died in the basements, a little later he learns that matevasyan is also alive, a letter arrives from makhnachns of new names appear, trips to brest become regular, smirnov knocks on the thresholds of military registration and enlistment offices, party and nomenklatura offices, some. he gets defenders out of prison, alexander mitropanovich fil was in prison, well, he was simply exiled, he was first in the extreme sphere in the camp, and then he stayed on audan, but he was still left with the cream of a traitor, although there was nothing like that in his fate it happened that he got petya klypa out of prison, but petya was in prison, he received 25 years, can you imagine, 25 years, for what, for not informing. the friend who committed the crime there is a boy from the bretz fortress, a hero among heroes, you know, and he was sentenced to 25 years. over the 9 years that smirnov gave to the brest fortress, he traveled throughout the soviet union, wrote thousands of letters and talked with hundreds of people, asked for details, wrote down a notebook, double-checked the facts, actually conducted h