)

The notes1 offered to the reader's attention belong to the group of documents that, for various reasons, did not fit into either Soviet or post-Soviet historiography dedicated to the history of the Civil War. A significant part of such notes, diaries, memoirs appeared in the second half of the 1950s in the USSR just on the eve of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Many participants in the events of the Civil War sent their memories to museums and archives. Many were recorded from the words of the participants in the events by pioneers and schoolchildren, local historians and museum workers. It is noteworthy that such a volume of memories of the Civil War sent to museums and archives was not observed, either in the previous or in subsequent years. In the museum named after V.K. Arsenyev has a selection of similar materials. By the way, there are similar collections in many regional museums and archives. However, a significant part of these memoirs was not only not published, but also was not claimed as an unpublished historical source.

The notes of Rudolph Buckley, a Red Cross employee, are remarkable in that they describe the Civil War from someone who was not a supporter or even just sympathizer of one of the warring parties, such as his compatriots: John Silas Reed and Albert Rhys Williams. Rudolph Buckley was just a decent man who tried to the best of his ability, being an employee of the Red Cross, to help those who needed his help. But, as you can see, unlike his happier colleagues2, he was able to help a few.

The published text consists of two parts: the first is actually R. Buckley's notes, and the second is a small covering letter to them.

1 Buckley's notes were previously published, but in extremely limited editions, in regional publishers. For example: Buckley R. Death Train / Death Train. Kuibyshev Kuibyshev book publishing house. 1960 s. 136-148; Rudolph Bukely. The Train of Death. Socialist Party of Los Angeles. (14 pp. Without publication year) .; For a bibliography of the question, see: http: // wap. siberia.forum24.ru/?1-12-0-00000080-000-80-0

2 See, for example: V. Lipovetsky, The Ark of Children, or An Incredible Odyssey. SPb .; Classics ABC, 2005; he is: the Ark of children. Vladivostok. Publishing house Rubezh, 2011.

Notes (PGOM. HB 3096) entered the Museum named after V.K. Arsenyev in 1970. Unfortunately, we have no information

about when, where and by whom the entry was made from the diaries of Rudolph Buckeli and whose translation it is. it is unlikely that R. Bukelley wrote his notes in Russian, although, judging by the notes, he should have known Russian well. It is also unknown who wrote the cover letter to them. Judging by the text, it may have been someone from the American Red Cross staff.

The text is printed without abbreviations (except for the author's abbreviations) in the author's spelling. Only obvious typos have been fixed and the letter ё has been restored.

RUDOLPH BEKELI DEATH TRAIN1

Today is November 18, 1918. I am in Nikolsk-Ussuriisk in Siberia and over the past 2 days I have seen so much grief that it could fill a whole life. I will try to tell now about everything that I saw.

I have read many times about the Black Hole in Calcutta. I was told about Russian prisoners returning from German camps, completely exhausted from hunger strike and tuberculosis. Just a month ago, I preached the doctrine of "hatred." Today I humbly beg forgiveness for my thoughts of hatred and ask from the very depths of my soul that I be allowed to take at least the most modest part in attempts to alleviate the plight of people, regardless of their nationality, so that, at least when ever, the world would form one great brotherhood and so that the things that I saw would become impossible.

I saw corpses lying along the edges of the road, and 50 or 60 people fighting like dogs for the pieces of bread thrown to them by the compassionate poor of Nikolsk.

I am afraid to think what winter means for Siberia and its unfortunate inhabitants, be they arrested Russian peasants or Austrian prisoners of war. The people's parliament will meet this winter, but everyone will be too busy drafting a new "Constitution of Free Russia" - if I may say so! - to take care of such a trifle as human life. What I saw will be repeated throughout Siberia, and thousands, no - tens of thousands of people literally rot to death. I use these expressions with full consciousness, because life is the cheapest thing in Siberia.

Rumor has it that the allies will leave Siberia in a few months and leave Russia to fight for its own salvation. If they do this without taking prisoners of war with them or taking any measures to prevent events like the ones I have seen, then no one else will talk nonsense to me about humanity.

1 So in the doc, right: Buckley

or civilization. These will be empty words. There are 250,000 prisoners in Siberia alone. Where will they be by spring?

This diary will probably not be read by anyone except my dear wife, although the facts contained in it are open to everyone, for acquaintance with them. They may sound hysterical, but every night, before going to bed, I jot down my notes, while I am still under the impression of what I saw and I would like to find a person who saw all this and retained the ability to write rationally.

Last night, on the way home, having walked the entire train with Dr. Rosette, I felt extraordinary weakness. What I saw and heard, I would undoubtedly have seemed a lie if someone had told me about it earlier. Tonight I sit here, writing down all the details in the hope that this can make me easier and I will again be able to reasonably think and honestly work with the American Red Cross in Siberia, to help the unfortunate broken Russia.

This "train of death", as it is now known by this name throughout Eastern Siberia, left Samara about 6 weeks ago. To the west, the employees of the Russian railways are no further than Manchuria station, about 1,200 miles to the west, from here, through which the train passed at least 3 weeks ago. Since then, he passed through Hailar, Qi-tsikar, Harbin, Mulim, moving forward and forward, like something damned, through a country where his unfortunate passengers found very little food and even less compassion.

We, of the American Red Cross, were sitting quietly in our barracks in Vladivostok when a telegram arrived, signed by Colonel “the senior of 2,500 officers in the Austro-Hungarian Army. It read:

“We, 2500 officers, among them 800 invalids, prisoners of war in Siberia since 1914, were transported to Berezovka on November 1, 1918 and sent to Vladivostok. Arrived here on November 12th. The Russian commander ordered us to go to the barracks in Ni-kolsk, but the Japanese commander canceled this order. We currently fit in our wagons in an open field. For several years now we have been suffering and fighting hunger, especially after the Russian revolution. We do not have the most necessary food, clothing and money, especially because some of our comrades have not received salaries from the Russian government for several months. In the name of humanity, we ask the Red Cross Society to accept us under their patronage, or to take on the protection of our interests and help us get through this life by giving us a suitable job.

That night, November 16, I gathered the essentials of my belongings, and the next morning one man known as "Shorty" and I went to the Red Cross. While they were discussing the state of affairs, we took 10 people and went to the Swedish consulate, where we got 2,500 woolen shirts each,

us, quilts and coats, hats, quilted pants, gloves and soap. We collected a decent stock of various things, loaded it all with great effort and sent it off. Dr. Menget and Dr. Scud-Det, two of the Commission's chief physicians, were assigned to the train. After an endless journey, we arrived at Nikolsk. We found the Austrian officers to be a "special case." Of course, they were in a rather bad position, but this is only one of the details in this big picture of misfortune.

The Death Train was a different and much more terrible phenomenon. As I said, he left Samara about 2 months ago, under the command of several Russian officers. It housed at that time 2,100 different arrested persons. Apparently, these were those arrested from the civilian population. Some were Bolsheviks, others were released from the Samara prison. Many of them said that they were arrested because they opposed the Bolsheviks at a time when the Bolsheviks were in power, and when, after the fighting, the Czechs and Russians occupied Samara, they simply cleared the entire prison, loaded all those arrested on this train and sent him east.

Between the day and the day before yesterday, when we found this caravan in Nikolsk, 800 of these unfortunates died of hunger, dirt and disease.In Siberia, you meet misfortune and death at every step and, moreover, to such an extent that it is able to touch even the most cruel heart. As far as we can count, there were 1,325 men, women, and children there yesterday, stuffed into these awful wagons. Since last night, 6 have died. Little by little, they will all die if the train moves forward under the same conditions.

I cannot understand the Russians. There are millions of pounds of provisions in Omsk, which cannot be sent anywhere due to the lack of rolling stock. It may be cruel to say, but the thought occurred to me that if it were painless to kill all these people, it would take a dollar for 3, or 10 dollars of cartridges, and, nevertheless, for many weeks this train of 50 carriages traveled , sent from one station to another, and every day more and more corpses were pulled out of it.

Many of these people stayed in the warmer for 5 weeks without changing their clothes. There are 35-40 of them in each 25-foot-by-11 hothouse, the doors of which were only opened to pull out a corpse or some woman who would be better off being a corpse.

There is nothing on this train that resembles sanitary conditions.

viya, and the heaps of filth in which these people lived, defy description. The Russian officer in command of this train gave some unconvincing explanations as to the reasons why these people are being subjected to such terrible hardships and torments. He tried to present it in the most justifying light. Officially, it was assumed that they were fed regularly at various stations, but often for several days no one even gave them bread.

If it were not for the kindness of the peasants, who with tears in their eyes, like men and women, gave them what little they could afford, they would have been completely deprived of any nourishment.

I spoke with a woman, a doctor who works for the Red Cross in the Red Guard. It would work for anyone as well. Highly educated, intelligent woman, 40 years old. She was on the train for many weeks.

I spoke with an 18-year-old girl, charming, sophisticated, intelligent. She used to be a typist and an accountant in the office of the Mayor in Samara. An opposing party came to power, she asked to be kept in the same job, and was really left. Later, the authorities found out about her previous job and she was sentenced to 6 days in prison. She fell into a big trap. She spent many weeks on the train, and if the Red Cross does not come to her aid, she will die on this train. All the clothes she has on her consists of a dirty blouse and a skirt, something like a petticoat and a pair of stockings and shoes. She has no coat - in these fierce winter cold.

I spoke to a man who could not understand the difference between a Red Guard and another soldier. His wife had a falling out with another woman, who apparently wrote a denunciation against her. That night, he was arrested at his home and charged with belonging to the Red Guard. He was in the warming house for 5 weeks. He will die within 48 hours.

I spoke with a man who, returning home from work, stopped to find out the reason for the crowd on the street. The police arrested many of this crowd. . He was among those arrested. He will die now on the train. I spoke with people who fled from the villages when they heard about the approach of the Germans, peasants from the Volga, who were later found in remote villages without the necessary documents.

It is impossible, of course, to prove the correctness of all these stories, but, nevertheless, people die. I saw them die and the next morning their corpses were dragged out of the carriages like rubbish. The living remain indifferent to this, tk. they know that their turn will come soon. Maybe they envy those who have retired.

Dr. Skatser and Dr. Mavjat traveled to Vladivostok last night and they will do their best to bring the case to the appropriate authorities. I sent several telegrams and Mr. I.N. Strong from Beijing, who arrived in Vladivostok less than a day ago, and was immediately sent to help us, told me that they were making every effort to stop

endless red tape that allows human beings to die while the chatter about freedom, justice and humanity is still going on.

If the authorities could see what I saw, they would quickly put an end to this bureaucracy, but our hands are tied by "diplomacy." During this time, we fraternized with the Czech guards, who were already completely tired of this work, Thanks God, we still managed to keep the train here.

I don't know what happened, but for some reason the Russian authorities are behaving differently today. They began to feed the arrested again and promise to wash the wagons and give these unfortunates the opportunity to exercise a little physically, today we sent 130 people to the hospital and in one way or another we are keeping the train here. This is the main thing. He was almost sent back to Samara last night, but he still didn’t go, and I don’t think that the Russians, the commanders of the train, would dare to send him with us, while we are there all the time, we open it ourselves carriages, we talk with the arrested, give them hope for help and take pictures of them every day. We do it all without permission and in the face of this horror we don't care about it.

It is impossible to convey in print the story of these unfortunate women who were imprisoned here in these terrible conditions. they were treated better than men. You all know why. There are 11 women in one of the carriages. Mm sat with them and talked in a mixed jargon of French, Russian and German. A rope hangs inside the carriage with 4 pairs of stockings belonging to the 11 women. The floor is covered with rubbish and dirt. There is nothing to clean it with, no buckets or brooms. They have not taken off their clothes for many weeks. There is a small stove in the middle of the carriage, and chips and coal are lying on the floor. Along the walls of the car there are two rows of bunks, on which the inhabitants of this car sleep at night and sit huddled during the day. If the arrested are ever given food, then these women get it first and their physical condition is much better than the rest of the arrested, because there are only 11 of them in this carriage, in which there would be 35 men, as is the case in other carriages.

Another 2 days passed. Since we arrived here, a kitchen car with a large cauldron has been attached to the train, and the guards assure us that the prisoners received some soup yesterday. One cauldron for 1,325 people and soup poked through a 1 by 11/2 foot window in an old rusty bowl.

Yesterday a Russian officer pulled one of the women out of a carriage. He will return her to the carriage again when the train starts. In this carriage there is also some emaciated creature that was once a man. He was a journalist. His wife is in the same carriage. She has only a few days to live. When the men get up, they fill the entire carriage.

On two rows of boards along the walls of the carriage, the living and the dead sleep. Today at half past nine in the morning, the guards told us that three people died at night and their corpses were carried away. As we walked along the train

one person beckoned us from one carriage and the guards told us that there were dead people in this carriage. We insisted on opening the door and this is what we saw:

Right across the threshold lay the corpse of a boy no older than 18-19 years old. Without a jacket, only in a thin shirt, in such rags that his entire chest and arms were bared; instead of pants - a piece of a bag, without socks and boots.

What torment this boy had to endure in the cruel Siberian cold, until he died of hunger, cold and mud. Yet "diplomacy" prevents us from intervening and helping them. But we are holding the train.

We climbed into the carriage and found 2 more dead, lying on the upper bunk, among the living. Almost everyone in this carriage was emaciated, half-dressed, with sunken eyes. They were tormented by a terrible cough. The seal of death was on them. If help does not come soon, they will all die, we looked into only a few cars, and at one window we saw a little girl of about 11 years old. According to her, her father was mobilized into the Red Guard. Now the father, mother and child are all on this train and all will die here.

Dr. Rosette is one of the best people I have ever known. When I saw how he talked to these unfortunate people and tried to cheer them up, I involuntarily thought about the good shepherd, and how he also helped the crippled, lame and blind.

We left the carriage at 10 o'clock, because we had to take care of the distribution of clothing to the Austrian officers. It is possible that the reason for this is our interference, go, maybe something happened in Vladivostok that I do not know about, but in any case, when we were working at the station, the arrested were released from the train. We ran out of the building and saw a disgusting procession of 45 carts, each of which was loaded with 3-4 prisoners under the protection of a Cossack. We immediately took out a cart, asked our cabby to take a place in the middle of this procession, so that we would be less noticeable and set off with the procession.

After 4 versts we arrived at the barracks of the government hospital. There the arrested were removed from the carts and put on the ground, where they sat trembling. Then the Russian method was applied. About 8 people were selected, they all had their hair cut, gave them a "hot" bath, and then, dressed in thin slippers and something like a bathrobe, they went, dragged themselves, or were taken to another building about 100 yards from this place. there were rusty iron bunks with filthy straw mattresses and similarly filthy pillows. Yet, apparently, these unfortunates will be given a little more comfort here than what they experienced in their previous position. We made our way through the guards and entered the building. The chief of the Cossacks, with whom we became friends, assured us that they would get the quilts. Among these people I saw many who, as I knew, did not have long to live. The terrible thing is that they all look at you with an expression of the deepest sadness, but without bitterness. It seems that the

Denmark destroyed their ability to express anger.

I have been on the train at least 10 times already and I still have never seen any expression on the faces of these unfortunate, exhausted, stupid creatures.

When I went to the hospital last night, where 14 people were lying on the dirtiest straw imaginable, three of them turned their cloudy eyes at me, recognized the shape of the Red Cross, and got down on their unhappy sick knees. One of them, a sixty-year-old man, had a silver crucifix around his neck. They silently sobbed with shaking sobs and spoke in Russian: "God and Jesus Christ bless you and reward you for what you have done for us." We felt quite rewarded for all our work these days, during which I never took a bath, did not shave or undress, because After finishing my notes, I collapsed on the bed and fell asleep.

Today is November 22nd. In the morning we got up at 7 o'clock and went to the hospital, where we were to meet with Dr. Seleznev, the military commander of the hospital. When we got there, everything was in a terrible state - for more than 300 patients, only 3 doctors and

3 nurses. Two of the patients died during the night, and the doctor determined that almost all of them suffered from various illnesses, including two cases of typhus.

We later learned that about a week ago, two people suffering from the same terrible disease had been thrown off the train.

The hospital, which is at the disposal of the doctor, consists of 4 or 4 small wooden buildings that can accommodate no more than 200 people. When we arrived, the patients were lying in three on a narrow bed, the corridors were filled with bodies lying on the cemented floor, on a bed of one blanket, with a folded blanket instead of a pillow and covered with a blanket, in one room, which should have accommodated 20 patients, their it was 52. It was hardly possible to pass between them without stepping on them. The sight and the atmosphere there are overwhelming.

Dr. Seleznev showed us his official report on the state of the hospital, emphasizing that, as I had heard before, during the weeks the train moved back and forth, passengers died every day from a variety of causes, including typhoid, dysentery, influenza and common starvation.

The people on the train were left for many weeks without hot food, boiled water, and many even without bread. Due to inadequate nutrition and excessive overcrowding of carriages, infectious diseases have appeared. In addition, there are various cutaneous diseases. I did not have time to count the number of illnesses these patients were afflicted with, because All the forces of the hospital are currently directed at washing all patients, cutting their hair and shaving them, supplying them with clean linen, tea, food and getting premises for them, because they come here in a continuous stream. As the train officers say, the chief

The station reports that he received an order to send the train west, but I am sure that among his passengers there are still a large number of people who are so exhausted and sick that their further stay in these cars will be fatal for them.

We are still holding the train here with the help of a Czech officer who has agreed to disable the locomotive if necessary, last night the stationmaster showed us a telegraph order for the train to leave at 1 a.m., but he is still here.

If the officer receives a telegraphic order to obey their orders, he will answer them that there are obstacles to the departure of the train, but that he is doing everything in his power to eliminate them. If this does not help, then he will obey the order and the train will be sent. He will walk 4 miles and then stop.

We fight by all means to get even the slightest chance to save miserable lives. Today in the hospital the situation is worse than ever - 4 have died, 3 are dying and more and more patients are arriving here. Now there are about 700 of them. We had to take away some old annex for the hospital, where 42 people are lying on a dirty floor, stretched out on straw, without pillows, in a room measuring 41 by 12 feet.

The latrines are terrible, defying description, even for Russia. It’s impossible to describe. Dr. Munget arrived last night and informed us that General Graves had a lengthy meeting with the Japanese and Russian commanders, who had assured him that they would help him with all the means at their disposal, but that it seemed to be of little use.

We're still holding the train here. For 450 rubles, we agreed with a bathhouse, located 3/4 of a mile from here, that tomorrow all those arrested would wash in the bathhouse. They will leave here at 6 o'clock in the morning and go to the bathhouse, where they will wash for 60 people at a time. Thus, it will all take 10 hours, and maybe more. Our wagon with things has already arrived, from all those arrested who go to the bathhouse in their contaminated clothes, their things will be taken away and burned, and each of them will receive a pair of socks, a sweater and a pair of nightwear in return. Then they will be placed in new wagons. The bosses do not give buckets; the law requires it, but we have to fight for it.

4 a.m. November 22. Now it is terribly cold, at night there was a strong blizzard. Strong went to the bathhouse at 5 o'clock to prepare everything, while Munget and Olson sleep in a warm room to be on hand when the first arrested arrive. I was left alone, my throat hurts, and I will only get up at 8 o'clock when the time comes to replace Strong.

They set off only at 7.30. since Lieutenant Novak could not earlier find the Red Cross wagons that had been moved at night.

8h 15m in the morning. I am now in the bathhouse, just replaced Strong, who went home for breakfast. The bath is already ready, and we are expecting the first batch. In the distance we see a group of people promoting

moving slowly, slowly and with great difficulty against the snow. Many stumble and others who are arrested have to support them. This party consists of 120 unfortunate people, guarded by 15 soldiers with loaded rifles, as if these poor people were able to escape or resist, even if they wanted to.

All they can do is walk.

The first 60 people entered and now a fire is burning in the courtyard, on which their disgusting clothes are burned. In the bathhouse, each of these unfortunates was given a bar of soap and now they are scrubbing themselves while the guards pull out their clothes and burn them at the stake. A cart arrived with 80 sweaters, 450 pairs of socks and 120 pairs of nightwear.

Tomorrow, when this train starts, it will have 925 red crosses, but I still have to call it the "train of death." It is useless to hide the fact that almost all of these people will soon die, because as soon as the train starts to move, the old conditions will be restored and again every day corpses will be thrown out of all the cars.

November 28. Today we leave for Vladivostok. We did our best. We just learned that 30 more cases of typhus were found in the hospital, and how many of them on the train are known only to heaven. We bought buckets and brooms for the wagons, which, perhaps, will help a little.

Later I left Nikolsk in a warm-room with 3 American soldiers. It was severe cold. We didn't have a stove, but we managed to keep warm by pushing each other, fighting and fighting from time to time. Finally, we arrived in Vladivostok at 0955 hours. I hope that I will be allowed to travel with Dr. Rosette to Siberia in search of other death trains.

We may have done little, but at least we saved several hundred human lives, at least for a while and an object lesson will be of value to the Russians.

Mr. Bakeli's prediction that the death train would remain a death train came true, when he was moving along the Siberian railway. road, first to the west, then to the east, then forward, then back, from city to city, to Vladivostok occasionally seeped in news about him. The official message of the Red Cross Commission on December 9 read: “We learned that the train with the arrested will be moved 10 miles from Nikolsk, due to the disturbance caused by their presence there, and will be left at this place, where we can monitor it all the time. position ".

On December 6, however, Colonel Emerson of the Russian railway. dor. Corps telegraphed from Harbin that the train, now consisting of 38 wagons with the arrested, had left Tizikar and headed for Chita. Thus, we received news that the so-called "death train" was on its way again and sent to Western Siberia.

Colonel Emerson said that the American consul in Harbin asked for a Russian general in command of the movement on the East China Railway. road, delay the train to Bukeda. The telegram said that if it was possible to detain this train and evacuate those arrested to the barracks occupied by the Japanese, then it would be possible to purchase

to drink in the vicinity a sufficient amount of food supplies for the sick, until the train from Vladivostok comes to the rescue.

According to another piece of news from December 5, the officers of the Russian railway. dor. corps in Titicare, it was proposed to go to Fevenor de and to small towns further to the east, tk. from the time the train left Nikolsk and the American Red Cross took care of its passengers there, the unfortunate arrested again fell victim to illness and deprivation and it was reported that 120 dangerously sick people in Titsikar, and after the train left Nikolsk, 15 people died.

There were 15 patients in the Russian convoy. The conditions inside and outside the carriages were indescribable, and the convoy was in a slightly better position than those arrested. Each carriage carried approximately 32-33 people.

Colonel Emerson's telegram described in detail the condition of each carriage, which, in terms of suffering and horror, was equal to the condition of the train upon its arrival at Nikolsk, when we paid attention to it. Local railways dor. the employees sent a fund to Harbin to buy food, and local Americans took part in this business. "Colonel Emerson said that these people need immediate help, otherwise they will all die.

The officers in command of the train received an order by telegraph not to drop off those arrested within Manchuria, but to take them to Chita, and in Harbin the officers were told that the sick would be taken care of at the hospital in Fevenordi, which is 12 versts (about 8 miles) west of Harbin.

It was just a ploy to get the train out of Harbin, as the hospital in Fevenordi was unable to receive and accommodate patients. The officers in charge of the train did not know at all what to do now, and simply moved from place to place.

The Siberian Commission immediately asked by telegraph if it would be possible to detain the train at any place in Mannchuria and evacuate people to the hospital. This was recognized by the medical bureau as the only remedy in the current situation, especially from the moment when it turned out that the entire train was infected with typhus, it poses a serious threat.

We hoped that some steps would be taken, but the next news was that the train was heading east, beyond Chita. Thus, 38 wagons with the arrested moved slowly from place to place, while the number of the dead and dying steadily increased, this is one of the illustrations of the situation in Siberia.

Another week. The Commission's message of December 16 reads “Tragic incidents in connection with the death train, first heard in Nikolsk, where it was cared for by the Red Cross, are increasing weekly.

Prior to rumors, this train was sent towards Chita last week, and the Red Cross made every effort to stop it in some place where the dying could

be evacuated to the hospital to bring help to the unfortunate people and prevent an epidemic from occurring.

Now it seems, after moving westward, the train turned again and headed for Vladivostok. "

On December 10, it was reported that on December 7, the passage passed the Manchuria station on the road to Chita, and that substantial assistance had been provided to the arrested at the Manchuria station. Local Americans from the army and Russian railways. dor. the servicemen procured food for them for one day, and the Japanese general was able to provide further assistance. Here the arrested were provided with medical assistance and food, and then the train set off further in the direction of Chita.

“Three days later, another telegram arrived, informing that the train had turned east again, and that it was apparently located near Tizikar in the middle of Manchuria on the Chinese railway. dor. Again, an attempt was made to stop him and provide medical assistance to his passengers. The situation is such that the train simply moves from place to place, because authorities everywhere refuse to allow those arrested to get off the train or train to stay within their territory. "

As the days and nights fly by, and the weeks add up to months, the number of unfortunate prisoners dwindles and dwindles, as death takes its cruel and incessant tribute.

From deaf Siberia came this heartbreaking story of suffering, so terrible in its ingenuity that you can hardly believe it.

Its significance at the present time is that for all its horrors, it reflects only a small part of the suffering that seems to have enveloped the whole world.

Distance, politics and censorship hid these gruesome pictures. What was Russia - all the way from the Baltic to the Yellow Sea - is a tragedy that anticipates the picture of the Last Judgment.

Mr. Buckley, the Red Cross worker who tells this story, was, until recently, a banker in Honolulu. He went to Siberia to provide all possible assistance to those in need. What he faced - just a drop in a huge ocean of misfortunes - sunk deep into his soul. He writes as a person exhausted and numb, unsettled by the very consciousness of a huge disaster, as if he himself were already doomed to death hovering around him.

In a manuscript delivered across the ocean to Red Cross Headquarters, he described the weight of it, recording in the evenings with mechanical precision what he witnessed during the day.

Decency required the elimination of many inappropriate for

print, but more than enough remains to convince the American people how spared we have been from universal grief, and to rebuke complacent people who shy away from making clothes for refugees; who think that with the victory the work of the Red Cross is over.

Journalist Sergei Sobolev spoke about the death of his wife under the wheels of a train. The author argues that officials are to blame for the death of people, who do not build normal crossings at level crossings. And statistics show: even where there are bridges, people run across the tracks in front of trains, trying to save time.

Data discrepancy

In the Moscow region, at a railway crossing at the Saltykovskaya station (Gorky direction of the Moscow railway), 25-year-old Yelena Soboleva died under the wheels of a train. Her husband - journalist and blogger Sergei Sobolev - wrote about this tragedy on their Facebook page, highlighting the problem of unsafe railway crossings, even if they are equipped with appropriate signals.

"On January 31, Acting Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov announced that the authorities are allocating additional funds for the construction of civilized underground and overhead passages. True, the development of the project will take three years. This is about 60 more corpses. It is very easy to find a 2010 video on the Internet. In the footage, some local bureaucrat says that the construction of the interchange will begin in 2012. As you understand, they have not even started preparatory work, "writes Sergei.

True, the Moscow Railway (MZhD) does not agree with such figures. They explain that "according to documented statistics, 4 cases of injury were recorded at this stopping point in 2012, and 2 cases in 2013". "Other data do not correspond to reality and are quoted from unverified sources," the Moscow Railways note.

In addition, they argue that the information about the promise of Russian Railways to build an underground or surface transition in this place does not correspond to reality. Perhaps we are talking about the opinion expressed to the media of one of the leaders of the urban district of Balashikha in 2010, posted on the Internet, they suggest in the department.

At the same time, they do not deny the need to build pedestrian crossings and car crossings of different levels. On terms of co-financing, these proposals promise to be implemented jointly with the governments of Moscow and the Moscow region.

"Watch out for the train!"

Posters with such calls can be seen at every station. However, those who travel by electric trains have probably more than once observed how free riders recklessly jump from platforms and cross paths, just to avoid turnstiles.

Also, people often die who cross railway tracks and even run across them in front of an approaching train, without looking around. Moreover, young people wearing headphones still do not hear sound signals or are dashingly playing "snares".

Fatalities also occur at regulated crossings, as happened with Elena Soboleva. Such cases, as a rule, happen to people who are in a hurry and run across the track at a red light, forgetting that the train is not a car. It cannot swerve or brake quickly. Hence the sad statistics, the numbers of which are growing from year to year.

So the young woman Elena Soboleva, as the railway workers say, died due to the fact that she "crossed the track at a prohibiting traffic light in front of a nearby train." These are the conclusions reached by employees of the Moscow Railways after an investigation conducted in conjunction with the police.

"To prevent the driver from hitting a pedestrian, emergency braking measures were taken, sound signals of increased volume and light signals were given by a searchlight. These data are confirmed by objective control devices installed on the electric train, which record important parameters of the trip," the press service of the Moscow Railways said.

True, as those who more than once had to cross the paths in this place write, there are two transitions here. "One is automobile and pedestrian, the other (from the other end of the platform) is purely pedestrian. There, obstruction signals are switched on long before the train passes. It turns out that restraining signals are lit almost always, and they are simply not paid attention to, - say the locals. - Accordingly, the question is: why are they so installed and configured? "

In addition, the interlocutors of Vesti.Ru emphasize, it is at this crossing that the high-speed branch makes a bend. "And this bend turns into a dead zone due to the fence: you won't understand whether the train is going there or not until you stick out your head ... which you can immediately blow off. As happened with Lena ( Sobolevoy). Her head was collected in pieces, "- say eyewitnesses of the tragedy." In Russian Railways they say that everything is in accordance with GOST. Is 30 people a year a death in accordance with GOST? "- local residents are indignant.

The railway workers, for their part, object: "This crossing is equipped with sound and light traffic signaling warning of the approach of a train. In addition, for the safe passage of citizens from the side of the tracks" to Moscow "and" from Moscow "there are storage areas with fencing, which allow to see an approaching train. At the crossing there is visual information with a warning about the danger of violation of the rules for staying on the railway tracks. "

When a hole in the fence replaces the passage

It is unlikely that anyone will argue that it is better to build overhead or underground crossings over railway tracks than not. But will they resolve the issue radically - taking into account the mentality of the majority of Russians, for whom it is more important to cross the path as soon as possible than their own safety?

If you drive along the Gorky direction from the Kurskaya station towards the region and carefully look around, you will notice: after the high-speed "Sapsan" began to walk here, many sections of the road were blocked by blank fences. However, soon enough holes were punctured in them so that it was possible not to go to the nearest passage - including the above-ground or underground one.

This, for example, happens at the Reutovo station, where there is an underground passage. There, on the right side of the railroad, a hole was punched in the fence and even steps were trampled down from the hill, which end exactly at the rails.

A similar picture is at the Elektrougli station. There is an overhead passage (bridge), and the paths are fenced off on one side by a blank fence, on the other by a lattice. But people who are always in a hurry have broken the bars of the lattice and continue to run across the railroad tracks. It's faster than climbing the bridge.

Empathizing with the relatives of people who died under the wheels of trains, the railway workers cite objective statistics. And it testifies to the fact that even if there are safe underground or overhead passages, they are used by a minimum number of passengers.

The liberation of the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945 by American troops went down in history as the "massacre at Dachau". And all because the soldiers, amazed by the massiveness and cruelty of the murders of prisoners, shot more than five hundred Nazis in the camp. Today, in our review, there are photos of prisoners who were lucky enough to wait for release.

The train of death was the name given to the train that left Weimar on 8 April 1945 to deliver prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp to Dachau. Due to delays caused by the Allied bombing, the train did not arrive at its destination until three weeks later. Many prisoners died on the way, and many of those who made it to this terrible place managed to survive - they were freed by units of the 45th Infantry Division of the 7th American Army.

1. Survivors

2. On the hill

3. Joyful release

Private John Lee was one of the first people to enter the camp. Later he said in his memoirs: “The carriages, pierced by bullets, were packed with people. Obviously, the train was under fire on its way to Dachau. The picture we saw was terrible: people torn to shreds, burned to the ground, starving to death. For a long time I could not forget this picture. It seemed that the dead were looking into our eyes with the question: "Why have you been taking so long?"

4. Help arrived on time

5. Group photo

6. Family

7. Why are you taking so long?

8. Railway to Magdeburg

Dachau's surviving prisoners included Albanian Ali Kuchi and Belgian Arthur Holo. Later they wrote the book "The Last Days of Dachau", in which they talked about all the horrors of the "Death Train". About 2,500 out of 6,000 made it to Dachau alive.

9. Facts on the face

10. USAF

11. They starved to death

12. Salvation

13. Humanity

Inside the concentration camp, the Americans saw such things, which made even experienced veterans hair stand up in horror. It seemed that they had ended up in a branch of hell on Earth, where absolute evil was happening, from contact with which any normal person immediately loses his mind. Actually, this is what happened to the American soldiers.

14. Helplessness

15. Huge composition

16. American liberators

The garrison commander, SS Lieutenant Heinrich Skodzenski, who commanded the camp for just over a day, was shot near one of the cars of the "death train", which was filled to the very roof with the corpses of killed concentration camp prisoners. Then the soldiers began to shoot the guards and all the German prisoners of war - 560 people were killed that day. This incident went down in history as the “massacre at Dachau”.

17. Dachau Death Train

Men and women fall to their knees and kiss the ground in disbelief.

20. Thank you so much

The emotional state and mental trauma that the soldiers received when they liberated concentration camps and found dead and exhausted victims of Nazism there are little reflected in American popular culture. A recent attempt to mention this layer of history was in the film "Isle of the Damned" based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, whose main character, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, suffers from nightmares, including those associated with the shooting of Dachau's guards.

Even through the prism of years, the story about.